Аннотация:The gallery of sculptural portraits of outstanding scientists is a main part of the exposition in the Earth Sciences Museum of Moscow State University. Busts of researchers of fossil vertebrates (V.O. Kovalevsky, J. Czerski, A.A. Borisyak, F.N. Chernyshev, A.P. Karpinsky, L.S. Berg) are demonstrated in the museum halls and represent some pages in the history of vertebrate palaeontology in Russia.