The main themes of Meeting - "Past, Present and Future of Eurasian marmots and the ecological aspects of the marmot dispersal in the Baikalian region" proposed to discuss broad scope both the theoretical problems related to study of marmots and the problems at the regional level having also practical meaning. The materials sent to Meeting correspond in whole to such division, and their geography was out of only the frame of CIS countries and the present issue consists also from the abstracts of the specialists from France, Italy, Nepal and USA.
  As traditional themes of Meeting some abstracts relate to the territorial distribution and current state of marmot number as the basis for the different species protection and rational management, and for constant monitoring of the epizootic situations within natural sources of the plague; marmot breeding in captivity allowed to elucidate the mechanisms of the relationships of individuals and their successful reproduction, to study nutrition in the whole and the requirements in necessary elements in particular. The results of the investigations of the demographic structure of the marmot localities and regularities of its change, the natural and anthropogenic factors effecting on them are presented; the prognostic models to restore the marmot resources basing on previously obtained knowledge have been proposed.
  The problem of marmot fauna biodiversity conservation exert the investigations of the taxonomic status, the hybridization and the speciation of marmots by the morphological, acoustic, molecular, genetic and other methods. The important role in marmot protection may play a new approach relate to the creation of marmot image in the human society which learn to be tolerant or sympathetic to these animals, the creation of the social structures, members of which unite by their relation to marmots, including by keeping the marmots under home conditions. From the next side, the presentations relate to marmot reintroduction aiming to restore their lost localities are getting few.