Institute for Volcanology and Seismology
The Institute of Volcanology and Seismology ( Russian Институт вулканологии и сейсмологии ) in the Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is one of the world's most prestigious institutions of its kind with its seat in the capital of. Kamchatka region - located on the Pacific Ring of Fire - it is located in one of the geologically most active areas.
history
Initial descriptions and observations of volcanic activity on the peninsula date from the first quarter of the 18th century and come mainly from members of the first and second Kamchatka expeditions . In the 19th century, among others, Karl von Ditmar , Georg Adolf Erman and Carl Bogdanowitsch contributed to geological research.
However , July 15, 1915 is considered to be the start of the actual, systematic geophysical research on Kamchatka. At that time, Alexander Purin (1885–1952) set up the first seismological station in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky . On September 1, 1935, a volcanological station was founded at the suggestion of Franz Loewinson-Lessing . Both were merged in 1946.
Following a restructuring of the station since 1962 as an independent institute is part of the four-membered Kamchatka Research Center ( Russian Камчатский научный центр ), for his part for the Far Eastern Division ( Russian Дальневосточное отделение , ДВО the) Russian Academy of Sciences belongs. On April 20, 2004, the previously independent Institute for Volcanic Geology and Geochemistry ( Russian Института вулканической геологии и геохимии ) merged with the Institute for Volcanology and Seismology.
In the course of its history, the institute had to deal with the loss of several scientists who died while performing their duties on volcanoes - either directly from eruptions or from accidents: between 1951 and 1986, Alewtina Bilinkina , Andrei Lwowitsch Ivanov, Igor Loginow and Yuri Skuridin came to the Klyuchevskaya Sopka perished. Alexander Budnikow died in 1976 on Tolbatschik , in 1986 Alexander Umnow on Karymski , in 1993 Igor Menjailow in Galeras and in 2013 Yekaterina Kravschunovskaya on Avachinskaya Sopka .
Directors
- 1962–1966: Boris Piip
- 1966–1969: Georgi Gorschkow
- 1969–1970: Konstantin Zelenow
- 1971–2004: Sergei Fedotow
- 2004–: Yevgeny Gordejew
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Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ′ 59 ″ N , 158 ° 36 ′ 26 ″ E