Проекты mvk на северном полюсе

State scientific center of The Russian Federation – The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute belongs to the Russian Federal service on environment hydrometeorology and monitoring. It is the oldest and the largest Russian research institute that is involved in the complex study of Polar Regions.

The history of the institute began in 1920, when The North Scientific Field Expedition was organized. In 1925, the expedition was transformed into The North Study Institute. Since 1930, the Institute has been called Arctic Research Institute. In 1958, the institute was empowered by the government to organize and co-ordinate national research studies in the Antarctic, and because of this, it got the name of The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. In 1963, the government decided that the Institute would be subjected to the main Hydrometeorological service management (present Russian Federal service on environment hydrometeorology and monitoring). In 1994, The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute got the status of State scientific center of the Russian Federation. Frolov Ivan Evgenievich has been the head of the Institute since 1992 and still remains to this day.

The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute consists of 17 scientific subdivisions and The Arctic and Antarctic Museum. Along with scientific departments it includes the Center of ice and hydrometeorological information, World data center of sea ice, Russian Antarctic Expedition (RAE), research and experimental base, Arctic and Antarctic stations, “Ladozhskaya” and “Gorky” stations (near Saint-Petersburg), scientific expeditionary fleet, including a unique vessel of the ice-breaking type the “Academician Fyodorov”, a specialized ice basin and an experimental production complex on development and the manufacture of research instruments.

The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute conducts complex research works in the Arctic and Antarctic in the field of oceanography, physics of ice (sample of research subject – Bering Sea hummocked ice), ocean and land waters, meteorology, interaction between ocean and the atmosphere, geophysics, water ice study, glaciology, polar geography, hydrochemistry, hydrology of estuaries and water resources, ecology, interaction between vessel hull or other engineering constructions and ice, and polar medicine.

The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute carries out scientific and applied developments, full-scale experiments aimed at: the complex development of fundamental scientific knowledge about processes that take place in the Arctic and Antarctic natural environments(ice cover, ocean, land waters, estuaries, the atmosphere, upper atmosphere, and ionosphere) and interconnections between these environments, development of new technical means and technologies for contact and distant metering of studied environment parameters, collection, accumulation, analysis and diffusion of data on environment conditions and changes, including the ones, affected by man′s impact, transboundary transports and climate changes, hydrometeorological, geophysical and ecological provision (including operative provision) of polar regions with economical and defensive activity of Russia, including provision with works in the Arctic shelf; planning, co-ordination of complex scientific expeditionary research works in the Arctic and Antarctic, using scientific vessels, aviation, polar stations and other means; preparation of high-qualified research personnel.

The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute possesses high scientific, scientific and technical, information potential and a large body of highly-qualified specialists. The activity of The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute is based upon large-scale studies of ice, ocean, atmosphere, geophysical and other processes, accumulated since the 20th century. They are organized as automated question-answering systems, including data bases, models, methods of calculations and forecasts of condition and changes of natural environments and assessment of climate changes and ecological conditions of the Polar Regions.

With extensive experience in conducting subject and expeditionary works in the Arctic and Antarctic, The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute is able to solve in an advanced way almost all the tasks on research of the natural environment of polar areas and also meets the needs of interested sectors of the national economy and defenсe. The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute has well developed contacts with the scientific and economical enterprises working in the Arctic and Antarctic.

World fame allows The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute to handle bipartite active co-operation with centers and institutes of the USA, Canada, Norway, Germany etc., and also to take part in international projects, expeditions, symposiums, work groups, committees and commissions, connected with the exploration of polar areas.

Contact:
Address: 38 Beringa st, St.-Petersburg, 199397, Russia
Telex: 321669 NILAS
Fax: (812) 352-26-88