The science-to-practice seminar "Integrated Development of Arctic Territories: Expert Opinion" was held at KarRC RAS. It is meant to become a regular event. In this first meeting, scientists presented the results of research on modernization of single-industry towns, studies of human capital in the Arctic, as well as the consequences of the coronavirus infection among Karelian citizens.

The open Veps and Karelian corpus VepKar was supplemented with audio recordings of words in the Mikhailovsky dialect of the Ludic supradialect. Employees of the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History KarRC RAS visited the village of Mikhailovskoye and recorded new material from a native speaker. Scientists are creating an audio map of the Balto-Finnic languages of Karelia and neighboring regions, containing fragments of Veps and Karelian dialectal speech. Dictionary entries in VepKar can now be not only read, but also listened to.

Specialists from the Institute of Geology KarRC RAS participate in studying the graphite deposit at Kirjavalahti area in the Sortavala District. Geologists are expected to estimate the reserves of this mineral. Global demand for industrial concentrates of graphite, which is used in high-tech industries, such as the production of electric vehicle batteries, is growing.

Scientists will be digitizing data from many years of bird surveys. They will be unified and compared with modern data for Karelia, on the one hand, and with information for the same period in neighboring countries, on the other. A new project initiated by ornithologists from KarRC RAS will help to understand how the numbers and species composition of birds in the republic have changed over the last half century and to identify the regional differences related to human activities and climate change.

Projects submitted by scientists from the Karelian Research Center RAS were supported by grants from the Russian Science Foundation, based on the results of the 2023 competition for separate research groups.
Congratulations to the winners!

Staff of the Institute of Geology KarRC RAS implement GeoKarelia youth project. Scientists give open lessons and career guidance classes for schoolchildren, guide tours of the Museum of Precambrian Geology, make popular science videos, and supervise children's research projects. On the eve of the Geologist's Day the project participants tell about what they do.

Congratulations to Aleksey Tarasov, Head and Senior Researcher of the Archaeology Section of the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History KarRC RAS, on successfully defending the Doctor of Sciences dissertation!

Over a thousand scientific publications on 246 research themes were produced by staff of the institutes of the Karelian Research Centre RAS in 2022. The main results of the scientific and administrative activities of KarRC RAS in the past year were presented at the Learned Council session by the Center's Director General, RAS Corresponding Academician Olga Bakhmet.

Karelian scientists returned from an expedition based at the White Sea Biological Research Station of the RAS Zoological Institute on Cape Kartesh in the Gulf of Kandalaksha. The researchers collected new data needed to create the first numerical model of the White Sea ice ecology. This development can be used in basic science as well as for practical purposes, such as navigation, construction of Arctic infrastructure, development of aquaculture, and forecasting the consequences of human impact.

Olga Bakhmet, KarRC RAS Director General, took part in the plenary session of the Baltic Sea Day (St. Petersburg) as a member of the Scientific Council of the National Committee on BRICS Research. She presented the areas included in the priority agenda of this interstate association concerning scientific research and environmental protection. She also announced the first regional research conference in the framework of BRICS cooperation to be held in Petrozavodsk this summer.