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April 3, 2025
Projects of Karelian scientists win grant competitions of the Russian Science Foundation

The Russian Science Foundation has just published the results its competition for individual research teams. The project “Prospects of using bottom sediments from fish farms in northern regions of Russia to enhance soil fertility and crop yields”, in which KarRC RAS Director General, Corresponding Academician Olga Bakhmet is the Leader, received grant support. Congratulations!
On April 2, the Russian Science Foundation published the results of the grant competition for basic research projects and exploratory research projects by individual research teams. The competition received 4 491 applications and 534 projects were granted support based on expert review criteria. One of the winning projects is a study supervised by KarRC RAS Director General, Corresponding Academician Olga Bakhmet on “Prospects of using bottom sediments from fish farms in northern regions of Russia to enhance soil fertility and crop yields”.

In March, the Russian Science Foundation also announced the results of several competitions, including “Conducting research using available world-class scientific infrastructure”. The competition received 398 applications and 101 projects were granted support based on expert review criteria. One of the winners was the project “The Language of 17th-19th cc. Balto-Finnic Writing Heritage: Integrated Analysis on the Basis of the LingvoDoc Linguistic Platform”, which will be implemented with the help of the Computing Resources and Competence Sharing Center of the RAS Institute for System Programming. The Project Leader is the Director of the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History KarRC RAS Irina Novak.

We congratulate the project leaders on receiving the grants and wish success in their research!

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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.
April 9, 2025
This April 9 is the anniversary of Nikolai Filatov, Corresponding Fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Geography. We congratulate Nikolai Nikolaevich on his 80th anniversary and wish him vigor, sound health and new achievements in science!