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March 6, 2025

Women scientists at KarRC RAS receive government awards on the International Women’s Day eve

On March 6, the official ceremony of handing government awards to the best science, culture and art workers took place at the National Museum of Karelia. Scientists of the Karelian Research Center RAS Irma Mullonen and Natalya Kaznina were acknowledged by the decree of the Head of the region.

Artur Parfenchikov congratulated the scientists and praised their diligent work, high professionalism and contribution to the development of science over many years.

Irma Mullonen, Doctor of Philology, Corresponding Fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Principal Researcher of the Linguistics Section of the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History KarRC RAS was awarded the medal For Merit to the Republic of Karelia for great achievements and services to the Republic of Karelia and its residents in professional activities, in the conservation, development and popularization of historical and cultural heritage in the republic.

Irma Ivanovna is a well-known toponymist, specialist in Balto-Finnic linguistics, onomastics, language contacts and ethnolinguistics.

For many years of productive work, great contribution to the development of science, training and education of highly qualified personnel, the honorary title Honored Worker of Science of the Republic of Karelia was awarded to Natalya Kaznina - Doctor of Biology, Deputy Director for Science of the Institute of Biology KarRC RAS, Leading Researcher of the Laboratory of Plant Ecological Physiology of the Institute of Biology KarRC RAS.

The main research focus for Natalya Mstislavovna is the study of the phenomenology and mechanisms of heavy metal tolerance in plants. One of her recent papers investigates the effects of salicylic acid in improving the tolerance of soil micronutrient deficiency in grasses.

Congratulations to Irma Ivanovna and Natalya Mstislavovna!

Photo: Respublika Information Agency / Sergey Yudin

April 15th is the anniversary of Nina Nemova, RAS Academician, Research Area Leader at KarRC RAS. We cordially congratulate Nina Nikolaevna and with her health, longevity, and vigor! May your experience, wisdom and inexhaustible optimism continue to inspire yourself and your colleagues to new scientific discoveries!

April 11, 2025

The scientific approach to help provide the Karelian market with locally produced potatoes more efficiently

KarRC RAS scientists are working on a technology to ensure continuous supply of locally produced potatoes to the regional market. It is a pipeline of industrial-scale production of potatoes of different cultivars with different ripening dates. To this end, specialists of Vilga Agrotechnology Laboratory studied the released and introduced cultivars with high yield, marketability, average weight per tuber and determined the ones most suitable for our region.

April 10, 2025

Participants of the Winter Hands-on School in Limnology to assess water quality in lakes of the Kosmuksha area

Northern Water Problems Institute KarRC RAS is holding a Winter Hand-on School in Limnology. From April 6 to 11, lake-science beginners from Petrozavodsk and St. Petersburg and school teachers study the theoretical basics and get practical skills of research on the ice of lakes Kamennoye and Kontokki in the Kostomuksha Nature Reserve.

April 9, 2025

Marathon of Letters from the Frontlines written in Karelian and Vepsian continues

The Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History KarRC RAS continues collecting letters from/to the frontlines written in Karelian and Vepsian, stored in family archives, within the Marathon “Hengen vägi muaman kieles” - “Fortitude in the Native Tongue”. The campaign is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland and the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. Contributors are welcome to share their archival letters until April 15.

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