News and Events (in Russian for the time being)

On October 16, 2025 Denis Sekirinsky, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, visited IKI.

On October 20–22, 2025, the final stage of the National Competition for Young Researchers and Developers "Step into the Future, JUNIOR" takes place in Moscow. IKI RAS is one of the host organizations for the "Physics and Space Exploration" section.

As today, October 10, World Space Week comes to an end, we congratulate everyone on the beginning of the space era and publish an image by the SPIN-X1-MVN X-ray monitor, which has been operating aboard the International Space Station since February 2025.

IKI researchers took part in the events of the "Laboratory of the Future: Russia's Space Era — New Horizons," which were held as part of the II International Symposium "Inventing the Future" on October 8, 2025, at the National Center Russia.

On 4 October 2025, in the day of the First Sputnik launch, IKI held an annual Doors Open Day for students and everybody interested in space.

On 2 October 2025, IKI RAS held a Space Science Day dedicated to the Institute’s 60th anniversary.

Mikhail Pavlinsly ART-XC X-ray telescope studies the properties of the nuclear stellar disc of the Milky Way.

The scientific debate "What Should the Modern System for Accounting Russia's Forests Be Like" was held at IKI RAS on 17 September 2025. Sergey Bartalev, head of a laboratory at IKI, gave a talk "The Potential of Remote Sensing Methods for the Unified System for Accounting Forests of Russia."

From 27 to 29 August 2025, the final of the nationwide project "Space Expedition of the First 2025" took place in Moscow, with about two hundred schoolchildren and students from 33 regions of the Russian Federation participating. IKI scientists gave lectures for the project participants.

On the morning of 29 August 2025, while loading oil onto the Turkish tanker T. Semahat at the CPC (Caspian Pipeline Consortium) marine terminal, a hose ruptured and oil spilled into the sea. Specialists from IKI and the P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the RAS monitor the area of the accident using the capabilities of the IKI-Monitoring Centre For Collective Use.