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Scientists from the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences conducted a unique study of wave processes in the Vilkitsky Strait, a key area of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) connecting the Kara Sea with the Laptev… 
On January 6, 2026 during a visit to India by A.G. Matul, Head of the Laboratory of Paleoecology and Biostratigraphy at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences, and Thamban Meloth, Director of the National Centre for… 
Preliminary results obtained during the 60th voyage of the R/V Akademik Nikolay Strakhov to the Barents Sea, which concluded in November, identified large sand ridges up to 8 meters high at sites near Kolguyev Island and the Kanin Peninsula, formed… 
On December 11, 2025 Acting Director of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Shevchenko and Secretary of the Party Committee of the Shandong University of Science and Technology (Qingdao, Shandong Province, P.R. China) Junsong Wang… 
At the personal invitation of the First Deputy Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region – Chairman of the Government of the Arkhangelsk Region A.V. Alsufyev and the Lomonosov Foundation (President of the Foundation, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences… 
By decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Valery Veniaminovich Kovalenko, a leading researcher at Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was awarded the medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland," 2nd class,… 
On November 13, Acting Director of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences V.P. Shevchenko and Chairman of the Board of the newly established Kazakh Scientific Research Institute of the Caspian Sea in Astana S.K. Akhmetov signed… 
On October 22, 2025, a popular science lecture entitled "Water Dynamics and Stock Dynamics: What Links Tides and Pollock Populations?" was held at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 
A joint team of scientists from Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Kamchatka branch of VNIRO discovered that the influence of the tides must be taken into account to accurately predict the abundance of…
