Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
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Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS) in Moscow
Moscow
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, is the largest institute for ocean and earth science research, in Russia
Russia
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, established in 1946.

Fleet

  • RV Akademik Ioffe (:ru:Академик Иоффе (судно))
  • RV Akademik Sergey Vavilov
    Akademik Sergey Vavilov
    The Akademik Sergey Vavilov is a Russian research vessel, named after academician Sergey Vavilov. It was completed on February 12, 1988 Rauma, Finland for the Soviet Union...

  • RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh
    Akademik Mstislav Keldysh
    The R/V Akademik Mstislav Keldysh is a 6,240 ton Russian scientific research vessel. It is best known as the support vessel of the Mir submersibles. The vessel has made over 50 voyages, is owned by the Moscow-based Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Science and is...

  • RV Professor Shtokman (:ru:Профессор Штокман (судно))
  • RV Rift
  • RV Akvanaft
  • MIR (submersible)
    MIR (submersible)
    Mir is a self-propelled Deep Submergence Vehicle. The project was initially developed by the USSR Academy of Sciences along with Design Bureau Lazurith. Later two vehicles were ordered from Finland...


  • RV Vityaz (:ru:Витязь (судно)) - not active since 1979; now a museum
    Museum ship
    A museum ship, or sometimes memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public, for educational or memorial purposes...

     in Kaliningrad
    Kaliningrad
    Kaliningrad is a seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea...

    .

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