Awards were presented at the celebratory joint session of Academy Councils at the KarRC RAS. At the celebratory session of Academic Councils of the KarRC RAS, Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU), and Karelian Branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) dedicated to the Russian Science Day certificates of honor and letters of appreciation from ministries and government agencies were awarded to staff of scientific divisions and winners of the KarRC RAS young scientists competition were announced.
The celebratory joint session of Academic Councils of the KarRC RAS, PetrSU, RANEPA Karelian Branch was held at the KarRC RAS on Friday, February 6, dedicated to the Russian Science Day. During the meeting, awards were presented to scientists. Also, the results of the KarRC RAS Young Scientists Competition were announced, with the winners receiving diplomas and money rewards.
A letter of appreciation from the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education was awarded to Nadezhda Lavrova, Researcher at the Institute of Geology KarRC RAS. Certificates of honor from the Russian Academy of Sciences were presented to Senior Researcher Marina Krupnova of the Institute of Biology KarRC RAS; Senior Researcher Fyodor Fyodorov of the Institute of Biology KarRC RAS; Senior Researcher Evgenia Svetova of the Institute of Geology KarRC RAS; Senior Researcher Anna Ruokolainen of the Forest Research Institute KarRC RAS; and Senior Researcher Ekaterina Kostikova of the Institute of Applied Mathematical Research KarRC RAS. A certificate of honor from the Government of the Republic of Karelia was awarded to Leading Researcher Andrey Khumala of the Forest Research Institute.
Awarding of Marina Krupnova, Senior Researcher, Institute of Biology KarRC RAS
Certificate of Honor from the RAS awarded to Ekaterina Kostikova, Senior Researcher, Institute of Applied Mathematical Research KarRC RAS
Representing the Republic of Karelia Ministry of Economic Development, First Deputy Minister Alexander Lomako congratulated the award recipients and the scientific community of Karelia, and presented awards from the Ministry. Letters of appreciation from the Minister of Economic Development were presented to Anastasia Vasileva, Valentina Karginova-Gubinova, and Marina Moroshkina, Senior Researchers at the Institute of Economics KarRC RAS and Sergey Tishkov, KarRC RAS Institute of Economics Secretary for Science.
Letter of Appreciation from the Republic of Karelia Minister of Economic Development goes to Anastasia Vasilieva, Senior Researcher, Institute of Economics KarRC RAS
Awards from the Republic of Karelia Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment were presented by the First Deputy Minister Alexey Pavlov. The team of the Karelian Research Centre RAS was awarded a Certificate of Honor from the Ministry in recognition of many years of fruitful cooperation, collaboration in tackling environmental issues, and contribution to promoting research on Karelia's natural resources. Certificates of Honor from the Ministry were also awarded to Svetlana Grabovik, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Biology KarRC RAS; Nadezhda Kantserova, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Biology KarRC RAS; and Oleg Kuznetsov, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Biology KarRC RAS.
KarRC RAS CEO Olga Bakhmet receives the Certificate of Honor for the Centre’s team from the Karelian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
Certificate of Honor from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment awarded to Senior Researcher of the Institute of Biology KarRC RAS Svetlana Grabovik
During the ceremony, winners of the KarRC RAS Young Scientists Competition were announced. All in all, 35 papers were submitted for the competition in 2025. The commission made up of scientists from all KarRC RAS divisions chose the authors of ten papers as the winners. The young scientists were awarded diplomas and money rewards.
Competition winner in the categories:
Earth Sciences
Maxim Tsvetkov, Junior Researcher, Quaternary Geology and Geoecology Laboratory, Institute of Geology KarRC RAS for the paper Tsvetkov, M.O., Spirin, O.V. Experimental study of rock permittivity in the frequency range of 30 MHz to 1.5 GHz. Russ Phys J (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11182-025-03592-z.
Biological Sciences
Natalya Shulgina, Junior Researcher, Ecological Biochemistry Laboratory, Institute of Biology KarRC RAS for the paper “Expression of genes regulating muscle growth in Atlantic salmon underyearlings grown under different lighting regimes” in Russian Journal of Developmental Biology, 2025, Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 21–39.
Awarding of Anastasia Sidorova, Senior Researcher, Hydrobiology Laboratory, Northern Water Problems Institute KarRC RAS
Anastasia Sidorova, Senior Researcher, Hydrobiology Laboratory, Northern Water Problems Institute KarRC RAS: Sidorova A.I., Fomina Yu.Yu. Testing a new biomarker considering the proportion of Gmelinoides fasciatus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) embryos with developmental disorders in Lake Onego, Republic of Karelia // Ontogeny / Russian Journal of Developmental Biology. 2025. Vol 56. No. 5. pp. 210–222. DOI: 10.7868/S3034626625050041.
STEM
Nikita Sharpar, Junior Researcher, Laboratory for Physicochemical Study of Nanomaterials, Institute of Geology KarRC RAS, for the paper Sharpar N.D, Rozhkova N.N. Stabilization of quartz nanoparticles with grapheme carbon for structuring optical media // Opticheskii Zhurnal. – 2025. – Vol. 92, No. 10. – pp. 74-81.).
Congratulations to diploma winner Nikita Sharpar, Junior Researcher, Laboratory for Physicochemical Study of Nanomaterials, Institute of Geology KarRC RAS
Awarding of Alexandra Ivanova, Junior Researcher, Laboratory for Modeling Natural and Technical Systems, IAMR KarRC RAS
Alexandra Ivanova, Junior Researcher, Laboratory for Modeling Natural and Technical Systems, Institute of Applied Mathematical Research KarRC RAS, for the paper “Method for controlling the biocommunity in the problem of preserving the predator-prey interaction structure” in Mathematical Models and Computer Simulations, Vol. 38.
Liberal Arts
Ksenia Bogacheva, Junior Researcher, History Section, Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History KarRC RAS, for the paper “The vocabulary of town-twinning: a corpus analysis of the press in Soviet Karelia (1960s–1980s)” in Finno-Ugric World. 2025;17(4):398–411. https://doi.org/10.15507/2076-2577.017.2025.04.398-411).
Social Sciences
Valentina Karginova-Gubinova, Senior Researcher, Regional Economic Policy Department, Institute of Economics KarRC RAS, for the paper “The price of carbon: choosing between the physical and economic equivalence of emissions and permits” (Karginova-Gubinova V.V., Tolstogyzov O.V., Tishkov S.V., Shlapeko E.A. in Voprosy Ekonomiki. – 2025. – No. 7. – 82–97. DOI: 10.32609/0042-8736-2025-7-82-97.).
Humanities
Co-authors: Elvira Dzhioshvili, Junior Researcher, Ethnology Section, Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History KarRC RAS, and Sergey Minvaleev, Researcher, Ethnology Section, Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History KarRC RAS, for the paper “What Karelians? You’re Pomors!: features of Karelian and Pomor identities through the prism of stereotypes” in Yearbook of Finno-Ugric Studies. 2025. Vol. 19. No. 3. pp. 421–432.).
Alexander Krivonozhenko, Researcher at the History Section, Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History KarRC RAS, with the diploma of a winner
Best Popular Science Action
Alexander Krivonozhenko, Researcher, History Section, Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History KarRC RAS, for the museum exhibition “Watermill: a Symbol of the Karelian Countryside”.
Special award from the competition’s expert board
Arsenii Lezzhov, Laboratory Researcher, Precambrian Geology and Geodynamics Laboratory, Institute of Geology KarRC RAS, for a series of popular-science videos on rocks and minerals.
- Publications, essentially, indicate how our work is assessed. It matters a lot where the papers are published and what the expert judgment is. The way young scientists respond to modern challenges and what the rising generation is like is crucial for the Centre’s development, - stressed KarRC RAS leader Olga Bakhmet, congratulating the winners.
The awards ceremony was followed the main agenda of the Academic Councils' session, featuring presentations by Mikhail Goldenberg, Director of the National Museum of the Republic of Karelia, and Olga Bakhmet, KarRC RAS CEO. They talked about the past and the present of academic science in Karelia, with reference to the 80th anniversary of the Karelian Research Centre RAS celebrated this year.
