On December 23, 2025, a meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences was held in Moscow. As part of the work of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the election of new candidates for Professors of the Russian Academy of Sciences was held. As a result of a secret ballot, Artur I. Novikov, PhD, a leading researcher at the Department of Agricultural Technology Management and Agromonitoring, was elected Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Agricultural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The staff of the Federal State Budgetary Budgetary Institution "Agrophysical Research Institute" sincerely congratulates Artur Igorevich on being awarded the honorary title of Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences and wishes him new scientific achievements.
On December 4, 2025, a solemn joint meeting of the Scientific Council of the Federal State Budgetary Budgetary Institution API, the Federal State Budgetary Institution Sevzapmelovodkhoz and veterans of the land reclamation industry, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the first state land reclamation organization of the Leningrad Region, took place in the assembly hall of the Federal State Budgetary Budgetary Institution Agrophysical Research Institute.
Yellow and red watermelons have been grown for the first time in the greenhouse of the new Vostok wintering complex in Central Antarctica. Crop yields were increased by 20% compared to the result obtained in 2023 at the previous plant. The work on growing fruit and berry crops within the framework of the Plants experiment is carried out jointly by scientists of the 70th Russian Antarctic Expedition of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, the Agrophysical Research Institute and the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
