Saint-Tropez Saint-Tropez Saint-Tropez (; "" in Provençal dialect) is a town on the French Riviera, west of Nice in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. Saint-Tropez was a military stronghold and fishing village until the beginning of the 20th century. It was the first town on this coast to be liberated during World War II as part of Operation Dragoon. After the war, it became an internationally known seaside resort, renowned principally because of the influx of artists of the French New Wave in cinema and the Yé-yé movement in music. It later became a resort
St. Petersburg University Museum of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology contains 4,500 bird skins (1,100 species) and 1,160 recordings of birds sounds. The address is Zoological Museum, Depts of Vertebrate and Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences, St Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, 199034 Sankt-Peterburg, Russia 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