The article “Allele Diversity of the Major Histocompatibility Complex in the Common Hamster (Cricetus cricetus) in Urban and Rural Populations”, written by N. Y. Feoktistova, I. G. Meschersky, T. N. Karmanova, A. V. Gureeva, and A. V. Surov, was originally published electronically in Springer-Link on October 04, 2022 without Open Access. After publication in volume 49, issue 5, pages 428–437, the authors decided to make the article an Open Access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to © The Author(s) 2022 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, CC BY), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction of a work in any medium or format, as long as you cite the original author(s) and publication source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.