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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.

Two of the awards went to Karelian scientists, employees of the Karelian Research Centre RAS, Nadezhda Lobanova and Lydia Vetchinnikova.

Nadezhda Lobanova, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Senior Researcher at Archaeology Section, Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History KarRC RAS

Nadezhda Lobanova, a well-known archaeologist, Candidate of Historical Sciences, and Senior Researcher of the Archaeology Section at the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History KarRC RAS, was awarded the Medal of Merit for the Republic of Karelia.

Lydia Vetchinnikova, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Chief Researcher at the Laboratory of Forest Biotechnologies, Forest Research Institute KarRC RAS

The title of a Merited Scientist was conferred on Lydia Vetchinnikova, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Chief Researcher and Head of the Laboratory of Forest Biotechnologies at the Forest Research Institute of the Karelian Research Centre RAS.

Most cordial congratulations to our colleagues!

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 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.

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