Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring of Russia

The Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring of Russia (Roshydromet) (Russian: Федеральная служба по гидрометеорологии и мониторингу окружающей среды России (Росгидромет)) is a service in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment which carries out the functions of state property management and provision of public services in the field of hydrometeorology and related areas, monitoring of environmental environment pollution, public oversight of the work on modification of meteorological and other geophysical processes. It is Subordinated to the Government of Russia.

Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring has 17 research institutes, two of them have the status of the State Research Centre (Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia and the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute). The service operates six colleges (in the cities Aleksin, Vladivostok, Moscow, Irkutsk, Rostov, Tuapse) as well as a number of other supporting organizations.

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