Scientific conference “Earth Sciences: Challenges for the Young” gathered beginner geologists from Petrozavodsk

The scientific conference of students and young scientists “Earth Sciences: Challenges for the Young” was held at the Karelian Research Center RAS. Year after year it has gathered beginner researchers in the field of geology. The conference participants are university students, doctoral students and laboratory assistants of scientific organizations and schoolchildren - members of the Archean Young Geologists Club. They carry out research projects under the guidance of the staff of the Institute of Geology KarRC RAS.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

“Karelia: History in Stone” exhibition opened by the Institute of Geology KarRC RAS in the National Library of Karelia

The Institute of Geology KarRC RAS presented an exposition on the formation history of the subsoil of modern Karelia. The exhibition opening was timed to the Geologist's Day, celebrated on the first Sunday of April. Visitors will be guided through the genesis of Karelia's minerals, time-traveling billions and hundreds of millions of years back.

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!