Laboratory staff: 8 employees, including one RAS corr. member, 1 doctor of science, 2 candidates of science, 1 graduate student..

• Sedimentology, postsedimentation processes.
• Petrography and mineralogy of clastic, clay and carbonate rocks.
• Paleogeography and paleotectonics.
• Geochemistry (including isotopic geochemistry) and minerageny of sedimentary sequences (magnetite, siderite, fluorite, etc.).