The Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPGG SB RAS), a federal state funded academic institution, was established pursuant to the RAS Presidium Resolution of November, 22, 2005, based on a merger of three RAS institutions —Institute of Petroleum Geology, Institute of Geophysics, and Design and Technology Institute for Environmental and Geophysical Instrument Engineering.
IPGG SB RAS succeeds the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG), Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, founded in 1957 by Academician Andrei A. Trofimuk, a highly reputed geologists who participated in the largest pioneering discoveries, among them: oil and gas bearing West Siberian basin, the Volga-Ural and Lena-Tunguska petroleum provinces.
The Institute got the name Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences by the Dec. 18, 2007 Resolution No. 274 of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
On December 29, 2011, the Institute was registered with the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (the main state registration number (OGRN) : 1065473056670) , and with the Federal Taxation Service Interdistrict Tax Inspectorate of Russia (No. 16 for the Novosibirsk region). The organizational structure of IPGG SB RAS includes the main premises based at Novosibirsk and divided into four main directions ─ divisions of Petroleum Geology, Stratigraphy & Paleontology, Geophysics, and Laboratory of Geodynamics &Paleomagnetism ─ and three subsidiaries: West Siberian Branch (Tyumen), Tomsk Branch (Tomsk) and Yamal Nenets Branch (Nadym).
The Institute has 36 research laboratories of which 30 are within the umbrella organization, two (2) at the Tomsk Branch , and three ( 3) at the West Siberian Branch. In addition, today the Institute owns the "Samoylov Island Research Station", and the Collective Use Center ‘‘GEOCHRON” (Collections of unique geological (paleontological, micropaleontological and palynological) materials from Siberia and Arctic regions)
The Institute carries out activities in accordance with the Statutes approved by Resolution No. 97 dated May, 28, 2008 of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as agreed with the Department of Earth Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Res. No. 13000/6-62.19 dated 22/05/ 2008) and the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, SB RAS (Res. No. 342 dated 19/ 05/2008).
On Dec. 16, 2021 Vyacheslav N. Glinskikh, RAS corr. member, was elected as Director of IPGG SB RAS.
At present, the Institute conducts both fundamental and applied research aimed at solving top priority scientific problems and practical issues related to social and economic development of Siberia and of the entire Russian Federation. According to the information from IPGG Personnel Department as of 31.12.2022 the number of employees working at the IPGG SB RAS and its subsidiaries totals 772, including 174 Candidate of Sciences (PhD), 329 research scientists, 65 Doctors of Sciences,. three (3) academicians (Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences), and eight (8) Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The bases and directions of the IPGG scientific activity were laid down by the academicians of RAS working there at different times who also made their significant individual contributions to the Institute’s achievements : A.A. Trofimuk, N.N. Puzyrev, S.V. Goldin, N.L. Dobretsov, A.E. Kontorovich, M.I. Epov.
