The Shirshov Institute of Oceanology ( P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (IO) RAN, russian: Федеральное государственное бюджетное учреждение науки Институт океанологии имени П. П. Ширшова Российской академии наук (ИО РАН) or Институт океанологии им. П. П. Ширшова РАН) is the premier research institution for ocean, climate, and earth science in

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-ei ...

. It was established in 1946 and is part of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

. It is headquartered in Moscow. The institute is named after Pyotr Shirshov, who founded it in 1946. Amongst others,

Andrei Monin Andrei Sergeevich Monin (russian: Андре́й Серге́евич Мо́нин; 2 July 1921 – 22 September 2007) was a Russian physicist, applied mathematician, and oceanographer. Monin was known for his contributions to statistical theory o ...

served as director.

Notable past or present researchers

Biologists

* Igor Akimushkin (d. 1993)

Climate scientists

* Olga Zolina

Mathematicians

Grigory Barenblatt Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (russian: Григо́рий Исаа́кович Баренблат; 10 July 1927 – 22 June 2018) was a Russian mathematician. Education Barenblatt graduated in 1950 from Moscow State University, Department of Me ...

(d. 2018) *

, Director of the Institute 1965-1987 (d. 2007)

Physical oceanographers

* Leonid Brekhovskikh (d. 2005) * Vladimir Shtokman (d. 1968)

Others

Anatoly Sagalevich Anatoly Mikhailovich Sagalevich (russian: Анатолий Михайлович Сагалевич; born 5 September 1938) is a Russian explorer, who works at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (USSR Academy ...

, explorer and pilot of the MIR submersible to the seabed under the North Pole (the

Arktika 2007 Arktika 2007 (russian: Российская полярная экспедиция "Арктика-2007") was a 2007 expedition in which Russia performed the first ever crewed descent to the ocean bottom at the North Pole, as part of research rela ...

project) * Alexander Gorodnitsky, poet and geologist

Fleet

* RV

Akademik Ioffe ''Akademik Ioffe'' is a research vessel, named after the Soviet physicist Abram Fedorovich Ioffe. Built in 1988, the vessel has a displacement of 6,600 tons, and a length of . ''Akademik Ioffe '' and ''Akademik Sergey Vavilov'' were built as a ...

( :ru:Академик Иоффе (судно)) * RV Akademik Sergey Vavilov * RV

Akademik Mstislav Keldysh The R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' (russian: Академик Мстислав Келдыш) is a 6,240 ton Russian scientific research vessel. It has made over 50 voyages, and is best known as the support vessel of the ''Mir'' submersibles. ...

* RV Professor Shtokman ( :ru:Профессор Штокман (судно)) * RV Rift * RV Akvanaft * MIR (submersible) * - not active since 1979; now a

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make th ...

Kaliningrad Kaliningrad ( ; rus, Калининград, p=kəlʲɪnʲɪnˈɡrat, links=y), until 1946 known as Königsberg (; rus, Кёнигсберг, Kyonigsberg, ˈkʲɵnʲɪɡzbɛrk; rus, Короле́вец, Korolevets), is the largest city and ...

References

External links

Official website
Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences Universities and institutes established in the Soviet Union Research institutes in the Soviet Union Educational institutions established in 1946 Earth science research institutes 1946 establishments in the Soviet Union Oceanographic organizations {{sci-org-stub