Research Vessel “G.Yu.Vereshchagin”

The international student web-expedition "Class@Baikal" will be carried out onboard the research vessel "G. Yu. Vereshchagin". It is one of the largest research vessels on Baikal. The vessel belongs to the Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LIN SB RAS).

Displacement of the vessel is 360 t. There are 6 equipped laboratories for comfortable work of 15 researchers onboard. RV “G. Yu. Vereshchagin" is equipped with the echo-sounder, radars, meteorological stations, hydrological deep-water winches, trawling wire winch and the deep-water anchor devices.

The vessel is named after Gleb Yuryevich Vereshchagin - the famous researcher of Baikal, hydro-biologist, limnologist, Doctor of Sciences, professor. He was a head of the Baikal limnological station of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR from 1930 to 1944. He has introduced and was defending the hypothesis about primary marine origin of the majority of Baikal endemic species. His main scientific publications are devoted to ice regime of the lake, dynamics and morphology of coast, hydrobiology. Gleb Yuryevich Vereshchagin has compiled the bathymetric map of Baikal which gives the main idea about a relief of the lake floor.