News and Events (in Russian for the time being)

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.

Prof. Alexander Lutovinov, IKI deputy director and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, gave a presentation about the history and modern achievements of space science to the participants of the special program “300 Years of the RAS: A Fundamental View of the World,” organized by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Artek International Children's Center. He also answered the question — why study the Universe at all.

Two volcanoes on Kamchatka peninsula began erupting. On 30 July 2025 the Kluychevskoy volcano, and on 2 August the Krasheninnikov volcano — which had been dormant for more than 500 years. Scientists monitor these events, using among other methods the VolSatView monitoring system.

The successful launch of the second pair of Ionosphere‑M satellites, Nos. 3 and 4, of the Ionozond project took place on 25 July 2025. The scientific payload of these spacecraft includes two Ozonometer‑TM instruments for monitoring total ozone content in the Earth’s atmosphere.

Today at 08:54 MSK, the Soyuz-2.1b launcher with the Fregat upper stage, carrying the heliogeophysical spacecraft Ionosfera-M No. 3 and No. 4, and 18 small spacecraft was launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. The Fregat upper stage placed two Ionosfera-M No. 3 and No. 4 satellites into orbit, and they are under the control of the specialists at the Flight Control Center.

At the end of May 2025, an exhibition 'Man and Space: Discoveries and Achievements' opened at the State Memorial Museum of Herman Titov in Polkovnikovo, featuring exhibits from IKI and the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

On July 11, 2025 RSF announced the results of three competitions for young scientists. Among the winners are three projects, led by IKI scientists.

The Khludov Psalter is one of the earliest objects of Byzantine post-iconoclast art, created in Constantinople in the middle of the 9th century and now kept in the State Historical Museum. Thanks to the joint work of the Museum's and IKI scientists, the original illustrations hidden under the later images of the XIV century were revealed.

During its all-sky survey, Mikhail Pavlinsly ART-XC telescope aboard the Spektr-RG observatory discovered a previously unknown X-ray source, SRGA J230631.0+155633. Further studies revealed that this is one of the most powerful and interesting quasars that have existed in the Universe over the past five billion years.