At the end of last year and at the beginning of this year, our journal «Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriya 16. Biologiya» celebrated two memorable dates – the anniversary of the entire edition and the anniversary of our series. During its long history, the «Vestnik» of the School of Biology of Moscow State University has undergone many changes. The goals for which it was created used to be modified in the last 15 years, and now the journal is no longeran edition to cover the activities of just scientists working at Moscow State University, but is an international edition (the English version is distributed by the Springer Nature publishing house) and is open to publications by authors from any scientific institutions both in Russia and other countries. Despite the difficulties that any university editions face, such journals can still develop and occupy their niches among scientific periodicals. Like Chinese scientific editions of the kind, our domestic journals are now continuously working to gain worldwide recognition. In the future, all scientific periodicals are likely to continue to change and transform, the task of university journals is to be in time to develop along with new technologies, taking into account the experience of foreign editions and not forgetting their own rich history.