Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS)

Basic Research Projects, 2021-2025

SB RAS Basic Research Project, 2021-2025: Permafrost Degradation and Landform Transformation in Coastal and Offshore Areas of the Eastern Russian Arctic: Dynamics, Prediction and Risks (Project Director: Mikhail Grigoriev, DSc)

SB RAS Basic Research Project, 2021-2025: The Thermal Field and Permafrost in Northeastern Russia: Controls and Dynamics (Project Director: Mikhail Zhelezniak, DSc)

SB RAS Basic Research Project, 2021-2025: Structure of Continental Permafrost and Key Stages of Its Evolution during the Neopleistocene and Holocene (Project Directors: Valentin Spektor, PhD and Alexey Galanin, DSc)

SB RAS Basic Research Project, 2021-2025: Geocryological Processes and Hazards in Permafrost Landscapes of Eastern Siberia (Project Director: Alexander Fedorov, DSc)

SB RAS Basic Research Project, 2021-2025: Sustainability of Coupled Natural and Human Systems in Permafrost Regions and New Technologies for Using Cold Resources (Project Directors: Rudolf Zhang, DSc and Ivan Khristoforov, PhD)

SB RAS Basic Research Project, 2021-2025: Groundwater in Permafrost: Origins, Regime, Interactions with Surface Water and Permafrost, and Resource Development (Project Directors: Viktor Shepelev, DSc and Nadezhda Pavlova, PhD)

SB RAS Interdisciplinary Integrated Projects

SB RAS Interdisciplinary Integrated Project II.1, 2018-2020: Reconstructing the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Permafrost and Subsurface Temperature in the Vilyui Basin (Project Director: Mikhail Zhelezniak, DSc)

Block 1. Permafrost Reconstruction During the Last 150,000 Years with Consideration of Climatic and Environmental Change and Subsurface Hydrodynamic Processes (Principal Investigator: Mikhail Zhelezniak, DSc)

Block 2. Current Subsurface Temperature Distribution and Permafrost in the Vilyui Basin (Principal Investigator: Vladimir Zhizhin, DSc)

Block 3. Structure and Evolution of Periglacial Eolian Sediments, Permafrost and Landforms in the Vilyui Basin During the Late Neopleostocene and Holocene (Principal Investigator: Alexey Galanin, DSc)

Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) Projects

Russian Foundation for Basic Research – National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant (RFBR Grant No. 20-55-53036), 2020-2022: Differences between the Aldan-Stanovoy Highland (Russia) and the Tibet Plateau (China) in Permafrost Response to Precipitation Changes (Project Co-Director: Petr Permyakov, D.Sc.)

Russian Foundation for Basic Research – National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant (RFBR Grant No. 20-55-53014, 2020-2022: Study of Permafrost Changes Induced by Climate Warming in the Siberian Arctic and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (Project Co-Director: Pavel Konstantinov, Ph.D.)

Russian Foundation for Basic Research – National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant (RFBR Grant No. 20-55-53006), 2020-2022: Rock and Soil Weathering in Cold Environments of Southern Yakutia, Russia and North-Eastern China: Mechanisms and Characteristics (Project Co-Director: Andrei Melnikov, Ph.D.)

RFBR Grant 20-05-00666, 2020-2022: Giant Icings (Taryns) in Northeast Russia as Indicators of Climate Change-Induced Transformation of Permafrost Systems (Project Director: Vladimir Alekseev, D.Sc.)

RFBR Grant 20-55-71005, 2020-2022: Hydrology, Permafrost and Resilience in Eastern Russian Arctic and Subarctic (Project Director: Liudmila Lebedeva, Ph.D.)

RFBR Grant 20-05-00670, 2020-2022: Suprapermafrost subaerial taliks in continuous permafrost, Central Yakutia (Project Director: Viktor Shepelev, D.Sc.)

RFBR Project 20-35-70027, 2020-2022: Sources of Streamflow in Small Rivers of Lowland and Mountain Permafrost Areas (Project Director: Liudmila Lebedeva, Ph.D.)

RFBR Grant 19-50-80028, 2019-2021: Assessment and Prediction of Climate Change Impacts on River Hydrology in the Asian Mountain Plateaus (Project Director: Olga Makarieva, Ph.D.)

RFBR Project 19-35-50030, 2019-2021: Mathematical Modelling and Assessment of Thermokarst Lake Contribution to the Hydrological Regime: Central Yakutian Rivers (Project Director: Alexander Fedorov, PhD)

RFBR Project 18-45-140046, 2018-2020: Development of GIS Models of Permafrost-Landscape Evolution in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (Project Director: Alexander Fedorov, PhD)

RFBR Project 18-45-140057, 2018-2020: Subsea Permafrost Degradation Rates and Additional Gas Fluxes from Bottom Sediments to the Atmosphere in Arctic Yakutia in Response to Observed Climate Variations (Project Director: Mikhail Grigoriev, DSc)

RFBR Project 18-41-140008, 2018-2020: Developing a Numerical Modelling Procedure for Adverse Permafrost Processes Caused by Climate Change and Anthropogenic Effects (Project Director: Petr Permyakov, DSc)

RFBR Project 18-05-00990, 2018-2020: Wildfire-Induced Changes in Near-Surface Permafrost Temperatures (Project Director: Valentin Spektor, PhD)

RFBR Project 18-35-00402, 2018-2020: Structure, Age and Geographical Analysis of Rock Glaciers in the Chersky Range (Project Director: Vasily Lytkin, PhD)

RFBR Project 18-05-70091, 2018-2020: Estimation of Arctic Coastal Erosion and Inputs of Terrigeneous Material and Organic Carbon to the Arctic Basin (Project Director: Mikhail Grigoriev, DSc)

RFBR Project 18-45-140065, 2018-2020: Evaluation of Groundwater Discharge to the Lena River Using Tritium and Hydrological Modeling (Project Director: Viktor Shepelev, DSc)

RFBR Project 18-45-140029, 2018-2020: Hydrogeology and Thermal Regime of Permafrost in Central Yakutia – Study of Relationships and Temporal Variations in the Holocene and Under Various Climate Scenarios (Project Director: Nikita Tananaev, PhD)

RFBR Project 18-05-60300, 2018-2020: Thermal Abrasion of the Russian Arctic Coasts (Project Director: S.A. Ogorodov, Principal Investigator: S.O. Razumov, PhD)

RFBR Project 18-45-140012: Geomorphological Mapping and Zonation of Late-Quaternary Periglacial and Eolian Landforms in Central Yakutia Using Satellite Imagery and GIS-Technologies (Project Director: Alexey Galanin, DSc)

Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR Grant No. 18-55-53054) – National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC Grant No. 41811530093), 2018-2019: Formation, Modern State of Pleistocene Cryogenic Deposits in Eastern Asia, and Forecast of Their Dynamics in Relation to the Ongoing Climatic Variations (Project Co-Director: Valentin Spektor, PhD)

RFBR Project 17-05-00954, 2017-2019: Structure, Origin and Composition of Stable Isotopes in Intrapermafrost Taliks of the Late Quaternary Sand Dunes, Central Yakutia (Project Director: Alexey Galanin, DSc)

RFBR–Russian Geographical Society Project 17-05-41079, 2017-2019: 1:2,500,000-Scale Mapping of Upper Permafrost Parameters, Eastern Russian Arctic (Project Director: Vladimir Spektor, DSc)

RFBR Project 17-05-00217, 2017-2019: Mechanisms of Interaction between Surface Water and Groundwater in the Small River Basins Underlain by Permafrost Based on Tracer Research Methods (Project Director: V. Shamov, DSc)

RFBR Project 17-05-00926, 2017–2019: Water-bearing Taliks in Continuous Permafrost under Changing Climate, Central Yakutia: Distribution, Hydrogeological Regime and Contribution to Streamflow Generation (Project Director: Viktor Shepelev, DSc)

RFBR Project 17-05-00217, 2017-2019: Mechanisms of Interaction between Surface Water and Groundwater in the Small River Basins Underlain by Permafrost Based on Tracer Research Methods (Project Director: Vladimir Shamov, DSc)

Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR Grant No. 18-55-53041) – National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2018-2019: A Comparative Study of the Influence of Convection Flows of Water and Air on State of Permafrost in the Aldan-Stanovoy Upland and the Tibetan Plateau (Project Co-Director: Mikhail Zhelezniak, DSc)

Other Projects

Russian Science Foundation Grant 21-17-00054, 2021-2023: Quaternary Aeolian Landforms and Cover Deposits in the Lena River Basin, East Siberia: Structure, Age and Paleoenvironmental Significance (Project Director: Alexey Galanin, D.Sc.)

Russian Science Foundation – L'Agence nationale de la recherche Grant, 2021-2023: Assessing Ice-Rich Permafrost Terrain Degradation and Restoration Opportunities in Central Yakutia, Siberia (Russian Principal Investigator: Alexander Zhirkov, Ph.D.)

2021 R.F. Presidential Grant for Young Scientists, MK 5330.2021.1.5: Climate Change Effects on Annual River Flow Distribution in the Yakutian Permafrost Region (Liudmila Lebedeva, Ph.D.)

Russian Geographical Society Grant 46149, 2021: Tukulans: Fossil Relicts of the Ice-Age Deserts in East Siberia (PI: Alexey Galanin, D.Sc.)

Russian Geographical Society Grant, 2021: Water Resources in Northeast Russia Under Regional and Global Changes (PI: Olga Makarieva, Ph.D.)

Russian Geographical Society Project 26/2019-И, 2019-2020: Atlas of Giant Icings (Taryns) in North-East Russia (Project Director: Vladimir Alekseev, DSc)

Russian Science Foundation Project 19-77-00055, 2019-2020: Winter Streamflow in Continuous Permafrost of the Lena River Basin (Project Director: Liudmila Lebedeva, PhD)

MPI–NIEER CAS Cooperative Research Project on Permafrost Degradation along the possible Beijing-Moscow high-speed railway and their mitigation measures, 2019-2022 (Principal Investigator: Andrei Melnikov, Ph.D.)

MPI–NIIER CAS Cooperative Research Project on Permafrost Degradation along the China-Russia Crude Oil Pipeline and the Manzhouli (China)-Chita (Russia) Railway, and their Mitigative Measures, 2019-2022 (Principal Investigator: Andrei Melnikov, Ph.D.)

Industry and Government Contract Research

P/T – Project Title
P/I – Principal Investigator
C/O – Contracting Organization

Ongoing

P/T – Establishment of an Experimental Test Site Network on Regional Roads in the Sakha (Yakutia) Permafrost Zone for Embankment Stability Research (2020-2021)
P/I – Igor Syromyatnikov and Andrei Litovko
C/O – Sakha (Yakutia) Public Roads Administration

P/T – Characterization of Ground and Surface Waters in the Nezhdaninskoe Field Area (2020-2021)
P/I – Nadezhda Pavlova, Ph.D.
C/O – Southern Verkhoyansk Mining Co.

P/T – Assessing Alternative Sources for Community Water Supply in the Vilyuy River Basin (2020-2021)
P/I – Viktor Shepelev, D.Sc. and Leonid Gagarin, Ph.D.
C/O – Trust Fund of Future Generations in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

P/T: Observations of Foundation Settlement and Ground Temperature Regime at the Yakutsk CHP Plant
P/I: P. Zabolotnik
C/O: Yakutskenergo PAO

P/T: Monitoring of Magadan Dam Seepage and Temperature Regimes
P/I: S. Gulyi
C/O: Magadanenergo PAO

P/T: Temperature and Seepage Monitoring of the Embankment Dam and Concrete Appurtenant Structures, Arkagalinskaya Station
P/I: S. Gulyi
C/O: Magadanenergo PAO

P/T: Ground Temperature Measurements in the City of Yakutsk
P/I: S. Varlamov
C/O: Kibor OOO

P/T: Geophysical Monitoring of the Right Abutment of the Vilyui Hydro Complex Dam
P/I: S. Velikin
C/O: Yakutskenergo OAO

P/T: Geophysical Monitoring of the Udachny Mine Dams
P/I: S. Velikin
C/O: Alrosa Co.

P/T: Geophysical Monitoring of the Nyurba Mine Dams
P/I: S. Velikin
C/O: Alrosa Co.

Recently Completed

P/T: Investigation of Permafrost Changes and Assessment of Related Hazards on Linear Infrastructure in the Power of Siberia Pipeline Corridor in a Changing Climate (2018-2020)
P/I: Vera Samsonova
C/O: Larionov Institute of Physical and-Technical Problems of the North, Yakutsk

P/T – Ground Temperature Measurements at Site 3 of the Flood Control Dyke in Yakutsk (2020)
P/I – Alexander Zhirkov
C/O – Sakha (Yakutia) Executive Office on Spring Flood Response and Recovery Activities

P/T – Determination of Thermal and Physical Properties of Rock Samples in Frozen and Thawed States
P/I – Anatolii Kirillin
C/O – Russkaya Burovaya Co. OOO

P/T – Thermal Analysis of an Insulating Embankment for the Runway Reconstruction Project at Magan Airport, Yakutia (2020) 
P/I – Petr Permyakov
C/O – LenAeroProect AO (St. Petersburg)

P/T – Assessing the Feasibility of Embankment Construction during Summer and Fall for the Olekminsk Airport Reconstruction Project (2020)
P/I – Petr Permyakov
C/O – NordTransStroy OOO

P/T – Permafrost Characterization for the Lena River Toll Bridge Project Site (2020) 
Project Director: Mikhail Zhelezniak, D.Sc.
P/I – Nadezhda Pavlova, Ph.D. and Stepan Varlamov, Ph.D. 
C/O – Institut Giprostroymost St Petersburg AO 

P/T – Geotechnical and Permafrost Investigations for the Yakutsk Airport Runway-2 Reconstruction Project (2020)
Project Director: Mikhail Zhelezniak, D.Sc. 
P/I – Danil Shesternev, Ph.D. and Marina Danzanova, Ph.D.
C/O – LenAeroProect AO (St. Petersburg) 

P/T – Origin and Composition of Dust in Yakutsk (2019-2020)
P/I – Vladimir Makarov, D.Sc. and Nikolai Torgovkin, Ph.D.
C/O – Sinet Group

P/T – Consulting and Reviewing of Foundation Designs for Permafrost Regions (2020)
P/I – Sergei Gulyi, Ph.D.
C/O – DalAeroProekt

P/T: Identifying Potential Thermokarst Areas along the Proposed Fiber Optic Cable Line from Mirny to Suntar to Vilyuisk
P/I: D. Shesternev
C/O: Sakhatelecom (Yakutsk)

P/T: Developing Guidelines for Selecting Burial Depth of Fiber Optic Cables with Permissible Crush (3 kN/cm² to 7 kN/cm²) and Tensile (7 kN/cm² to 40 kN/cm²) Loads in the Active Layer of Permafrost in the Section from Udachny to Verkne-Munskoe to Olenek
P/I: D. Shesternev
C/O: Sakhatelecom

P/T: Thermal Measurements below the School Building in Tomtor, Oymyakon
P/I: A. Naberezhnyi
C/O: Oymyakon Municipality

P/T: Inspection of On-Stream Support no.3A of the Lena River Crossing
P/I: A. Naberezhnyi

P/T: Identifying Causes for Foundation Settlements of a New Rescue Station Building in Magadan
P/I: S. Gulyi
C/O: NordTranStrot OOO

P/T: Field Testing of the DAN Instrument at the Melnikov Permafrost Institute's Monitoring Sites, Phase II
P/I: N. Tananaev, Co-P/I: V. Efremov
C/O: Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow

P/T: Aquifer Resource Reassessment at the Nezhdaninsky Autonomous Site
P/I: N. Pavlova
C/O: South-Verkoyansk Mining Co.

P/T: Design of Water Intake Facility and Source Protection Area, Satagay Aquifer
P/I: N. Pavlova
C/O: Sakha (Yakutia) Department of Housing and Communal Services

P/T: Drilling of a Groundwater Observation Wells and Fabrication and Installation of 3-m Filter Pipes in District 203, Yakutsk
P/I: L. Gagarin
C/O: RDR Group, Yakutsk

P/T: The Condition of Surface and Groundwater in the Town of Mirny and the Udachny Mine Areas
P/I: A. Semernya
C/O: Alrosa Co.

P/T: Reassessment of Groundwater Storage in the Khatassy Aquifer (Wells 6-10 and 28-D)
P/I: A. Kolesnikov
C/O: Khatassy Pig Farming Complex, Yakutsk

P/T: Study of Geotechnical, Geocryological and Hydrological Conditions in the Lower Bolshaya Kuonamka River Valley and Engineering-Geological Mapping at a Scale of 1:50,000
P/I: A. Galanin
C/O: Nizhne-Lenskoe ZAO

P/T: Seasonal Thaw Depth and Ground Temperature Patterns in the Bolshaya Kuonamka Valley Along Exploration Line 831
P/I: A. Galanin
C/O: Nizhne-Lenskoe ZAO

P/T: The Subsurface Temperature Field and Heat Flux in the Northern Part of the Tungusska Syneclise
P/I: I. Misailov
C/O: Polyarnaya GRE OAO

P/T: Thermal Properties of Rocks from the Maya and Nyurba Diamond Pipes
P/I: A. Zhirkov
C/O: Alrosa Co.

P/T: Geological and Geophysical Assessment of Geocryological Conditions in Near-Surface Enclosing Rocks, Nyurba and Botuoba Open Pit Mines
P/I: S. Velikin
C/O: Alrosa Co.

P/T: Development of Guidelines for Setting Up an Automated Ground Temperature Control System at the Aikhal Mine
P/I: S. Velikin
C/O: Alrosa Co.

P/T: Geocryological and Hydrogeological Observations of Hydraulically Filled and Underlying Soils in District 2013, Yakutsk, and Development of Effective Maintenance Measures
P/I: D. Shesternev
C/O: RDR Group OOO

P/T: Geocryological and Hydrogeological Observations of Hydraulically Filled and Underlying Soils in District 2013, Yakutsk, and Development of Effective Maintenance Measures
P/I: D. Shesternev
C/O: RDR Group OOO

P/T: Engineering Geological Investigation for a Multi-Apartment Residential Building with Nonresidential and Underground Parking Structures (2-5), District 2013, Yakutsk
P/I: D. Shesternev
C/O: RDR Group OOO

P/T: Engineering Geological Investigation for a Multi-Apartment Residential Building with Nonresidential and Underground Parking Structures (3-4), District 2013, Yakutsk
P/I: D. Shesternev
C/O: RFA-Invest OAO

P/T: Engineering Geological Investigation for a Multi-Apartment Residential Building with Nonresidential and Underground Parking Structures (2-1), District 2013, Yakutsk
P/I: D. Shesternev
C/O: RFA-Invest OAO


P/T: Development of an Operation Manual for the Arkagalinskaya Station Dam
P/I: S. Gulyi
C/O: Magadanenergo OAO

P/T: Monitoring of Acid Deposition
P/I: V. Makarov
C/O: Republic of Sakha Ministry of Environmental Protection

P/T: Development of a Performance Specification for Establishing Three Federal Observatories for Road Behavior and Service Life Studies with an Instrumentation and Operation Program
P/I: D. Shesternev
C/O: Stroyproekt OAO, St. Petersburg

P/T: Engineering-Geocryological Monitoring in the Berkakit-Tommot-Kerdem Railroad Corridor
P/I: D. Shesternev
C/O: Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Committee on Innovation Policy and Science, RS(Y) Ministry of Transport and IT Development

P/T: Guidelines for the Use of a New Resource-Saving Method of Electromagnetic Sounding to Study the Structure and Thermal Condition of Frozen Foundation Soils
P/I: D. Shesternev
C/O: Gasexpertservice OOO

P/T: Effect of Icings on Flood Stages in the Yana River Basin: Sartang, Dulgallakh and Adycha Rivers
P/I: N. Pavlova
C/O: Institute of Physico-Technical Problems of the North, Yakutsk

P/T: Assessment of Groundwater Resources in the Well 1-AC Area, Gorny Ulus, Yakutia
P/I: V. Efremov
C/O: Saidyy Livestock Cooperative

P/T: Geothermal Study of Permafrost in the Kystyktakh Area and Development of a Geocryological Database
P/I: M. Zhelezniak
C/O: Polarnaya Geologorazvedochanya Expeditsia MUP, Khatanga

P/T: Geothermal Database of the Yenisey-Khatanga Trough
P/I: M. Zhelezniak
C/O: Vankorneft ZAO

P/T: Landscape-Based Systematization of Permafrost and Climate Data for the Kara Sea Coastal and Offshore Areas Obtained During the 1978-1981 Kara Expedition
P/I: V. Zhizhin
C/O: Association of Engineering Education, Tyumen State Oil and Gas University

P/T: Reconnaissance Study of the Northern and Southern Flanks of the Pologoe Gold and Antimony Field
P/I: V. Semenov
C/O: Mineral OOO, Yakutsk

P/T: A GPR Survey of Pile Foundation Concrete Blinding, Botuoba Geological Exploration
P/I: S. Velikin
C/O: Alrosa Co.

P/T: Udachny Mine: A Ground Temperature Control System for Shaft Headframes During the Installation and Operation Periods
P/I: S. Velikin
C/O: Alrosa Co.

P/T: Integrated Geophysical Studies of Permafrost on the Eastern Slope of the Nyurba Open Pit Mine
P/I: S. Velikin
C/O: Alrosa Co.

P/T: Geophysical Site Investigation of the Tymtaidakh Drainage Water Collector
P/I: S. Velikin
C/O: Alrosa Co.

P/T: GPR Inspection of the Foundation Soil beneath Residential Building No. 5
P/I: S. Velikin
C/O: Town of Mirny Housing Department