Glaciology Department
Kutuzov Stanislav, Ph.D. - Head of Department
Phone: +7(495)125-90-11
E-MAIL: s.kutuzov [at] gmail [dot] com
Department of Physical Geography and Environmental Management Problems
Lobkovsky Vasiliy, Ph.D. -
Phone: +7(499)129-28-31
E-MAIL: lva74 [at] mail [dot] ru
Nekrich Alina, Ph.D. - Scientific Secretary
Phone: +7(495)959-00-27
E-MAIL: nekrichalina [at] yahoo [dot] com
Department of Social and Economical Geography
Streletsky Vladimir, D.Sc. - Head of Department
Phone: +7-495-959-00-25
E-MAIL: vstreletski [at] igras [dot] ru
Averkieva Ksenia, Ph.D. - Scientific Secretary
Phone: +7(495)959-00-25
E-MAIL: xsenics [at] ya [dot] ru
Laboratory of Biogeography
Tishkov Arkady Alexandrovich, D.Sc. - Head of Laboratory
Phone: +7 495 959 00 40
E-MAIL: tishkov [at] biodat [dot] ru
Tsarevskaya Nadezhda, D.Sc. - Scientific Secretary
Phone: +7 495 959-00-16
E-MAIL: biogeo [at] igras [dot] geonet [dot] ru
Laboratory of Geography of World Development
Sintserov Leonid Mihaylovich, D.Sc. - Head of Laboratory
Phone: +7 499 122-17-76
E-MAIL: sintserov [at] mail [dot] ru
Dmitriev Ruslan, D.Sc. - Scientific Secretary
Phone: +7(495)959-37-43
E-MAIL: dmitrievrv [at] yandex [dot] ru
The laboratory studies a wide range of problems within the framework of geography of the modern world economy and world development: various aspects of industrial geography and geography of agriculture, diffusion of information technologies, spatial pattern of FDI and transnational business, international migration and urbanization, problems of global integration and globalization as a historical phenomenon, regional development in foreign countries, etc
Department of Soil Geography and Evolution
Goryachkin Sergey, D.Sc. - Head of Department
Phone: +7 495 959-37-86
E-MAIL: goryachkin [at] igras [dot] ru
Zamotaev Igor, D.Sc. - Deputy Head of Department
Phone: +7(495)959-37-86
E-MAIL: zamotaev [at] igras [dot] ru
Dolgikh Andrey - Scientific Secretary
Phone: +7(495)959-37-86
E-MAIL: dolgikh [at] igras [dot] ru
1. Behavior of soils and soil cover in time. The theory of soil evolution. Types of natural and anthropogenic evolution of soils and soil covers.
2. Informational role of soils in natural and human systems. Soil as a memory and regulator of interactions in the biosphere and society.
3. Geography and ecology of soil covers of the polar regions.
4. Weathering, pedogenesis and landscape geochemistry. The role of landscape mineral bases in forming of features of the geochemistry of soils and vegetation.
Laboratory of Geomorphology
Shvarev Sergey, Ph.D. - Head of Laboratory
Phone: +7(499)238-03-60
E-MAIL: shvarev [at] ifz [dot] ru
Nekrasova Larisa, D.Sc. - Scientific Secretary
Phone: +7 499 238-03-60
E-MAIL: langeomorph [at] gmail [dot] com
Mountain regions as an area of extremal endo- and exogenesis.
Exogenous (including anthropogenous) morpholithogenesis under different conditions.
Development of methods of geomodeling and mapping using new GIS-technologies
Laboratory of Hydrology
Koronkevich Nikolay, D.Sc., professor - Head of Laboratory
Phone: +7 499 129-04-74
E-MAIL: hydro-igras [at] yandex [dot] ru
Barabanova Elena, D.Sc. - Scientific Secretary
Phone: +7 499 129-04-74
E-MAIL: barea [at] yandex [dot] ru
Laboratory of Cartography
Medvedev Andrey, Ph.D. - Head of Laboratory
Phone: +7(495)959-38-49
E-MAIL: a.a.medvedeff [at] gmail [dot] com
Khropov Alexander - Scientific Secretary
Phone: +7(495)959-38-49
E-MAIL: a_khro [at] mail [dot] ru
Laboratory of Climatology
Semyonov Vladimir Anatolievich, D.Sc. - Head of Laboratory
Phone: +7(495)9593793
E-MAIL: vasemenov [at] mail [dot] ru
Matveeva Tatiana, Ph.D. - Scientific Secretary
Phone: +7(499)129-04-74
E-MAIL: matveeva.tatiana [at] igras [dot] ru
Reaction of snow cover and vegetation to climate change, numerical modeling of interaction between landscapes and the atmosphere (A.B.Shmakin, A.N.Krenke, V.V.Popova, D.V.Turkov, L.M.Kitaev);
Processes of desertification (A.N.Zolotokrylin, V.V.Vinogradova, T.B.Titkova, E.A.Cherenkova);
Regional climate change in Russia and extreme climatic events now and during the last millennium (V.V.Popova, M.M.Chernavskaya, A.N.Krenke, A.B.Shmakin);
Department of Quaternary Research
Panin Andrey, D.Sc. - Head of Laboratory
Phone: +7(499)238-02-98
E-MAIL: paleo_igras [at] mail [dot] ru
Karpukhina Natalia, Ph.D. - Scientific Secretary
Phone: +7(499)238-02-98
E-MAIL: nvkarpukhina [at] igras [dot] ru
- Landscape and climatic changes at different spatial and temporal scales in the Quaternary
- Palaeoenvironmental reconstructions of glacial and interglacial epochs including the Holocene
- Natural factors forcing colonization of temperate regions of Eurasia by premodern and modern humans
- Assessment of future climate and ecosystem changes based on paleoenvironmental analogs
Laboratory of Geopolitical Studies
Kolosov Vladimir, D.Sc., professor - Head of Laboratory
Phone: +7 495 959-00-29
E-MAIL: vladimirkolossov [at] rambler [dot] ru
Zotova Maria, D.Sc. - Scientific Secretary
Phone: +7(495)959-00-29
E-MAIL: zotovam [at] bk [dot] ru
1) geopolitical culture and imaginations, their relations with territorial identities, the location of Russia and other countries in the world space of flows and foreign policy;
2) theory of border studies, cross-border interactions and cooperation, neighbourhood policy in the post-Soviet space;
3) Non-controlled territories and non-recognized states in the world and in the former USSR: geographical factors of their evolution and problems of internal and external legitimacy;
GIS Research Laboratory
Kazantsev Nikolay - Head of Laboratory
Phone: +7(495)959-00-17
E-MAIL: kkk [at] geocnt [dot] geonet [dot] ru
Fleis Maria - Scientific Secretary
Phone: +7(495)959-00-17
E-MAIL: maria [at] geocnt [dot] geonet [dot] ru
Conceptions, methods, software and technologies for geographicak information systems (GIS) and spatial data infrastructure (SDI).
Methods for monitoring and increases of completeness and quality of spatial data on the base of GIS in the environment of network infrastructure.
Laboratory for anthropogenic changes in the climate system (LACCS)
Sedyakin Valeriy, D.Sc. - Deputy Head of laboratory
E-MAIL: v.sedyakin [at] ru [dot] net
- Anthropogenic changes in biogeochemical cycles due to economic activities
- Detection and attribution of observed changes in the climate system
- Projections of changes in the climate system and the analysis of their severity
- Theoretical studies of options for managing climate to prevent undesirable changes
Laboratory of Radiocarbon Dating & Electronic microscopy
Zazovskaya Elya - Head of Laboratory
Phone: +7(495)959-38-52
E-MAIL: zazovskaya [at] igras [dot] ru
- Methodological work in the field of radiocarbon dating of various carbon-containing materials. The use of scintillation (LSC) and accelerator (AMS) techniques in radiocarbon dating
- Radiocarbon dating of soil organic matter and sediments. Approaches to the selection of the "dating fraction". Estimation of carbon fluxes in soils of various periods and their dynamics due to climate change
- Application of radiocarbon method in paleography, soil science, geology, archeology
- Hierarchical morpho-genetic method for the study of soil and soil-like solids: a consistent study of phenomena and signs at each level of the structural organization of an object
- Use of isotopic markers in soil science, archeology, and paleography
