"Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta" ("Herald of Moscow University") is one of the oldest scientific journal which was founded in November 1946. The original title of the journal is "Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriya 6. Biologiya i pochvovedenie" ("Herald of Moscow University. Series 6. Biology and Soil Science"), but in 1977 it was divided into two distinct series. Our series is "Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriya 16. Biologiya" ("Herald of Moscow University. Series 16. Biology"). In the same year journal has been published by the Allerton Press in English version of the journal and has been distributed by the internationally renowned company Springer. Since 2011, Moscow University Biological Sciences Bulletin (English edition of "Herald of Moscow University. Series 16. Biology") is present in Scopus databases, since 2015 "Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriya 16. Biologiya" is presented in the base of Russian Science Citation Index on the Web of Science platform.