News and Events (in Russian for the time being)

On April 15, 2023 IKI welcomed everyone interested in space at our Doors Open Day dedicated to Yuri Gagarin's first flight in space. The program included tours around the exhibition and popular lectures about Moon exploration and astrochemistry, which are now available on the web (in Russian).

Today, April 12, 2023 we celebrate the 62nd year since Yuri Gagarin opened the space for mankind!
IKI hosts the XX conference of young scientists and, on April 15, Doors Open Day for everyone interested in space science. Also, IKI researchers give a series of popular lectures about space science.

5–8 апреля 2023 года в Институте космических исследований РАН прошел образовательный Интенсив для учеников «космических классов» Школы №60 Ростова-на-Дону.

From Marh 25 to April 6 IKI hosted a series of events for the students of 10th year, studying under Space Classes program, which is supported by the Department for Education of Moscow Governement.

In the end of March 2023 Russian Science Foundation published the lists of winners of three grant competitions. Among the 585 projects of the individual scientific groups to be supported by RSF are the projects led by IKI researchers.

On March 27–31, 2023 with the official opening ceremony the International Forum for Scientific Youth «Step into the Future», dedicated to the 135th anniversary of eminent aircraft designer Andrei Tupolev, started. On March 28, the participants of the two Forum's sections on space science and astrophysics presented their talks at IKI.

Russian Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC X-ray telescope onboard Spektr-RG observatory (Roscosmos) and Russian KONUS instrument onboard WIND spacecraft (NASA), residing in two opposite Lagrange points L1 and L2, have provided a detailed study of GRB 221009A — the brightest of all gamma-ray bursts previously registered by Konus and most likely the brightest one in the whole history of mankind.

A lecture for high school students at school 444, studying under Space Classes program, which is supported by the Department for Education of Moscow Governement, was held on March 17.

Ceremonial awarding was held on March 4, 2023 at MIPT's campus in Dolgoprudnyi.

On February 15-16, 2023 the conference "Carbon in Ground Exosystems: Monitoring", initiated by the Center of Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Sciences, took place at IKI.