Institute of Forest SB RAS is the first academic institution of forest profile in Russia. It was founded in 1944 in Moscow by an outstanding native biologist academician Vladimir Nikolayevich Sukachev. The institute was named after him in 1967. In 1959 the Institute was joined in Siberian Branch of Academy of Sciences of the USSR and transferred to Krasnoyarsk. In various years the Institute was headed by academicians V.N.Sukachev (1944-1959), A.B.Zhukov (1959-1977), A.S.Isayev (1977-1988). Since 1994 the Institute has been headed by academician Y.A.Vaganov. Institute of Forest SB RAS is the largest forest-biologic institution in Russian Academy of Sciences. Its staff consists of 170 scientific researchers, 1 academician, 33 doctors and 95 candidates of sciences including. Among them there are 3 Honoured scientists of RF and 4 Honoured foresters of RF. More than 60 people ate taking Ph.D.