Sergey Zimov

Sergey Aphanasievich Zimov
S.A. Zimov overlooking the Siberian landscape
Born	July 1955
Residence	Sakha Republic, Russia
Institutions	Northeast Science Station, Cherskii, RU
Alma mater	Far East State University, Vladivostok, Russia
Known for	The Northeast Science Station, , global carbon and methane cycles, ecosystem reconstruction
Notable awards	Wolf Vishniac Award (1991)

Sergey Aphanasievich Zimov (Russian: Сергей Афанасьевич Зимов) is a Russian scientist. He is a geophysicist who specialises in arctic and subarctic ecology. He is the Director of Northeast Scientific Station (a research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences), a senior research fellow of the Pacific Institute for Geography (an institute within the Far East Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FED RAS)), and one of the founders of (a 160 km² wildlife preserve and a research substation of the Northeast Scientific Station). He is best known for his work in advocating the theory that human overhunting of large herbivores during the caused Siberia's grassland-steppe ecosystem to disappear and for raising awareness as to the important roles permafrost and thermokarst lakes play in the global carbon cycle.

According to a colleague, Sergey Zimov is the most cited Russian earth scientist.

Sergei Zimov is a Russian scientist who resides in Cherskii, Sakha Republic, Russia. He studied and received his degree in geophysics from Far East State University, located in Vladivostok, Russia.

Zimov founded the Northeast Science Station near Cherskii in 1977. Twelve years later, in 1988, he initiated the project. In 1991, Sergei Zimov was awarded the Wolf Vishniac Award at the tenth International Symposium On Environmental Biogeochemistry (ISEB).