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.
From October 15 to 17, 2025, the XXXIV International Agroindustrial Exhibition AGRORUS-2025 was held at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center. This year, over 100 companies and scientific organizations from Russia, Belarus and China were represented at the site. Over three days, the event was attended by more than 3,000 specialists from the agro-industrial sector, representatives of networks, purchasing unions, industry associations and regional delegations. On October 5, the opening ceremony of the AGRORUS Exhibition took place with the participation of representatives of the executive authorities of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Rosselkhoznadzor, heads of agricultural universities and industry organizations, delegations of manufacturing enterprises and infrastructure partners.
С 17 по 19 сентября 2025 г. в ФГБНУ АФИ прошла V Международная научная конференция "Тенденции развития агрофизики: от актуальных проблем земледелия и растениеводства к технологиям будущего", организованная ФГБНУ АФИ, Минобрнауки РФ и Санкт-Петербургским отделением РАН.
16 Sep. 2025 the First Young Agrophysicists' School was held, jointly organized by FGBNU AFI, Young Scientists' Council of FGBNU AFI, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and Saint-Petersburg branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
From July 21 to July 25, 2025, an international scientific and practical conference was held - the X Siberian Pryanishnikov Agrochemical Readings "THE SCIENTIFIC LEGACY OF D.N. PRYANISHNIKOV AND THE PROSPECTS FOR RESEARCH ON AGROCHEMISTRY, SOIL FERTILITY AND AGRICULTURE IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CHALLENGES."
Scientific Petersburg Magazine.June 2025: Events/ Projects / Interview. All the significant events for the entire Russian scientific community, including the general meeting of members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the election of members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the results of the elections to the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the election of new members of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
By Resolution No. 9 of the Presidium of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences dated April 15, 2025, the SPbO RAS prizes named after outstanding scientists were awarded to young scientists in 2025.
On April 22, 2025, on the territory of Sputnik-Agro LLC (Lepsari village, Vsevolozhsky district, Leningrad Region) A meeting of the land reclamation section of the Scientific Council of the FSBSI API was held. The section was attended by scientists and specialists of the Committee for the Agro-Industrial and Fisheries Complex of the Leningrad Region (the Committee of the Agro-Industrial Complex), LENVODPROEKT LLC, Leningradsky Central Research University, professors and teachers of the Timiryazev Russian State Agricultural Academy, St. Petersburg State University, FSBEI HE PGUPS, scientists of the AFI Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution.
In February - early March 2025, the staff of the Federal State Budgetary Budgetary Institution "Agrophysical Research Institute" conducted a series of excursions through the departments of the Institute. So, the guests visited the Department of Plant Light Physiology and Bio-productivity of Agroecosystems and the Testing Laboratory of Biochemistry of Soil and Plant Systems, where they got acquainted with a number of achievements of scientists of the FSBSI API, who clearly and cognitively showed the guests their divisions and experiments conducted in them, and also answered all the questions that interested the guests.
On October 16, 2024, a joint meeting of the melioration section of the Academic Council of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Novgorod Region was held in Veliky Novgorod on the topic: "Current aspects of the implementation of the program for the development of decommissioned agricultural land in the Novgorod region."
On October 16, the solemn signing of the agreement on the establishment of the basic Department of Agrophysical Engineering at the Institute of Civil Engineering on the basis of the Federal State Budgetary Budgetary Institution "Agrophysical Research Institute" (API) took place. Rector Andrey Rudskoy and Director of the Institute of Civil Engineering Marina Petrochenko attended the event from SPbPU. AFI was represented by Director Yuri Chesnokov and leading researcher Tatyana Danilova.
For the first time, the IX International Congress "Weak and Ultraweak Fields and Radiation in Biology and Medicine", dedicated to its creator - Lidia Nikolaevna Gall (1934-2023), was held within the walls of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Agrophysical Research Institute" (FSBI API) from October 2 to 4, 2024, under the auspices of the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences.). The Co-chairs of the Program Committee made a welcoming speech: Director of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution AFI Yu.V. Chesnokov, who noted the importance of research on the effects of electromagnetic fields for applied agriculture and the agro-industrial complex of the Russian Federation as a whole, and Director of the Institute of Analytical Instrumentation of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.A. Evstrapov, who emphasized the key role of the development of theoretical concepts and experimental confirmations, as well as expressed hope for fruitful work and further development of this branch of modern science.
From 28th till 30th August at the Expoforum exhibition and convention centre in Saint-Petersburg the 33rd International Agroindustrial Exhibition "AGRORUS-2024" was held. The Agrophysics Institute is the most active participant of it.
We invite you to participate in the 5th International Conference"Agrophysics Trends: from actual challenges in arable farming and crop production towards advanced technologies", The Conference will take place at the Agrophysical Research Institute, Saint-Petersburg, on 17-19 September 2025.
