On the eve of Victory Day, the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences held the "Immortal Regiment" campaign for the first time. The institute's employees took an active part in the event, bringing portraits of their relatives…
As part of the academic exchange between Russia and China, four scientists from Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences presented reports on the results and prospects of research of the mesophotic zone of the ocean.
Scientists from Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences have completed processing the results of an expedition to the Black Sea, the purpose of which was to study the consequences of the largest environmental disaster in the…
An interesting article on marine technology by a young team of authors from the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences was published in the prestigious and iconic journal Oceanography of the Oceanographic Society of the United States…
Congratulations to: Viktor Zhurbas, Konstantin Lebedev, and Natalia Kuzmina, whose paper "Is There an Equatorial Water Mass in the Atlantic Ocean?" was recognized as the most viewed article among papers published in the Wiley journal Geophysical Research Letters between January…
The first meeting of the Interdepartmental Expert Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Marine Research Fleet and Marine Expeditions, chaired by the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician Gennady Krasnikov, was held at the Russian…
On April 10, a seminar was held at the Steppe Institute of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the problem of climate change and control of the carbon balance of Russia, at which Sergei Konstantinovich Gulev,…
This is the conclusion reached by scientists from Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, after analyzing the features of changes in the duration of winter in the Russian Arctic over the past 60 years. The Arctic is…
On April 1, 2025, a meeting of the "Physics of the Sea" section was held at Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, organized by the Department of Thermohydromechanics of the Ocean as part of the 67th…
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
It is the largest Russian research center in the field of oceanology
The Institute conducts large-scale research in the World ocean, including
• North Atlantic • South Atlantic • Arctic seas • Baltic Sea
The IO RAS has 1269 employees, including:
• 116 Doctors of Sciences • 262 PhDs • 2 Academicians of RAS • 6 Corresponding Members of the RAS • 2 honorary Professors of RAS
Many Institute employees are world leaders in their fields.
The Institute has made a huge contribution to the domestic and world science of the Ocean. Discoveries here:
• Synoptic eddies in the Ocean • The phenomenon of fine-grained movement of water in the Ocean • The phenomenon of formation of modern phosphorites in upwelling zones on the ocean shelves
The Institute is located in Moscow and has 5 regional branches in