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October 23, 2024
One of the country’s largest conferences on Finno-Ugric studies, Bubrikh’s Readings, opened in Petrozavodsk for the 20th time

The 20th Bubrikh’s Readings Conference started at the Petrozavodsk State University the day before. Its theme this year is “Traditions and novelties in Finno-Ugric language and culture studies”. The forum has gathered specialists from all Finno-Ugric republics of the country, as well as from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Yakutsk, Tver and Murmansk. Scientists are recapitulating on the results achieved in their field over a quarter century and charting the joint trajectory for the future.
October 22, 2024
Analysis of satellite imagery shows how mining impacts landscapes

The mining industry has a huge impact on the environment. Natalya Krutskikh, Head of the Geoinformation Center at the Institute of Geology KarRC RAS, has designed and tested a system for analyzing the severity of this impact using remote sensing methods. Having studied satellite images, she assessed how the landscape, including forests and water bodies, has changed in the Kostomuksha iron ore deposit area.
October 17, 2024
A new area for classes within the “Ticket to the Future” project was presented at KarRC RAS

Classes within the federal project “Ticket to the Future” started at the Karelian Research Center RAS. Participating in this project, schoolchildren can learn, first-hand, about the work of an analytical chemist, chemical analysis laboratory technician, geologist-mineralogist, and archaeologist. This year scientists present a new area of career guidance: familiarization with the work of a geneticist and molecular biologist. The first to attend a class were 8th grade students of Secondary General Education School No. 3 with Advanced Study of Foreign Languages in Petrozavodsk.
October 15, 2024
Corresponding Academician Olga Bakhmet: “There is demand for a joint research funding program for scientists from Russian and Belarus”

KarRC RAS Director General Olga Bakhmet took part in the Strategic Forum-2024 held in St. Petersburg on October 10-11. The director acted as a panelist at the sessions devoted to cooperation between regions of Russia and Belarus, as well as green investments and public-private partnership for sustainable development of cities and regions. During the former, Corresponding Academician emphasized the need to establish a joint research funding program for scientists from Russia and Belarus.
October 14, 2024
Plant physiologists deliver successfully at a conference in Yekaterinburg

Researchers from the Karelian Research Center RAS took part in the annual assembly of the Russian Society of Plant Physiologists (SPP). This year, the event was hosted by the Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg. Scientists from the Institute of Biology and the Forest Research Institute KarRC RAS delivered 11 presentations, some of which were prepared by young scientists.
October 11, 2024
Geological local science conference opened at KarRC RAS

The Institute of Geology of the Karelian Research Center RAS became the venue for the conference “Geological and Mining Heritage of Karelia in Education, Museums and Tourism”. Students and schoolchildren, local lore experts, tour guides, representatives of various organizations listened to 20 presentations on unique sites in Karelia, their study and popularization of geological knowledge.
October 10, 2024
13th Arsenyev’s Readings conference on economic geography started at KarRC RAS

Arsenyev's Readings, a traditional conference dealing with questions of economic geography and spatial development statistics, started at the Karelian Research Center RAS. It is held biennially by the Institute of Economics KarRC RAS. This year the conference is timed to the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the 235th anniversary of birth of Academician Konstantin Arsenyev. “Thanks to him Petrozavodsk and Karelia can be considered the birthplace of Russian statistics and the place where the world-famous Russian economic geography school was born”, - noted Director of the Institute of Economics KarRC RAS Tatyana Morozova.
October 9, 2024
Karelian scientists survey villages in the Kondopoga District of Karelia

Scientists at the Karelian Research Center RAS continue their work on stuffing the audio map of the VepKar language corpus. At the end of September they visited 12 settlements in the Kondopoga District of Karelia. During the expedition they recorded 10 hours of audio fragments of Karelian and Russian speech, collected material on folk beliefs, and investigated the tourist potential of the areas. The activities were conducted within a project supported by the Russian Geographical Society.
October 7, 2024
Experts elucidate how businesses, authorities and citizens interact for ecological wellbeing of Arctic urban communities

Ecological wellbeing of Arctic territories and socio-economic aspects of their sustainable development are in the focus of attention of scientists at the Karelian Research Centre RAS. Economists are investigating how businesses, authorities and citizens view their responsibility for environmental pollution and what practices they use to safeguard the environment. The researchers have already visited towns and cities in the Nenets Autonomous District and the Komi Republic.
October 4, 2024
Career-guidance tours to be given to schoolchildren at KarRC RAS

Karelian Research Center RAS once again joined in the annual federal career guidance project for schoolchildren “Ticket to the Future”. Children will get acquainted with the work of scientists in different fields of science from October 7 to November 23.
October 2, 2024
Young geologists from different cities gather for a traditional conference at KarRC RAS

The scientific youth school and conference “Hot topics of geology, geophysics and geoecology" started in Petrozavodsk. The conference dedicated to the memory of outstanding scientists Kauko Kratz and Felix Mitrofanov is a traditional and important event for geological science. More than 50 participants from Petrozavodsk, St. Petersburg, Apatity, Tomsk, Voronezh, Moscow and Kazan will share the results of their work and exchange experience in academic writing.
September 30, 2024
Transactions of KarRC RAS Journal included in RSCI core

The Journal “Transaction of KarRC RAS” has been included in RSCI core. This means that after strict selection by experts, the outlet was listed among the most reputable journals that constitute the core of the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). Many Russian journals from RSCI core are indexed in foreign scientometric databases Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus. This, as it is commonly believed, improves the evaluation of the scientific articles published therein.
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