Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
The Shirshov Institute of Oceanology 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. It is headquartered in Moscow. The institute is named after Pyotr Shirshov, who founded it in 1946.
Notable past or present researchers
Biologists
Climate scientists
Mathematicians
- Grigory Barenblatt
- Andrei Monin, Director of the Institute 1965-1987
Physical oceanographers
Others
- Anatoly Sagalevich, explorer and pilot of the MIR submersible to the seabed under the North Pole
- Alexander Gorodnitsky, poet and geologist
Fleet
- RV Akademik Ioffe
- RV Akademik Sergey Vavilov
- RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh
- RV Professor Shtokman
- RV Rift
- RV Akvanaft
- MIR (submersible)
- - not active since 1979; now a museum in Kaliningrad.