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Cryolithozone

The permafrost zone is the upper layer of the earth’s crust, characterized by the negative temperature of rocks and soils and the presence or possibility of the existence of underground ice.

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Permafrost

The thickness of permafrost can reach hundreds of meters. It has been around for a very long time.

Institute of Biological Problems of the Cryolithozone, SB RAS, Yakutsk

The Institute was created in 1952 as the Institute of Biology of the Yakut Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences to study problems of soil science, botany, zoology, animal husbandry, biochemistry and plant physiology