The Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (

P.P. Shirshov Pyotr Petrovich Shirshov (russian: Пётр Петрович Ширшов; in Ekaterinoslav 17 February 1953 in Moscow) was a Soviet oceanographer, hydrobiologist, polar explorer, statesman, academician (1939), the first minister of Ministry ...

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-eigh ...

. 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 Igor Ivanovich Akimushkin (russian: link=no, Игорь Иванович Акимушкин) (May 1, 1929 – 1993) was a Soviet zoologist and writer. Born in Moscow, he graduated the biological faculty of Moscow State University in 1952. His fi ...

(d. 1993)

Climate scientists

Olga Zolina Olga Zolina (born 6 February 1975) is a climate scientist, member of the European Geosciences Union, German Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union. As of 2020, she was working at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology The Shir ...

Mathematicians

* Grigory Barenblatt (d. 2018) *

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

Physical oceanographers

* Leonid Brekhovskikh (d. 2005) *

Vladimir Shtokman Vladimir Borisovich Shtokman (russian: link=no, Владимир Борисович Штокман; 10 March 1909 – 14 June 1968) was a Soviet oceanographer and geophysicist. Early life Shtokman began his academic career in 1928, joining the f ...

(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 ''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 * 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 History (derived ) is the systematic study and 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