Anatoli Petrukovich

On May 30, 2025, the results of the elections to the Russian Academy of Sciences were announced. Dr. Anatoly Petrukovich, the director of the Space Research Institute, was elected Academician of the RAS. Dr. Maxim Litvak, the head of the laboratory in the IKI Department of Nuclear Planetology, elected Corresponding Member of the RAS.

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.

At the first plenary session Anatoly Petrukovich, IKI Director, spoke about scientific experiments and technological opportunities that can be done with spacecraft in low-Earth orbits.

Dr. Anatoly Petrukovich names IKI's 5+ main results and 5 most interesting events and trends in world space science and exploration.

Marcel Grossmann institutional award for the Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) mission was presented to IKI at the opening of the "High-Energy Astrophysics Today and Tomorrow" conference on December 23, 2024

Sitronics Space and IKI signed an agreement, under which a private company transfers the sets of the high-resolution Earth remote sensing data to be used for scientific research via shared research facility.

Presentation of the future monument and dedicated exhibition on September 4, 2024 at the Academician Keldysh Square in Moscow.

"Spacesuit" — this is the name of the sculpture, which was officially presented to IKI at the ceremony at Russian Academy Of Arts on July 3, 2024.