Shirshov Institute of Oceanology

The Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (IO) RAN, {{langx|ru|Федеральное государственное бюджетное учреждение науки Институт океанологии имени П. П. Ширшова Российской академии наук (ИО РАН) or Институт океанологии им. П. П. Ширшова РАН}}) is the premier research institution for ocean, climate, and earth science in Russia. It was established in 1946 and is part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It is headquartered in Moscow. The institute is named after Pyotr Shirshov, who founded it in 1946.

Notable past or present researchers

=Biologists=

Igor Akimushkin (d. 1993){{citation needed|reason=no citation on subject's page|date=January 2021}}

=Climate scientists=

Olga Zolina{{cite news |last1=Galey |first1=Patrick |title=Siberia Heat 'Almost Impossible' Without Climate Change |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/07/16/siberia-heat-almost-impossible-without-climate-change-a70892 |access-date=15 January 2021 |work=The Moscow Times |date=16 July 2020}}

=Mathematicians=

Grigory Barenblatt (d. 2018){{citation needed|reason=no citation on subject's page|date=January 2021}}
Andrei Monin, Director of the Institute 1965-1987 (d. 2007){{cite web|url=http://www.ocean.ru/eng/content/view/86/|title=A.S. Monin|publisher=Russian Academy of Sciences|accessdate=15 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091225172825/http://www.ocean.ru/eng/content/view/86/|archive-date=25 December 2009|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}

=Physical oceanographers=

Leonid Brekhovskikh (d. 2005){{cite journal |author1=Mikhalevsky, P |author2=Godin, O |author3=Naugolnykh, K |author4=Dubrovsky, N |year=2005 |title=Leonid Maksimovich Brekhovskikh

|journal=Physics Today |volume=58 |issue=11 |pages=70 |bibcode = 2005PhT....58k..70M |doi=10.1063/1.2155769 |doi-access=free}}

Vladimir Shtokman (d. 1968){{citation needed|reason=no citation on subject's page|date=January 2021}}

=Others=

Anatoly Sagalevich, explorer and pilot of the MIR submersible to the seabed under the North Pole (the Arktika 2007 project){{citation needed|reason=no citation on subject's page|date=January 2021}}
Alexander Gorodnitsky, poet and geologist{{citation needed|reason=institute not mentioned on subject's page|date=January 2021}}