Svetlana Murzina, Head of Ecological Biochemistry Laboratory at the Institute of Biology KarRC RAS, awarded the RAS Professor title

The honorary title of RAS Professor has been awarded to Svetlana Murzina, Head of the Ecological Biochemistry Laboratory at the Institute of Biology KarRC RAS. The decision was taken at the RAS General Assembly in December 2025.

KarRC RAS management proves its competences in scientific organization’s business performance

The management of the KarRC RAS has proved its competence in the financial and economic affairs of scientific organizations subordinated to the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The independent competency assessment was conducted for the third time. Having completed the test successfully, Lyubov Shvetsova, Assistant to the KarRC RAS CEO, took part in the Third All-Russian Forum of Scientific Organization Finance and Accounting Directors.

Second part of the comic book “Enlightening Journeys of Karelian Baby Animals” is out of print at KarRC RAS Institute of Geology

On December 18, the Museum of Applied Environmental Research at the Karelian Research Centre RAS hosted the presentation of the children's comic book "Enlightening Journeys of Karelian Baby Animals. New Adventures: Science for the Youngest". The presentation gathered journalists from Karelian media outlets together with children, and editorial staff of My Newspaper+, which includes pupils from Petrozavodsk schools.

Corresponding Academician Nikolai Filatov was awarded the Medal for Merit to the Republic of Karelia

The day before, Head of Karelia Artur Parfenchikov presented government awards to the region’s citizens. Nikolai Filatov, RAS Corr. Fellow, Chief Researcher at the Northern Water Problems Institute KarRC RAS, was awarded the Medal for Merit to the Republic of Karelia. Congratulations to Nikolai Nikolaevich on this well-deserved recognition!

KarRC RAS Learned Council had its final 2025 session

The KarRC RAS Learned Council met on its final session of 2025. A presentation titled "Karelia's Geological Heritage as the Foundation for Building the Region's Innovative Development Strategy" was delivered by Sergey Svetov, Director of the KarRC RAS Institute of Geology. Deputy Director of the KarRC RAS Institute of Applied Mathematical Research, Yulia Chirkova, gave a scientific lecture on the analysis of traffic flows on the graph of Petrozavodsk roads. The participants also endorsed the Karelian Research Centre's events plan and the publication frequency and schedule for the journal Transactions of the Karelian Research Centre RAS.

Karelian scientists gave a master class on drawing blood samples from trout for early disease diagnosis

On December 12, a workshop was held at the Institute of Biology KarRC RAS for specialists from trout farms of the republic. The main topic was a modern method of blood sampling from fish for laboratory testing, which allows early detection of diseases.

Irina Novak's work on the study of Karelian dialects has been recognized as the best in the competition among projects supporting ethnic languages of the Russian Federation

Irina Novak, Director of the Institute of Linguistics, Literature, and History KarRC RAS, has won the Keyword All-Russian Public Award for the preservation of the language diversity. Experts acknowledged the linguist's monograph "The Karelian Language Landscape in the Dialectometric Paradigm", which is based on her Dr.Sci. dissertation. The scholar has developed a modern dialect map of the Karelian language, with its supradialects, dialects, and sub-dialectal groups.

New mineral discovered in Karelia is officially registered

Sulfopadmaite, a mineral discovered in 2025, has been formally registered by the International Mineralogical Association. This is yet another discovery made at Srednyaya Padma deposit on the Zaonezhsky Peninsula.

Mathematicians from Karelia and Italy find a new way to optimize quantum computing

Maria Makarova, a young mathematician from Petrozavodsk, completed her postgraduate studies at KarRC RAS and at the University of Trento, Italy. She now works at the intersection of mathematics and computer science in the field of quantum computing. Quantum computers represent the future, the foundations for which are being laid at this very moment, but as yet, these innovative devices are rather vulnerable: the physical features and the complexity of interactions among quantum particles lead to costly calculation errors. Scientists worldwide, including mathematicians from the Institute of Applied Mathematical Research KarRC RAS, are solving problems to optimize such computations.