Var (department) France into the Zone libre, which included the Var department. The French Fleet was sabotaged in Toulon Harbour to keep it from falling into German hands. The Maquis Vallier, a group of maquis resistance fighters, was active. On 15 August 1944 American and Free French forces land at Saint-Tropez, Sainte-Maxime and Saint-Raphaël. The Free French fleet arrived at Toulon on 13 September. In the 1960s about one hundred thousand French citizens were repatriated from Algeria following the Algerian War of Independence and settled in the Var department. The department of Var has a surface area of 6,032 km, and 420
St. Petersburg University Museum of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology St. Petersburg University Museum of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology The St. Petersburg University Museum of Invertebrate Zoology is a study museum of marine zoology in St. Petersburg University founded in 1819. The first active Director (1833–1861) was Stepan Semyonovich Kutorga (1806–1861). The second (1862-1888) was Karl Fedorovich Kessler (1815–1881). The early marine collections are primarily from the Mediterranean due to associations with Stazione Zoologica in Naples and Villefranche Zoological Station in France. Later material is from the White Sea, Barents Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Caspian Sea, Black Sea and Red Sea as well as the oceans.The museum also