On April 6, 2022, the 87th R/V "Akademik Mstislav Keldysh" cruise ended. It lasted for 120 days, with the port of Kaliningrad as the place of departure and completion of the expedition.

The NSCMB FEB RAS expedition team was formed to participate in a large-scale scientific expedition to study resources of the Southern Ocean ecosystem. The team consisted of O.G. Borzykh, expedition leader, research scientist of the Laboratory of Marine Microbiota, V.V. Kasyan, researcher of the Laboratory of Systematics and Morphology, junior research scientist of the Laboratory of Pharmacology G.V. Malykin, junior research scientist of the Laboratory of Pharmacology N.A. Shved.

The expedition organization was funded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. Research by the NSCMB FEB RAS group is conducted within the framework of the state assignment "Biodiversity and Structure of Bottom Communities of the Southern Ocean". The team performed a variety of scientific tasks.

Expedition group photo.