Far East State Marine Reserve

HEAD Peter V. KOLMAKOV, Cand. Sci. Biol.

STAFF numbers 39, including 4 Cand. Sci.

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES: To conserve the coastal flora and fauna, richest in species diversity for the Russia seas, and their natural environments; to preserve animals and plants of the reserved island areas; to describe the marine and island biocenoses of the reserve and to study their dynamics under the influence of natural and anthropogenic factors; to promote the concept of sea protection and to develop activity of the permanent exhibition on Popov island “Nature of the Sea and Sea Protection”.

The Institute has developed a project of organization of marine and complex reserves on the coasts of the far-eastern seas ( Acad. Alexey V. Zhimunsky).

Phone: 31-09-15