The State Scientific Centre of the Russian Federation the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute belongs to the Federal Russian Department of hydrometeorology and environment monitoring. The Institute is the oldest research institution of Russia, that is doing the complex research of the Polar Earth regions.
The AARI does the complex research in Arctic and Antarctic concerning the oceanography, the ice physics, the ocean and land water, the meteorology, the interaction between the ocean and the atmosphere, the geophysics, the sea-ice study, the glaciology, the polar geography, hydrochemistry, the hydrology of the river mouth and the water source, the ecology, the interaction between a hull and other engineering constructions with ice, the polar medicine.
