Agrophysical Research Institute
Агрофизический научно-исследовательский институт | |
| Formation | 1932 |
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| Founder | Abram Ioffe |
| Type | Federal State Scientific Institution |
| Purpose | Research and education |
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| Coordinates | 60°00′02″N 30°23′03″E / 60.00056°N 30.38419°E |
Director | Yury Valentinovich Chesnokov, 7-812-534-13-24, yuv_chesnokov@agrophys.ru |
Science Deputy Director | Natalia Petrovna Buchkina |
Scientific Secretary | Irina Valentinovna Tarasenkova |
Deputy Director | Sergey Nikolaevich Kovtuh |
Parent organization | Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Website | www |
The Agrophysical Research Institute (AFI, Агрофизический научно-исследовательский институт) is a public research and higher education facility dedicated to the study of agrophysics, agricultural sciences and research on physical problems of agriculture. The Institute was founded in 1932 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). The Institute is part of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences which, in 2013, became part of the Russian Academy of Sciences.