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April 9, 2025
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.
April 9, 2025
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!
April 7, 2025
“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.
April 3, 2025
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!
April 1, 2025
Scholarly geologists to give a series of lectures and master classes within the “Karelia. History in Stone” exhibition

The exhibition “Karelia. History in Stone” prepared by the Institute of Geology KarRC RAS is set to open at the National Library of the Republic of Karelia on April 6. It will introduce visitors to natural features found around Petrozavodsk: traces of volcanic eruptions, marine sediments and evidence of the origin of early life forms. During the month, scientists will be giving lectures and master classes at the library.
March 28, 2025
KarRC RAS signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the Bundelkhand University, India

Karelian Research Center is furthering its cooperation with Indian colleagues. On March 18, a Memorandum of Understanding between KarRC RAS and Bundelkhand University was signed in the city of Jhansi. KarRC RAS was represented at the ceremony by Deputy Director General Alexander Slabunov, who has been cooperating with scientists from India in the field of geology for many years. The new agreement is designed to scale this experience to other fields as well: water and climate change research, biology, mathematics, economics.
March 27, 2025
Hydrologists study the estuaries of rivers emptying into the White Sea to assess the ecological situation in its drainage basin

Specialists from the Northern Water Problems Institute KarRC RAS went on an expedition to the Belomorsk District of Karelia. Scientists took measurements of the physical and chemical parameters of under-ice water and ice in the mouth of the Nizhny Vyg River. This area is under pressure from the White Sea-Baltic Canal, and the observations are needed to assess the ecological situation and predict how it will change as shipping traffic increases.
March 26, 2025
New monograph by renowned oceanologist Nikolai Filatov recapitulates the results of his half-century work

The results of studies of water bodies on different continents - from America to Antarctica - were presented by Corr. Academician Nikolai Filatov at KarRC RAS Learned Council meeting. The scholar has contributed to the efforts to address the issue of preserving the resources of lakes Ladoga and Onego and reduction of the Caspian and Sevan levels, participated in designing the dam in the Gulf of Finland to protect St. Petersburg from floods, and in many other major tasks of great importance to people. Fifty years of research, more than 600 academic publications - all of that will be covered by Nikolai Filatov's new monograph.