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RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Space Research Institute
Russian Academy of Sciences

Space Research Institute
Russian Academy of Sciences

News and Events (in Russian for the time being)

IKI Marks Its 60th Anniversary!

05/15/2025 - 01:00

Events

On May 15, 20205 IKI celebrates its birthday. The Institute was founded as a principal organisation for space research and exploration for fundamental science in the Academy of Sciences of the USSR under the Government Resolution from May 15, 1965 No. 392-147.
Experts Discuss The Plans For Future Space Exploration At IAF Forum

05/12/2025 - 17:00

Events

Anatoly Petrukovich, Director of IKI, discussed the problems of future space exploration at the plenary session 'Next Stop: The Moon and Beyond' on May 8, 2025, during the Global Space Exploration Conference — GLEX-2025, in New Delhi, India.
Venera Probe Is Back — Long Live Venus

05/11/2025 - 12:00

Events

On May 10, 2025, Kosmos-482 satellite, a twin spacecraft of Venera-8 interplanetary mission, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and fell into the Indian Ocean. It was launched in 1972, but remained in orbit around the Earth due to a malfunction of the upper stage. IKI scientistis give their comments on the event.
The Victory Day

05/09/2025 - 00:55

Events

Dear colleagues, dear friends. We congratulate you on Victory Day of the Great Patriotic War!
Twenty Second Meeting of Young Scientists at IKI

04/25/2025 - 19:30

Events

From April 21 to 23, the XXII Conference of Young Scientists "Fundamental and Applied Space Research" took place at IKI.
IKI Exhibits In Kaluga

04/22/2025 - 16:10

Events

From December 2024 to April 2025 IKI showed some of the items of its museum at the exhibition "The Sun and the lIfe of the Earth" at Konstantin Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics.
IKI Doors Open Day

04/12/2025 - 17:00

Save The Date

April 12, 2025, on the Cosmonautics Day, IKI opens its doors to everyone interested in space and science!
RSF Announces the Results of Three Grant Competitions

04/02/2025 - 16:54

Events

April, 2, 2025 Russian Science Foundation published the lists of winners of three grant competitions. Among the projects of the individual scientific groups to be supported by RSF are the projects led by IKI researchers.
20th conference «Plasma Physics in Solar System»

02/10/2025 - 11:00

Save The Date

On February 10–14, 2025 IKI hosts the 20th annual conference «Plasma Physics in Solar System».
Can We Cope With Asteroid 2024 YR4?

01/31/2025 - 13:12

Events

Asteroid 2024 YR4, first discovered on December 27, 2024, by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), has been drawing much attention ever since it was found to (possibly) impact the Earth in less than a decade.

IKI in Media Weekly Digests (in Russian)

28.03.2022 — 04.04.2022

April 4, 2022
21.03.2022 —28.03.2022

March 28, 2022
14.03.2022 — 21.03.2022

March 21, 2022
07.03.2022 — 14.03.2022

March 14, 2022

Conferences

IKI Media Service website (archive, in Russian)