Parin Nikolay Vasilievich (1932-2012)

Soviet and Russian ichthyologist
DSc (Biological Sciences)
Professor, Corresponding Member of RAS

Ozmidov Rostislav Vsevolodovich (1928-1998)

Soviet and Russian scientist-oceanologist, organizer, theorist and experimenter.
DSc (Physical and Mathematical Sciences), Professor. Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, since 1991 - RAS.

Zonenshain Lev Pavlovich (1929-1993)

geologist, corresponding member of RAS
specialist in geology and tectonics of oceans and continents

Bogorov Veniamin Grigorevich (1904-1971)

bio-oceanologist, DSc (Biological sciences) (1940),
Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1958), State Prize Laureate (1951), Lomonosov Prize Laureate (1965),
one of the founders of the Institute
Deputy Director (1946-1961), Head of the Plankton Laboratory (1961-1971).

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Bezrukov Panteleimon Leonidovich (1909-1981)

DSc (Geological and Mineralogical Sciences) (1947)
corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1969)
thrice winner of the USSR State Prize (1946, 1951, 1977)

Geodekyan Artem Aramovich (1914-1997)

Geophysicist, geologist
Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Professor
Honorary Oilman of the USSR, Corresponding Member of RAS

Sergey Leonidovich Soloviev (1930-1994)

Outstanding scientist, organizer of science, teacher and leader of research teams.
1978-1994 Head of the Laboratory of Seismology of the Institute of Oceanology of RAS, created by him.
1985 to 1994 he was also the Head of the Department of Geophysics of the IO RAS.
Academician of RAS

Mikhail Vinogradov (1927-2007)

Bio-oceanologist
DSc (Biological Sciences)
Professor
Corresponding Member of RAS

Leonid M. Brekhovskikh (1917-2005)

Outstanding scientist in the field of physics, ocean acoustics, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, academician-secretary of the Department of Oceanology, Atmospheric Physics and Geography of the USSR Academy of Sciences, member of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, advisor to the Presidium of RAS, director of the Acoustics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, head of the laboratory of Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of RAS. Hero of Socialist Labor. Lenin Prize Laureate.