Institute of Oceanology of the Rusian Academy of Sciences. The background of the institute history and its present position

Today, the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology is an ensemble of 1,300 employees numbering 110 doctors of sciences and 276 candidates of sciences of various disciplines. The Institute was established in 1946 on the basis of the Laboratory of Oceanology set up in 1941. P.P. Shirshov became the Institute’s first Director. The main objectives of the Institute lie in a complex study of the World Ocean and the Russian seas. About beginning of Institute of Oceanology and repression of P.P. Shirshov’s wife during 1946-48, daughter – Marina Shirshov published farther diary.