RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE BIOSPHERE

Founded in 1991.

7 Malozemelnaya St., Novorossiisk, Krasnodarsky kray, Russia 353922

Director ALEKSEENKO, Vladimir Alekseevich, D.S. in Geology and Mineralogy, Prof.

Tel. (86134)3-03-03.

Staff: 11 members, incluing 1 with D.S. and 5 with Cand.S. degrees.

Institute’s main areas of research:

— environmental protection and rational use of natural resources;

— migration and concentration of chemical elements in natural and technogenic geochemical landscapes;

— metal accumulation by plants in different landscapes and geochemical conditions;

— prospecting and exploration of mineral deposits by geochemical methods.