Vilyui Scientific Permafrost Station (VNIMS IMZ SB RAS) is a research laboratory of the Permafrost Institute organized in 1965 in Chernyshevsky (Yakutia) to monitor the geothermal state of the permafrost zone in the construction area of the Vilyui hydropower station .
| Vilyui research permafrost station of the Institute of permafrost science of the Siberian branch of the Academy of Sciences | |
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| VNIMS IMZ SB RAS | |
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| Direction of research | Geophysics of cryolithozone |
| Founded by | 1965 year |
| University | Institute of permafrost named after P. I. Melnikov SB RAS |
| Location |   Chernyshevsky |
| Geographical coordinates | |
| Supervisor | Velikin Sergey Alexandrovich, Ph.D. |
| Official site | vnims.ru |
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General information
The station is engaged in scientific research in the direction - "Geophysics of the permafrost zone". It includes the development and improvement of geophysical methods for studying the permafrost zone; the study of the interaction of engineering structures in the process of their construction, operation and repair and restoration work with the environment; comprehensive geocryological studies in areas of intensive nature management.
History
The Vilyui scientific permafrost station of the Institute of permafrost of the Siberian branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation was organized due to the need for geocryological studies in the areas of diamond deposits in the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, as well as geothermal studies in the construction area of the Vilyui Hydroelectric Power Station [1] . The initiators of the creation of the Vilyui NIMS are the director of the Institute of permafrost P.I. Melnikov and the Joint Scientific Council on the Geological, Mineralogical and Geographical Sciences of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The first head of VNIMS was Rostislav Mikhailovich Kamensky [2] .
Station managers
- Rostislav Mikhailovich Kamensky (1965 - 1971);
- Boris Alexandrovich Olovin (1972-1973);
- Anatoly Mikhailovich Snegirev (1973 - 2004);
- Sergey Alexandrovich Velikin (2004 - present)
Station Staff
25 people, including 5 researchers (1 candidate of sciences). In different years, such scientists worked at VNIMS as:
- Ph.D. N.F. Krivonogova
- Doctor of Technical Sciences B.A. Olovin
- Ph.D. V. I. Makarov
- Ph.D. M.S. Ivanov
- Ph.D. V.D. Badalov
- Ph.D. S.A. Boykov
- Ph.D. O.A. Kuchmin
- Doctor of Technical Sciences A.M. Snegirev
See also
- Institute of permafrost named after P. I. Melnikov SB RAS
Notes
- ↑ Resolution of the Presidium of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences No. 232 of April 9, 1965
- ↑ order according to IMZ No. 236 of September 29, 65