There is a field base of Institute of Taxonomy and Ecology of Animals (Russian: ???????? ??????????? ? ???????? ???????? ?? ??? ) by the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian: ????????? ????????? ?????????? ???????? ???? ) at the northwest part of the lake, about 6 km from head water of Biya River. Therein studies are performed of the insect-eaters and rodents of Altai Republic, helminthofauna of vertebrates in biocenoses of taiga, ichthyocenose and animal plankton of Lake Teletskoye. Near the base there is located the research-and-production sport-and-sanitary base of Gorno-Altaisk State University. Tomsk State University carries out its investigation more than 50 years. Many years here work ecologists from the Institute of Water and Ecological Problems (Russian: ???????? ?????? ? ????????????? ??????? ?? ??? ) by the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and also geologists and archeologists from the Academy. Geomorphologists and geologists scrutinize geological structure of Lake Teletskoye, its paleogeography, age, and origin.