Concept information
Preferred term
RU/RAS/SIO
Definition
- The P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (formerly of the USSR Academy of Sciences) was established on January 31, 1946, by a resolution of the Presidium ol' the USSR Academy of Sciences on the basis of the Laboratory of Oceanology set up in 1941. The resolution of the Presidium defined the Institute's main functions as research into theoretical problems of oceanology, complex investigation of physical, chemical, biological and geological processes in the seas and oceans as an interrelated entirety. Together with P.P.Shirshov, the Institute's first Director, the well-known scientists like L.A.Zenkevich, V.G.Bogorov, S.VBruyevich, A.D.Dobrovolsky, P.L.Bezrukov, I.D.Papanin, V.B.Shtockman and others, most of them young enthusiastic researchers, took an active part in the formation of the Institute of Oceanology. In 1949, the Institute obtained its first research vessel "Vityaz" (displacement: 5710 tons) re-equipped specifically for ocean studies, which became, in essence, a floating research institute. Practically all scientific activity of the Institute during the ensuing decades was based on the unique data collected by 236 expeditions of the now legendary "Vityaz". Starting with comprehensive investigations in the Far-Eastern seas, the "Vityaz" soon came out into the vasts of the Pacific and the Indian oceans and completed her glorious expeditions in the Atlantic Ocean. Now the ship is at her eternal. mooring at the port of Kaliningrad as part of the World Ocean Museum. Year by year the Institute's research fleet kept growing to incorporate new large-capacity vessels "Akademik Kurchatov", "Dmitry Mendeleev", "Akademik Mstislav Keldysh", "Professor Shtockman", "Rift" and then a new "Vityaz" and the acoustic vessels "Akademik Sergei Vavilov" and "Akademik loffe" fitted up with modern research equipment, as well as small-capacity vessels. The Institute owns 5 manned underwater research vehicles - two "MIR" submersibles capable of diving to a depth of 6 km, two "PISCES" submersibles (to a depth of 2 km) and an "Argus" vehicle (to a depth of 600 m). The Institute's marine expeditions, the basis of its scientific activity, have covered almost the whole World Ocean area from the Arctic regions to Antarctica, all the oceans and most of the sea basins of the Earth. Studies in them have involved all the main fields of ocean science and have resulted in many outstanding discoveries. At the present time the Institute of Oceanology is a large scientific centre with 800 research associates and over-all staff of more than 2,000 members (crews of research vessels included). The Institute is capable of conducting theoretical and experimental research into a variety of processes and phenomena in the World Ocean. In addition to the major research centre in Moscow, the Institute has two departments - the Atlantic in Kaliningrad and the Southern near Gelendjik on the Black Sea coast, as well as a branch in St.-Petersburg. Working in close contact with the Moscow centre they carry out independent studies and serve as bases for research vessels. Website: "http://www.sio.rssi.ru/" [Summary provided by P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Science.] (en)
Broader concept
- RUSSIA (en)
URI
https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/74667bc8-4e5a-4476-b46e-890b813bca4d
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