home Research Services news Contacts Cooperation Research vessels Scientific potential Procurement Museum About the expedition Polar Marine Exploration Expedition General information. The Polar Marine Geological Prospecting Expedition (PMGE) was founded in 1962. The field of activity is complex geological and geophysical research in the Arctic (on the shelves and islands of the Arctic seas), in the World Ocean, in Antarctica, in the waters of inland water bodies and environmental monitoring using a variety of methods. The number of employees of the organization is 280 people, including 115 people - crews of ships. PMGRE searches for various types of mineral raw materials, as well as sunken objects, on the continental shelves and in the abyssal zones of the World Ocean. One of the main activities is carrying out marine seismic works. PMGRE also takes part in various engineering-geological and environmental projects, various studies carried out by order of Russian and foreign organizations. The expedition discovered and studied deposits of polymetals, gold, tin in the Arctic, complex polymetallic gold-silver-bearing ores and fields of ferromanganese nodules in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Extensive materials have been obtained for the solution of fundamental questions in the field of earth sciences. PMGRE has its own specially equipped vessels R / V Professor Logachev and R / V Akademik A. Karpinsky with high navigation autonomy, based in the port of St. Petersburg. PMGRE has on-board and ground computer centers equipped with modern systems for receiving, processing and presenting the received information, including the PROMAX-2D seismic data processing system. PMGE has its own field bases on the Spitsbergen archipelago and in Antarctica (Progress, Druzhnaya-4, Soyuz stations). The expedition has a large collection of samples from all regions of activity. The main office is located in the suburb of St. Petersburg - the city of Lomonosov. PMGE address details: 198412, St. Petersburg - Lomonosov, st. Victory 24 Phone: +7 (812) 4221282 Fax: +7 (812) 4231900 E-mail: root@polarex.spb.ru Charter: JSC "PMGE" Personal data processing policy Copyright © 1962-2018 Legal Notice .