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).
Parin Nikolay Vasilievich (1932-2012)
Soviet and Russian ichthyologist
DSc (Biological Sciences)
Professor, Corresponding Member of RAS
Mikhail Vinogradov (1927-2007)
Bio-oceanologist
DSc (Biological Sciences)
Professor
Corresponding Member of RAS
Member of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945
Doctor of Geographical Sciences (1953), Professor (1954), Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1973), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1979)
from 1953 to 1965 - Director of the Institute of Oceanology