Russian Institute of Medical Primatology

The Russian Institute of Medical Primatology (RIMP) (Russian: НАУЧНО-ИССЛЕДОВАТЕЛЬСКИЙ ИНСТИТУТ МЕДИЦИНСКОЙ ПРИМАТОЛОГИИ) near Sochi (originally the Sukhum Primate Station, established at Sukhum, Abkhasia, Georgia SSR in 1927)[1] is a historically significant biomedical research center.

"[3] The Sochi facility has microbiology, anatomy, pathology, cancer biology, and "colony management and behavior" laboratories and is situated on a 100 ha (1.0 km2; 0.39 sq mi) site that includes indoor and outdoor enclosures for the monkeys.

[2][4] A 1956 visit to the lab by Paul Dudley White and subsequent report to the U.S. Congress led to the creation of the several U.S.

[1] Prior to the War in Abkhazia (1992–1993), there were 7,000 animals at the lab but only 300 survived and the researchers moved to Sochi by the end of the decade.

"[2] In 1963, director Boris A. Lapin [ru] cowrote the first textbook on primate pathology with L. A.