Ongoing scientific projects:

► President of Russian Federation grant for Leading Scientific Schools:

• S.V. Krivovichev: Structural studies of minerals and their analogues in a wide range of temperatures and pressures (2020-2021).

► Russian Science Foundation:

• S.V. Krivovichev: Structural complexity of minerals: theoretical and experimental studies (2019-2021);
• O.V. Frank-Kamenetskaya: Modern mineral formation with the participation of microorganisms (2019-2021);
• V.V. Gurzhiy: Secondary minerals and technogenic mineral phases of uranium: structural and chemical diversity and stability factors (2018-2020);
• S.N. Britvin: Natural phosphides as indicators of evolution of the matter of planetary systems (2018-2020);
• O.I. Siidra: Minerals and inorganic compounds with sulfate and chromate anions: structural diversity, crystal chemistry, properties (2016-2020);
• A.R. Izatulina: Crystal genesis of kidney stones minerals (2018-2020);
• L.A. Gorelova: Phase transitions of gadolinite- and feldspar-group minerals under high-temperature and / or high-pressure conditions (2019-2021).

► Russian Foundation for Basic Research:

• A.A. Zolotarev: rystal chemistry of technogenic minerals of burned dumps of the Chelyabinsk coal basin (2019-2021);
• O.I. Siidra: Exhalation copper minerals with tetrahedral oxoanions as prototypes of magnetic materials (2019-2021):
• S.K. Filatov: Linear and nonlinear optical, luminescent, ion-conducting and magnetic mineral-like functional materials based on borates and arsenates: composition-structure-properties (2018-2020).