FCIARctic is located in the Arkhangelsk region – which is the most habitable and developed part of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation.
The Center is the successor of research activities developed by several institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences formed in the city of Arkhangelsk in the 1990s.
FCIARctic was formed in 2015 by consolidation of:
- Arkhangelsk Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the RAS (UB RAS),
- Institute of Environmental Problems of the North of the UB RAS,
- Institute of Physiology of Natural Adaptations of the UB RAS,
- Arkhangelsk Institute of Agricultural Research of the RAS,
- Naryan-Mar Agricultural Experimental Station of the RAS.
In 2016 the Center was named after Nikolai Laverov, the outstanding academician of the RAS.
The number of research personnel – 213, including one corresponding member of the RAS and 20 Doctors of Sciences (2018).
Postgraduate specialties: physiology, zoology, ecology, economics and national economy management, geophysics and geophysical methods of mineral exploration, geoecology (2017).
Number of graduate students – 48 (2018)
National patents received in 2017–2019: 12
Ivan BOLOTOV
The founder of the Center is the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
The scientific and methodological activities of the Center are led by the RAS
Director of the Center - Ivan BOLOTOV, Doctor of Sciences (Biology).
Form of the FCIARctic̕ legal entity incorporation – federal state-owned budgetary institution.
