The Institute of Limnology is the leading scientific institution in Russia in the field of limnology. The Institute develops theoretical and applied bases of limnology, as well as methods of deep integrated research of structural and functional features of lake ecosystems, the restoration of lakes and storage reservoirs, their use in the drinking water supply, fish farming and recreation, performs monitoring and management of lakes and the rational use of their natural resources.

     The institute surveyed lakes and reservoirs practically in all regions of the former Soviet Union: Kamchatka, Sakhalin, the Far East, Kazakhstan, Pamir, Tien Shan, Ural, Kola peninsula, Taymyr, the European territory of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine. In cooperation with foreign experts we executed the scientific researches in Finland, Sweden, Turkey, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Mongolia, Canada, the USA, etc.

     We are ready to support new original scientific and applied projects and we are open for the mutually beneficial scientific cooperation.

Director of Institute
Corresponding Member of the RAS
Professor
Vladislav Alexandrovitch Rumyantsev

   Bioindication in monitoring of freshwater ecosystems II. Book of papers of the II International Conference. St. Petersburg. «Lubavich». 2011. – 2 pp. The edition contains selected proceedings of the II International Conference «Bioindicators in monitoring of freshwater ecosystems» (St. Petersburg, 10-14 October 2011) on a wide spectrum of modern problems of bioindication. Bio- logical methods of estimation of freshwater-bodies state are considered. The book is offered to specialists in study of water ecosystems, ecologists, hydrobi- ologists, ichthyologists and also teachers, post-graduates and students of educa- tional Institutions of ecological profile.