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November 5, 2026

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November 6, 2026
Ethnologists of KarRC RAS release a popular-science book on the burial culture of Karelia

The book "Funeral Rites in Karelia" has been released by the well-known Russian publishing house MIF. Its authors are researchers from the Ethnology Section of the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History KarRC RAS, Alexei Konkka and Sergey Minvaleev. In this popular-science book, the Karelian scientists tell in simple language about the funeral ritualism – one of the spheres of traditional culture most resistant to change. The ethnologists have summarized archival and contemporary research on unique rituals and the Karelians' ideas about the world of the dead, and have also compared the funeral and memorial customs of different peoples and ethnic groups.
November 6, 2026
We congratulate Roman Obabko, Junior Researcher of the Laboratory of Boreal Forest Dynamics and Productivity of the Forest Research Institute KarRC RAS, on successful viva defense of his Candidate of Sciences dissertation!
November 4, 2026
Awards for KarRC RAS scientists

During a celebratory event held in the Noble Assembly Hall of the National Museum of Karelia on the eve of National Unity Day, the Head of Karelia, Artur Parfenchikov presented honorary titles, orders, medals and badges to distinguished residents of Karelia.
November 3, 2026
The first scientists to have defended dissertations before the new Dissertation Council at KarRC RAS get their Candidate of Sciences diplomas

Congratulations to Sergey Astafiev and Alexander Golovin, Junior Researcher at the Institute of Applied Mathematical Research KarRC RAS, on obtaining the Candidate of Sciences degree in physics and mathematics! Their vivas were the first to have been defended under the Dissertation Council set up at the Karelian Research Centre RAS this year.
November 2, 2026
Issue No. 9 of the journal Transaction of KarRC RAS, Limnology and Oceanology Series, is out of press

This year’s ninth issue of the journal Transactions of the Karelian Research Centre RAS, Limnology and Oceanology Series, has been released. It contains 13 articles structured into three sections: Hydrophysics & Hydrology; Hydrochemistry & Sediments; and Hydrobiology. They cover topics such as equilibrium density profiles and thermocline depth in lakes during the summer stratification, seasonal and spatial variability of water temperature and turbidity in a deep dimictic lake, features of the thermal and ice regimes of Lake Onego bays, sulfate reduction process in sediments of hydrographically connected boreal lakes Verkhneye and Nizhneye in the Arkhangelsk Region, and others.