PERMAFROST INSTITUTE
Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Division
VISIT CARD
Institute of geological sciences
Institute
of cosmophysical
research and aeronomics
Institute
of physico-engineering
problems of the north
Institute
of nonmetallic
materials
Institute
of northern
minorities problems
Yakut
internetional
center for development
of the northern territories
Scientific
technological
complex
Permafrost
Institute of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
677010, Yakutsk, 10, Permafrost Institute telegraphic address: Yakutsk, 10,
merzlota
Fax: (095)-230-29-19 Yakutsk, merzlota E-mail: lans@imzran.yacc.yakutia.su
The Director of the Institute is Member of the
International Engineering Academy
and the Academy of Sciences of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Doctor of Engineering
Rostislav M.Kamensky
Deputy Director on science, Corresponding
Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy
Veniamin T.Balobaev
Deputy Director on science, Candidate of Geology and Mineralogy
Stanislav I.Zabolotnic
Scientific secretary, Candidate of Engineering
Afanasy A.Mandarov
The Director of the Institute is Member of the
International Engineering Academy and the Academy of Sciences of the Sakha Republic
(Yakutia), Doctor of Engineering
Rostislav M.Kamensky
The staff of the Institute consists of 344 people, including
105 research workers. Among them are 13 Doctors of Sciences and 45 Candidates of Sciences.
The Institute comprises 7 scientific laboratories in Yakutsk and 5 regional divisions:
Viluiskaya (Chernyshevsky district, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Igarskaya (Krasnoyarsk
Territory), and North-Eastern (Magadan) scientific-research permafrost stations, the Chita
department of permafrost study, and the Kazakhstan (Alma-Ata) alpine permafrost
laboratory.
Year of foundation: 1941 - the Yakut scientific-research
permafrost station of the Permafrost Institute after V.A.Obruchev of the USSR Academy of
Sciences, 1956 - the North-Eastern division of the Permafrost Institute after V.A.Obruchev
of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1960 - the Permafrost Institute of the Siberian Division
of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1995- the Permafrost Institute after Academician
P.I.Melriikov of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Directors of the Institute: From 1940 to 1988- Member of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federate Soviet Socialist
Republic and the Yakut Autonomic Soviet Socialist Republic, Pavel I.Melnikdv, from 1989
till the present - Member of the International Engineering Academy and the Academy of
Sciences of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Honored Scientist of the Sakha
Republic(Yakutia), Doctor of Engineering Rostislav M.Kamensky.
Great contribution to the development of permafrost study was made by famous
scientists who worked or are currently working in the Institute: Academician P.I.Melnikov,
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences V.T.Balobaev, Doctors of Sciences
N.P.Anisimova,F.E.Are,K.F.Voitkovsky, M.K.Gavrilova, U.M.Goncharov, N.A.Grave,
S.E.Grechishchev, R.M.Kamensky, S.P.Kachurin, I.A.Nekrasov, A.V.Pavlov, G.Z.Perlshtein,
N.I.Saltykov, V.A.Sukhodrovsky, V.V.Shepelev, Candidates of Sciences I.N.Votyakov,
G.F.Gravis, N.F.Grigoryev, A.I.Efimov, A.F.Zilberbord, E.M.Katasonov, and others.
For significant contribution to the development of the country's science and for
training of highly skilled scientific personnel in 1969 the Institute was awarded the
Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
The Institute's major lines of investigation are the following:
-comprehensive permafrost studies in regions of intensive
development of national economy;
-laws of underground waters formation in the cryolithic zone, methods of their
evaluation;
-development of the theory of heat and mass exchange in frozen and melting rocks.
Geothermy of the current condition and dynamics of temperature field of the
cryolithic zone, thermal laws of cryogenic processes; development of theoretical and
methodical bases for rational environmental management and nature protection in the zone
of permanently frozen rocks.