Underwater Archaeological Heritage Centre
The Center for Underwater Archaeological Heritage of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences conducts field and office research in Russian waters to identify, study, and determine conservation measures for archaeological heritage sites.
The Center's objectives include: exploration, excavations, and observations as part of planned and rescue projects; and the development and testing of modern underwater archaeological research methods.
The Center has modern equipment for surveying waters: navigation receivers, side-scan sonar, a towed magnetometer, a magnetic variation station, a profiler, and an echo sounder.
The Center's staff conducts planned underwater research in the Kerch Strait and the Volkhov-Ilmensky Basin, as well as rescue operations as part of construction projects such as Nord Stream 1, Nord Stream 2, South/Turkish Stream, the Crimean Bridge, the Krasnodar Krai-Crimea gas pipeline, the Moscow-St. Petersburg high
The Center's objectives include: exploration, excavations, and observations as part of planned and rescue projects; and the development and testing of modern underwater archaeological research methods.
The Center has modern equipment for surveying waters: navigation receivers, side-scan sonar, a towed magnetometer, a magnetic variation station, a profiler, and an echo sounder.
The Center's staff conducts planned underwater research in the Kerch Strait and the Volkhov-Ilmensky Basin, as well as rescue operations as part of construction projects such as Nord Stream 1, Nord Stream 2, South/Turkish Stream, the Crimean Bridge, the Krasnodar Krai-Crimea gas pipeline, the Moscow-St. Petersburg high
