The Shirshov Institute of Oceanology ( P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (IO) RAN, ) is the premier research institution for ocean, climate, and earth science in Russia. It was established in 1946 and is part of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such ...

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

Notable past or present researchers

Biologists

* Igor Akimushkin (d. 1993)

Climate scientists

* Olga Zolina

Mathematicians

* Grigory Barenblatt (d. 2018) * Andrei Monin, Director of the Institute 1965-1987 (d. 2007)

Physical oceanographers

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

Others

* Anatoly Sagalevich, explorer and pilot of the MIR submersible to the seabed under the North Pole (the Arktika 2007 project) * Alexander Gorodnitsky, poet and geologist

Fleet

* RV Akademik Ioffe ( :ru:Академик Иоффе (судно)) * RV Akademik Sergey Vavilov * RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh * RV Professor Shtokman ( :ru:Профессор Штокман (судно)) * RV Rift * RV Akvanaft * MIR (submersible) * - not active since 1979; now a

museum A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...

Kaliningrad Kaliningrad,. known as Königsberg; ; . until 1946, is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, an Enclave and exclave, exclave of Russia between Lithuania and Poland ( west of the bulk of Russia), located on the Prego ...

References

External links

Official website
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