Head 1 — research and educational oceanological institutions and their development prospects

• The chronicle of the meteorological observation network at the south-east Baltic coast
  
• Department of oceanology at SPbSU (LSU) — the first university department of oceanology the country
  
• Estonian maritime academy is a flagman of maritime education in Estonia
  
• The contribution of pinro’s field research in the XX century to the study of marine ecosystems in the Arctic and the North Atlantic
  
• Historical pages of sea landscapes studies
  
• Invisible image of the Earth in civilization of the XXI century
  
• Magmatism of the modern and ancient oceans — the problem and its discussion by russian scientists
  
• Fishery expedition — oceanologic research carried out by ATLANTNIRO in the Atlantic and Southern Pacific Oceans in the second half of the 20th century
  

Head 2 — the role of scientific-research fleet in the World Ocean exploration

• The first continuous measurements of geomagnetic field components performed aboard the non-magnetic schooner «zarya» in the world ocean
  
• The «Mikhail Lomonosov» — the first specialized scientific-research vessel of the sea hydrophysical institute
  
• The first case record of species — indicators for needs of domestic navy
  
• russian navy and knowledge of life of the southern seas. The first hydrobiological research in the black sea (1870—1902)
  
• The history of the cancelled complex oceanographic expedition of the scientific-research vessel «Vitiaz» in 1948—49
  
• On the history of pinro research fleet. The last gift from the ministry of fisheries
  
• The role of the P. P. Shirshiv institute of oceanology and the r/v «academik Kurchatov» in the study of oil-gas content prospects of the baltic sea
  

Head 3 — outstanding sea explorers and oceanologists: unknown pages

• RAS P. P. Shirshov institute of oceanology, Atlantic branch, Kaliningrad, Russia
  
• Shirshov institute of oceanology scientists 1946—2006: the experience analysis of biographic vocabulary
  
• The laboratory of atlantic hydrology in ioras and its supervisors: k. moroshkin and V. Bubnov — as we remember them
  
• F. F. Wrangel’, investigator of the Mediterranean and Black seas and the Sea of azov
• The lieutenant commander K. Staritsky’s contribution to the exploration of the far-east seas and ocean depths
  
• Russian period of the history of the villefranche-sur-mer oceanological station (1886—1930). Events and faces
• History of marine biological stations in the north of Russia in the mirrow of prof. K. Derjugin’s (1878—1938) life
• Joseph Billings — the first russian hydrographer in the Black sea
  

Head 4 — pressing problems of preservation and exploitation of historical ships

• Preservation experience of the archeological finding «ship of the XIX century»
  
• The museum and monument complex of the russian navy history (the Khimkinskoe water-storage basin, Moscow)
  
• The Ocean World in the museum interactive programmes for children
  
• Circulations for three seas: from experience of historical modelling and reconstruction of waterways of the central — East Europe
• The icebreaker Krasin, a department of the museum of the world ocean in Saint-Ppetersburg, Russia
  
• Natural science and history of the World Ocean exploration. Opportunities of study on the basis of expositional complexes of the museum of the World Ocean (the practice)
  
• Technical state assessment experience of ships’ hulls of big age
• Docking of the «Vityaz» in 2006
• Description of the ship’s research equipment aboard the srv «Vityaz»
• Preservation of historical ships in the museum of the World Ocean
  

Head 5 — current research

• Approach to assessment of sustainable development of the Baltic sea coastal zone
  
• Seasonal horizontal convection over the sea slope
  
• Comparative contribution of dynamic and biotic processes to space-time variability of chlorophyll fields in the baltic sea
  
• The composition and distribution of corals in the shallow-water kurile gas-hydrothermal vents
• About natural asymmetry for season variability of sea surface tempareature (the upper layer warming-up and cooling-down)
  
• Bioresource studies by atlantniro in the baltic sea in 1992—2006
  
• Innovation projects for coastal protection in the Kaliningrad oblast
  
• Investigation of the variability of near-surface meteorological conditions in the Baltic sea
  

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