🚮 👩‍👧 👇🏽 Who, how and on what explored the world's oceans

Greetings, dear ones!

“It threw me out of the cab then, he thought for the thousandth time. He hit something with his head, so I never recovered ... ”(C) ABS,“ Snail on the slope ”

While coronavirus plows the vast expanses of the planet, I suggest from one perspective to look at how we (humanity) have explored the world's oceans.

As a matter of duty, I need data on the temperature and salinity of water with the maximum coverage over the territory, and the only place I know where such data can be taken quite freely is the database of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration .

This time, for the sake of interest, I decided not to be limited to the necessary and showed a certain greed.

Who, how, when and on what explored the world's oceans: a list of expeditions from 1772 to 2018 by country, interesting details and a small statistical analysis - under the cut!

0. Foreword

First, I’ll briefly describe where what data is and how it is organized. So that anyone can repeat and double-check my results.

In fact, I didn’t plan to parse data that wasn’t directly required for me, but since my youth I have been drinking an unquenchable thirst for various global tables and lists.

The data that I was really interested in is distributed in CSV and looks something like this:

Example

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------,
CAST                        ,,        9924751,WOD Unique Cast Number,WOD code,
NODC Cruise ID              ,,ZA-7283        ,,,
Originators Station ID      ,,SFIa12718      ,,,alpha,
Originators Cruise ID       ,,2001/0022      ,,,
<b>Latitude                    ,,      -33.33430,decimal degrees,,
Longitude                   ,,        28.1325,decimal degrees,,
Year                        ,,           1992,,,
Month                       ,,              1,,,</b>
Day                         ,,             12,,,
Time                        ,,         9.8167,decimal hours (UT),,
METADATA,
Country                     ,,             ZA,NODC code,SOUTH AFRICA
Accession Number            ,,          1407.,NODC code,,
Platform                    ,,          6655.,OCL code,AFRICANA I,
Institute                   ,,          1167.,NODC code,SEA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE (SFRI) - CAPE TOWN,
probe_type                  ,,             4.,OCL_code,CTD,
Instrument       ,Temperature,             4.,WOD code,CTD: TYPE UNKNOWN,
Instrument          ,Salinity,             4.,WOD code,CTD: TYPE UNKNOWN,
VARIABLES ,Depth     ,F,O,Temperatur ,F,O,Salinity   ,F,O,,
UNITS     ,m         , , ,degrees C ,, , ,PSS       ,, , ,,
Prof-Flag ,          ,0, ,          ,0, ,          ,0, ,,
         1,      <b>1.00,0, ,     26.41,0, ,    35.298,0, ,</b>
         2,      <b>2.00,0, ,     26.24,0, ,    35.298,0, ,</b>
       . . .
      1193,  <b> 1193.00,0, ,      3.52,0, ,    34.656,0, ,</b>
      1194,   <b>1194.00,0, ,      3.51,0, ,    34.656,0, ,</b>
END OF VARIABLES SECTION,

Similar castes (Casts) are collected in files with sizes of 600-700 MB, and the fields that directly interest me, I highlighted in bold: these are geographical coordinates, temperature / salinity measurements in depth and, to a lesser extent, year and month of measurements.

A query can be generated on the World Ocean Database select and search page . I selected all the data that is available by salinity and temperature: OSD and CTD / XCTD datasets .

The selection is not instantaneous: download links came to my mail in about a day and a half. The total volume in the unpacked form ~ 28 GB.

The database contains data from 1961 to 2010, as I understand it, they don’t just distribute data for the last 10 years to everyone they meet.

So, in order to parse data, there are two very useful documents:

And something caught me - the headlines of the castes contain information about the country on whose behalf the expedition (Cruise) was carried out, the platform (Platform) - the ship, ice or stationary station from which measurements were made and even the institution (Institute) responsible for the measurements.

Fortunately, all listings are also available .
In my opinion, the most interesting of them is this one .

It contains records of expeditions since 1772 (CARL!). And the earliest of them looks like this:

CC Cruise	Institute	Platform	#Stations	Accession #	Start_date	End_date	WMO	Origigcode
GB-11003		8152	3	571	12/15/1772	1/13/1773

If we turn to the list of platforms , we will find that the vessel in question is none other than the HMS Resolution ! The same on which ~~long-distance captain~~ James Cook managed to swim .

The dataset is far from ideal: some of the entries are incomplete. 8 thousand out of almost 215 do not have a country (code 99), 50 pieces are marked as “Miscellaneous organization”.

At first I tried to identify the missing countries by the code of the institute, but it was expected that the same institutes are indicated as managing organizations in expeditions of different countries.

Then I tried to recover the country code from the platform code, there was already a one-to-one correspondence: one platform - one country. And, that could be understood right away, all the platform codes that were found in the “Wakanda” (country with code 99) ... correctly, they were found only in this country.

Further, another funny moment came to light: the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire and the Russian Federation, judging by the dataset, from time to time existed in parallel: several dozen expeditions with the RU country code had start / end dates from 1921 to 1991, and vice versa - a few Dozens of expeditions with dates after 1991 had the country code SU.

In this regard, I allowed myself the only editing of data relating only to records with the code of the countries RU and SU (since I believe that I have moral right to this - in RU I am a citizen, and in SU I was born): if the year in the interval from 1921 to 1991, then the country code is set as SU, but if you get an entry with the SU code outside this interval, then the country code is replaced with RU.

I took the official year of the formation of the Soviet Union, although, of course, there are a small number of expeditions in the period directly from 1917 to 1922 - they were all marked by me as RU, exactly like a small number of expeditions on behalf of SU in the period after 1991.

I did not begin to correct another class of errors that I noticed: for example, several dozen expeditions, from 1983 to 1988, are marked with the UA code. This is from the conspicuous.

Also, it is obvious that the base is not complete, most likely with a bias towards the United States for purely technical reasons. But we work with what we have and, if possible, check it from other sources.

I put the data that I had to shovel (for example, slightly change the date format, etc.), the xlsx files with summary data and graphs to my github, and put all the links at the end of the article.

In general, this concludes the introduction and description of all conditions. We pass to the most interesting. I set a goal to see all the dynamics. Let's get started. Let's start with the average total "temperature in the hospital."

1. Pioneers rating

The first thing that comes to mind when looking at the data is to build a rating of countries by joining the ocean research circle. According to the spoiler above, everyone understands that the first in the ranking is Great Britain. The first twenty, covering the period from 1772 to 1902, is as follows:

Country	First cruise	Platform	Platform name
Great britain	1772	8152	HMS Resolution (Launched 1770 \| ex.HMS Drake 12.1771)
Russian Federation / Empire	1816	8141	Ryurik (Alt.name Rurik \| brig \| launched 11/5/1815)
unknown	1817	8153	Altseste
France	1826	4043	Astrolabe (Built 1811 \| scientific voyages 1822-1825 \| 1826-1829 \| 1837-1840)
United states	1839	8146	Vincent and peacok
Austria	1857	8144	Novara
Sweden	1860	6232	Falsterborev L / V (Light vessel)
Norway	1867	8939	Isbjornen
Denmark	1868	1265	Research vessels in greenland
Korea	1869	1115	Pukhansan ho
Germany	1874	296	Gazelle
Netherlands	1882	8598	Varna (There is a forum thread and a link to a sister who tried to save Varna from ice captivity, but was unable to
Japan	1884	0	No data
Italy	1884	0	No data
Australia	1886	536	Buccaneer
Finland	1891	4021	Storkallegrund l / s
Monaco	1892	6916	Princess alice
Belgium	1898	8679	Belgica (cruises prior to 1984)
Argentina	1902	473	Antarctica
Ireland	1905	0	No data

Superficial googling by the names of the vessels made it possible to find some of them, I entered the links in the table.

2. Who has more

Further, you can compare the total number of expeditions for all countries. It is much more informative, in my opinion, to watch the change over the years. Since the time period is long, I divided it into two intervals: before 1900 and after. Actually, until 1900 there is nothing special to watch:

Since the beginning of the 20th century, there has been rapid growth and there are already too many countries. So that the charts do not merge into a colored mess, I divided them into groups of 8 pieces, having previously sorted them by the total number of expeditions for the entire period.

So, the first eight, which included the United States, Japan, the Soviet Union, Canada, France, Great Britain, Australia and Germany.

I excluded Wakanda, which was located after Great Britain, from this eight, which allowed me to squeeze into the German group.

The second eight included Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Liberia, Peru, Korea, the Netherlands and Panama. New Caledonia was located between Korea and the Netherlands, but it had to be excluded from the rating, since neither the start date nor the end date was filled out.

India, Argentina, South Africa, China, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Russian Federation settled in the third eight.

It turns out that with the exception of China in the third group, all countries have “eyes on the sunset”, the same can be said about the fourth group (yes, in general, about all the data in general).

Further, down the rating, I do not see the point of considering the data in the same vein - an inquisitive reader can do it himself.

For the rest, after a brief excursion into history, I propose a closer look at the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.

3. Who on what

I thought for a long time: it seemed to me that all this is extremely uninformative and very close to the average temperature in the hospital. Or something like the total temperature of patients in all hospitals in the country for N years.

Ultimately, I came to the conclusion that you can select unique platforms (ships, ice stations, etc.) by identifier and see how their number changes from year to year. To do this, we again return to the base of the expeditions. This time I have been reviewing all the data since 1900.

As a result, for the first five countries the following picture is obtained:

Second five:

Third:

And the fourth five (without the “Wakanda”):

"And then Ostap suffered ..." (C)

Further, I ask the reader to take it calmly (without losing a sense of humor).

While I was doing this article and was mired in data, YouTube was working in the background and I came across the chart of the rate of return in the US non-financial sector (Return rate). I processed it with an Indian digitizer and “filed it to business”. Here's what happened: The

inverse correlation between 1943 and 1999 seemed too obvious to me.
Then I took data on the unemployment rate in the USA from Wikipedia , also processed it with a digitizer, normalized to unity and got the following picture:

It is also difficult not to notice the inverse correlation. On the other hand: nothing surprising - research funding and the health of the economy are very closely linked. I see this as a kind of cross-validation of data.

And how are things going with us? And see for yourself:

Offhand, I don’t even remember the more obvious schedule.

What else to compare? Here, for example, with oil prices (US data for comparison):

I took oil prices from Wikipedia .

I am not an economist at all, my job is to develop sonar and navigation systems, so it will be interesting to know the opinions of the people involved.

All that remains ...

Of course, ice stations formed by casting a group of researchers are not quite correctly compared with large research vessels (such as the Academician Ioffe ). Ideally, you need to understand in detail with each individual platform, which is less than real in my case.

Here I threw only the most superficial look at the quality composition of the platforms and only for my country.

Obviously, I cannot list all the platforms of the Soviet period - for 1991, judging by the data, there were more than a hundred of them. Let's see what platforms were used in research in the post-Soviet period.

I selected all platforms from 1991 to 2018. Almost all of them are easily located on marinetraffic.com, either by name or byIMO code . For most ships, a brief history and fate is described there.

Table of research platforms tried on in the Russian Federation since 1991

1992
WOD Code	Name	Built
6948	NIKOLAY RESHETNYAK	1970
6575	GEORGIY USHAKOV (R/V\|c.s.ERET\| built 1971\| ex.Shkval 1974\|IMO7117371\| Odessa)	1971
6362	PROFESSOR MULTANOVSKIY (R/V\|c.s.UJFO\|built 1983\|new c.s.UCLA\|IMO8010362)Q	1983
6342	DALNIYE ZELYENTSY (R/V\|call sign UTPB\|built 1978\|new c.s.UHZH\|IMO7740477)	1978
7693	PROFESSOR KAGANOVSKIY (R/V\| call sign UTTW\|built 1987\| new c.s.UDDH\|IMO8607012)	1987
6941	POLTAVA (F/V\| call sign ESEG\|built 1969\|launched as Kondor\|IMO7006596)	1969
6395	ODESSA (EWBK)
6579	VSEVOLOD BERYEZKIN (R/V\|c.s.\|b.1975\|IMO7524378\|flag USSR\|Russ.Feder 1992-)	1975
6421	AKADEMIK IOFFE (R/V\|call sign UKLP\|built 1989\|decomm-d 1992\|IMO8507731)	1989
6632	VLADIMIR PARSHIN (R/V\|c.s.UINF\|b.1989\|decomm-d 1992\|new c.s.EOHF\|IMO8606587)	1989
7522	PROFESSOR LEVANIDOV (R/V\| c.s.UYWE\| built 06.1987\| new c.s.UDDJ\| IMO8607062)	1987
6437	AKADEMIK M.A. LAVRENTYEV (R/V\|c.s.UJFY\|b.1984\|decomm-d 1992\|IMO8211162)	1984
6519	PINRO (R/F/V\| call sign UYSC\| built 1987\| IMO8607103)	1987
6336	AKADEMIK SHULEYKIN (C.s.UBNZ\|built 1982\|n.name Polyarnyy Pioner 2001\|IMO8010324)	1982
6450	MYS BABUSHKINA (F/V\| call sign UWFH\| built 1978\| IMO7733539)	1978
6501	PRILIV (R/V\| call sign EREC\| built 05.1969\| new c.s.UHIR\| IMO6916574)	1969
6432	KAPITAN SHAYTANOV (F/V\| call sign UFYN\| built 12.1985\| IMO8723622)	1985
6305	AKADEMIK FYODOROV (R/V\| c.s.UQYC\| built 1987\| new c.s.UCKZ\| IMO8519837)	1987
6332	AKADEMIK ALEKSANDR NESMEYANOV (R/V\| call sign UBYK\| built 04.1982\|IMO7826300)	1982
6333	AKADEMIK ALEKSANDR VINOGRADOV (R/V\|c.s.UYEV\|new c.s.UABE\|built 1983\|IMO7826312)	1983
6599	YAKOV GAKKEL (R/V\|c.s.UVMM\|b.1975\|IMO7611315\|fl.USSR\|Ukraine 1993-2007)	1975
7457	GRUMANT II (Research vessel)
7740	OSIPENKO
6326	VIKTOR BUYNITSKIY (R/V\|call sign UZDV\|built 1986\|new c.s. UAJX\|IMO8422448)	1986
7112	LEONID SOBOLEV
6422	ERNST KRENKEL (R/V\|c.s.EREU\|built1971\|ex.Vikhr 1972\|n.c.s.EOGQ\|IMO7205685)	1971
6593	VITYAZ (R/V\| built 1981\| IMO7826295)	1981
6420	AKVANAVT (R/V\| call sign UMSK\| built 1976\| new call sign UIOJ\| IMO7640500)	1976
403	LUETJENS
1993
6578	VIKTOR BUGAYEV (R/V\|c.s.ERES\|b.1971\|ex.Poryv 1976\|decomm-d 1993\|IMO7048427)	1971
6326	VIKTOR BUYNITSKIY (R/V\|call sign UZDV\|built 1986\|new c.s. UAJX\|IMO8422448)	1986
8125	ICE STATION WEDDELL-1 ICE CAMP (RUSSIA)
6362	PROFESSOR MULTANOVSKIY (R/V\|c.s.UJFO\|built 1983\|new c.s.UCLA\|IMO8010362)Q	1983
7600	GEOLOG FERSMAN (R/V\| call sign UKKI\| built 1985\|new c.s.UILY\|IMO8423234)!	1985
6522	PROFESSOR MARTI (R/V\| c.s.UTTQ\|built 1987\| IMO8606991\| Lloyd's 1990-91)	1987
6930	PANTIKAPEY (F/V\| call sign UURM\| built 1972\| IMO7226172)Q	1972
7740	OSIPENKO
6585	VENERA (R/V\|c.s.UZFA\|b.1979\|r-ed Neptun 1988\|IMO7741457)!	1979
6501	PRILIV (R/V\| call sign EREC\| built 05.1969\| new c.s.UHIR\| IMO6916574)	1969
9510	AKADEMIK ALEKSANDR SIDORENKO (R/V\|c.s.UEQL\|built 1985\|former c.s.UYTS\|IMO8330231	1985
6420	AKVANAVT (R/V\| call sign UMSK\| built 1976\| new call sign UIOJ\| IMO7640500)	1976
6632	VLADIMIR PARSHIN (R/V\|c.s.UINF\|b.1989\|decomm-d 1992\|new c.s.EOHF\|IMO8606587)	1989
6342	DALNIYE ZELYENTSY (R/V\|call sign UTPB\|built 1978\|new c.s.UHZH\|IMO7740477)	1978
10243	AYSBERG-2 (Tug\|comm-d 10.1982\|length 21\|Arkhangelsk)	1982
6332	AKADEMIK ALEKSANDR NESMEYANOV (R/V\| call sign UBYK\| built 04.1982\|IMO7826300)	1982
7699	TINRO (Call sign UDDL\| old call sign UYVO\| built 1987\| IMO8607086)	1987
6334	AKADEMIK MSTISLAV KELDYSH (R/V\| call sign UFJI\| built 12.1980\| IMO7811018)	1980
6484	OKEAN
8554	IVAN KIREYEV (R/V\| call sign UCYO\|built 05.1977\|Former c.s.UWHT\|IMO7423275)	1977
7534	DMITRIY OVTSYN (R/V\| call sign UTBS\| built 1970\|new c.s.UIOM\|IMO7019074)Q	1970
6404	GORDIENKO
8552	PAVEL BASHMAKOV (R/V\|call sign EUUL\|built 06.1977\|new c.s.UCYN\|IMO7423287)	1977
6521	PROFESSOR SHTOKMAN (R/V\|call sign UUOM\|built 1979\|new call sign UAUQ\|IMO7703027)	1979
6593	VITYAZ (R/V\| built 1981\| IMO7826295)	1981
6744	ICE CAMP
1994
6930	PANTIKAPEY (F/V\| call sign UURM\| built 1972\| IMO7226172)Q	1972
7739	ARSHINCEVO (ARSHINTSEVO\| call sign ENEX)!
6744	ICE CAMP
6420	AKVANAVT (R/V\| call sign UMSK\| built 1976\| new call sign UIOJ\| IMO7640500)	1976
6579	VSEVOLOD BERYEZKIN (R/V\|c.s.\|b.1975\|IMO7524378\|flag USSR\|Russ.Feder 1992-)	1975
6585	VENERA (R/V\|c.s.UZFA\|b.1979\|r-ed Neptun 1988\|IMO7741457)!	1979
6334	AKADEMIK MSTISLAV KELDYSH (R/V\| call sign UFJI\| built 12.1980\| IMO7811018)	1980
6305	AKADEMIK FYODOROV (R/V\| c.s.UQYC\| built 1987\| new c.s.UCKZ\| IMO8519837)	1987
6437	AKADEMIK M.A. LAVRENTYEV (R/V\|c.s.UJFY\|b.1984\|decomm-d 1992\|IMO8211162)	1984
7575	SHUTTLE KARLSTAD
10243	AYSBERG-2 (Tug\|comm-d 10.1982\|length 21\|Arkhangelsk)	1982
7053	IVAN PETROV (R/V\| call sign UROV\| built 03.1989\| new c.s.UFNP\|IMO8606575)	1989
10489	KARTESH (R/V\|call sign UBXJ\|built 12.1973\|comm-d 1992\|decomm-d 12.2011)	1973
6591	VADIM POPOV (R/V\|call sign UZCB\|built 1986\|new c.s.UDBL\|IMO8422436)	1986
6362	PROFESSOR MULTANOVSKIY (R/V\|c.s.UJFO\|built 1983\|new c.s.UCLA\|IMO8010362)Q	1983
8564	SHURSHA (F/V\| call sign UGDJ\| built 1985\|former c.s.UKXD\| IMO8727678)	1985
7138	PAVEL GORDIENKO (R/V\|call sign UHIQ\| built 03.1987\|former c.s.UQHM\|IMO8422450)	1987
7522	PROFESSOR LEVANIDOV (R/V\| c.s.UYWE\| built 06.1987\| new c.s.UDDJ\| IMO8607062)	1987
6640	PROFESSOR BOGOROV (R/V\| call sign UWJE\| built 1976\| IMO7406124)	1976
1995
7739	ARSHINCEVO (ARSHINTSEVO\| call sign ENEX)!
6744	ICE CAMP
6420	AKVANAVT (R/V\| call sign UMSK\| built 1976\| new call sign UIOJ\| IMO7640500)	1976
6437	AKADEMIK M.A. LAVRENTYEV (R/V\|c.s.UJFY\|b.1984\|decomm-d 1992\|IMO8211162)	1984
7800	GS-440
6650	PROFESSOR KIZEVETTER (R/V\|call sign UTTM\|built 1987\|new c.s.UDDI\| IMO8607036)	1987
7138	PAVEL GORDIENKO (R/V\|call sign UHIQ\| built 03.1987\|former c.s.UQHM\|IMO8422450)	1987
6334	AKADEMIK MSTISLAV KELDYSH (R/V\| call sign UFJI\| built 12.1980\| IMO7811018)	1980
10489	KARTESH (R/V\|call sign UBXJ\|built 12.1973\|comm-d 1992\|decomm-d 12.2011)	1973
8564	SHURSHA (F/V\| call sign UGDJ\| built 1985\|former c.s.UKXD\| IMO8727678)	1985
9375	GIDROFIZIK
7164	DONUZLAV
7535	YAKOV SMIRNITSKIY (R/V\|call sign UVWL\|built 1977\|IMO7423299)	1977
7053	IVAN PETROV (R/V\| call sign UROV\| built 03.1989\| new c.s.UFNP\|IMO8606575)	1989
7796	YASNOGORSK (F/V\|c.s.UHUT\|b.1972\|ren-d Orion 2005\|decc-d 2007\|IMO7235484)1	1972
9513	YANTAR (R/V\|call sign UEQE\|built 1975\|IMO7524419)	1975
7520	R/V GS-194
8553	KAPITAN DRANITSYN (Built 1980\| IMO7824405)	1980
1996
6326	VIKTOR BUYNITSKIY (R/V\|call sign UZDV\|built 1986\|new c.s. UAJX\|IMO8422448)	1986
9513	YANTAR (R/V\|call sign UEQE\|built 1975\|IMO7524419)	1975
7561	RYBNOYE (F/V\|call sign EVWN\|built 1974\|renamed Meridian 2005 c.s.UGKB\|IMO7421215	1974
6306	ARKTIKA
7739	ARSHINCEVO (ARSHINTSEVO\| call sign ENEX)!
7535	YAKOV SMIRNITSKIY (R/V\|call sign UVWL\|built 1977\|IMO7423299)	1977
7693	PROFESSOR KAGANOVSKIY (R/V\| call sign UTTW\|built 1987\| new c.s.UDDH\|IMO8607012)	1987
7524	YUZHMORGEOLOGIYA (R/V\| call sign UBSZ\| built 1985\| IMO8724482)	1985
7777	PETR KOTSOV (UOTE) (aka PETR KOTTSOV\| PYOTR KOTTSOV)
1997
6422	ERNST KRENKEL (R/V\|c.s.EREU\|built1971\|ex.Vikhr 1972\|n.c.s.EOGQ\|IMO7205685)	1971
7739	ARSHINCEVO (ARSHINTSEVO\| call sign ENEX)!
9927	ATLANTNIRO (F/V\|call sign UHOB\|built 06.1987\|comm-d 01.1992\|IMO8607050)	1987
7795	SOVETSKIY SOYUZ (Icebreaker\|c.s. UCJJ\|built 12.1989\|old c.s.UUQL\|IMO8838582)	1989
7068	POMOR
7521	AKADEMIK BORIS PETROV (R/V\|call sign UDVX\|built 06.1984\|old c.s.UKSY\|IMO8211150)	1984
7522	PROFESSOR LEVANIDOV (R/V\| c.s.UYWE\| built 06.1987\| new c.s.UDDJ\| IMO8607062)	1987
6342	DALNIYE ZELYENTSY (R/V\|call sign UTPB\|built 1978\|new c.s.UHZH\|IMO7740477)	1987
8850	AKADEMIK SERGEY VAVILOV (R/V\|c.s.UAUO\|old c.s.UKOC\|built 1988\|IMO8507729)	1988
8564	SHURSHA (F/V\| call sign UGDJ\| built 1985\|former c.s.UKXD\| IMO8727678)	1985
9341	GEOPHYSICIST (R/V)
7693	PROFESSOR KAGANOVSKIY (R/V\| call sign UTTW\|built 1987\| new c.s.UDDH\|IMO8607012)	1987
1998
7793	VAYGACH (Icebreaker\| call sign UBNY\| built 1990\| IMO 8417493)	1990
6422	ERNST KRENKEL (R/V\|c.s.EREU\|built1971\|ex.Vikhr 1972\|n.c.s.EOGQ\|IMO7205685)	1972
6728	ATLANTIDA
7794	ROSSIYA (Icebreaker\|call sign UPIG\|built 1985\|new c.s.UCJU\|IMO8424240)	1985
9346	HYDROPHYSICIST (R/V)
7739	ARSHINCEVO (ARSHINTSEVO\| call sign ENEX)!
9359	PROGRESS (motor boat)	lol
6352	PROFESSOR KHROMOV (R/V\|c.s.UWEC\|built 03.1983\|decomm-d 1992\|IMO8010350)	1983
7571	PROFESSOR LOGACHEV (R/V\| c.s.UADZ\|built 12.1990\|former c.s.UPJY\|IMO8834691)	1990
9926	PROFESSOR SHTOKMAN (R/V\|call sign UAUQ\|built 1979\|old c.s.UUOM\|IMO7703027)	1979
7699	TINRO (Call sign UDDL\| old call sign UYVO\| built 1987\| IMO8607086)	1987
6305	AKADEMIK FYODOROV (R/V\| c.s.UQYC\| built 1987\| new c.s.UCKZ\| IMO8519837)	1987
1999
7739	ARSHINCEVO (ARSHINTSEVO\| call sign ENEX)!
7573	HOOD (CCGS\|call sign CG2845\|built 1986\|decomm-d 07.2002\|IMO8702068)	1986
9927	ATLANTNIRO (F/V\|call sign UHOB\|built 06.1987\|comm-d 01.1992\|IMO8607050)	1987
9323	ZODIAK (Motor boat)	lol
7521	AKADEMIK BORIS PETROV (R/V\|call sign UDVX\|built 06.1984\|old c.s.UKSY\|IMO8211150)	1984
6352	PROFESSOR KHROMOV (R/V\|c.s.UWEC\|built 03.1983\|decomm-d 1992\|IMO8010350)	1983
7571	PROFESSOR LOGACHEV (R/V\| c.s.UADZ\|built 12.1990\|former c.s.UPJY\|IMO8834691)	1990
2000
9927	ATLANTNIRO (F/V\|call sign UHOB\|built 06.1987\|comm-d 01.1992\|IMO8607050)	1987
6352	PROFESSOR KHROMOV (R/V\|c.s.UWEC\|built 03.1983\|decomm-d 1992\|IMO8010350)	1983
9322	GROZA (Motor felucca)
6421	AKADEMIK IOFFE (R/V\|call sign UKLP\|built 1989\|decomm-d 1992\|IMO8507731)	1989
9346	HYDROPHYSICIST (R/V)
2001
7800	GS-440
9320	40 LET POBEDY (F/V\| built 06.1985\| Taganrog)	1985
6420	AKVANAVT (R/V\| call sign UMSK\| built 1976\| new call sign UIOJ\| IMO7640500)	1976
6342	DALNIYE ZELYENTSY (R/V\|call sign UTPB\|built 1978\|new c.s.UHZH\|IMO7740477)	1978
6352	PROFESSOR KHROMOV (R/V\|c.s.UWEC\|built 03.1983\|decomm-d 1992\|IMO8010350)	1983
9513	YANTAR (R/V\|call sign UEQE\|built 1975\|IMO7524419)	1975
2002
9513	YANTAR (R/V\|call sign UEQE\|built 1975\|IMO7524419)	1975
9318	PTR-70
6342	DALNIYE ZELYENTSY (R/V\|call sign UTPB\|built 1978\|new c.s.UHZH\|IMO7740477)	1978
6334	AKADEMIK MSTISLAV KELDYSH (R/V\| call sign UFJI\| built 12.1980\| IMO7811018)	1980
7800	GS-440
6421	AKADEMIK IOFFE (R/V\|call sign UKLP\|built 1989\|decomm-d 1992\|IMO8507731)	1989
2003
6349	KAPITAN DEMIDOV
9323	ZODIAK (Motor boat)
9317	PROFESSOR PANOV (R/V)
9321	COSSACK ERIK
6342	DALNIYE ZELYENTSY (R/V\|call sign UTPB\|built 1978\|new c.s.UHZH\|IMO7740477)	1978
8850	AKADEMIK SERGEY VAVILOV (R/V\|c.s.UAUO\|old c.s.UKOC\|built 1988\|IMO8507729)	1988
2004
9317	PROFESSOR PANOV (R/V)
6305	AKADEMIK FYODOROV (R/V\| c.s.UQYC\| built 1987\| new c.s.UCKZ\| IMO8519837)	1987
9345	KHLUSTIN (motor ship)
9340	DOCKER TALYANOV
9348	KAPITAN SOKOLOV (Pilot Boat\|call sign UFEW\|MMSI 273439640\|Novorossiysk)
9347	KAPITAN OSTANIN
9357	LOTSMAN GARKUSHA (Pilot Boat\|built 12.1999\|length 23.1\|alt.name Pilot Garkusha)	1999
9332	ANTARES (motor boat)
6942	PRIMORETS
6352	PROFESSOR KHROMOV (R/V\|c.s.UWEC\|built 03.1983\|decomm-d 1992\|IMO8010350)	1983
6342	DALNIYE ZELYENTSY (R/V\|call sign UTPB\|built 1978\|new c.s.UHZH\|IMO7740477)	1978
6421	AKADEMIK IOFFE (R/V\|call sign UKLP\|built 1989\|decomm-d 1992\|IMO8507731)	1989
8850	AKADEMIK SERGEY VAVILOV (R/V\|c.s.UAUO\|old c.s.UKOC\|built 1988\|IMO8507729)	1988
2005
9340	DOCKER TALYANOV
9317	PROFESSOR PANOV (R/V)
9927	ATLANTNIRO (F/V\|call sign UHOB\|built 06.1987\|comm-d 01.1992\|IMO8607050)	1987
6349	KAPITAN DEMIDOV
9347	KAPITAN OSTANIN
6421	AKADEMIK IOFFE (R/V\|call sign UKLP\|built 1989\|decomm-d 1992\|IMO8507731)	1989
9357	LOTSMAN GARKUSHA (Pilot Boat\|built 12.1999\|length 23.1\|alt.name Pilot Garkusha)	1999
9332	ANTARES (motor boat)
9323	ZODIAK (Motor boat)
9677	BELEK
6942	PRIMORETS
6420	AKVANAVT (R/V\| call sign UMSK\| built 1976\| new call sign UIOJ\| IMO7640500)	1976
9372	VALENTIN PODGORNYY (Diving boat\| length 21.2\| Novorossiysk)
6342	DALNIYE ZELYENTSY (R/V\|call sign UTPB\|built 1978\|new c.s.UHZH\|IMO7740477)	1978
9376	VOLNA (Motor ship)
7524	YUZHMORGEOLOGIYA (R/V\| call sign UBSZ\| built 1985\| IMO8724482)	1985
8850	AKADEMIK SERGEY VAVILOV (R/V\|c.s.UAUO\|old c.s.UKOC\|built 1988\|IMO8507729)	1988
2006
6349	KAPITAN DEMIDOV
6305	AKADEMIK FYODOROV (R/V\| c.s.UQYC\| built 1987\| new c.s.UCKZ\| IMO8519837)	1987
7524	YUZHMORGEOLOGIYA (R/V\| call sign UBSZ\| built 1985\| IMO8724482)	1985
9317	PROFESSOR PANOV (R/V)
9319	PTS-231
6352	PROFESSOR KHROMOV (R/V\|c.s.UWEC\|built 03.1983\|decomm-d 1992\|IMO8010350)	1983
6342	DALNIYE ZELYENTSY (R/V\|call sign UTPB\|built 1978\|new c.s.UHZH\|IMO7740477)	1978
6421	AKADEMIK IOFFE (R/V\|call sign UKLP\|built 1989\|decomm-d 1992\|IMO8507731)	1989
2007
7524	YUZHMORGEOLOGIYA (R/V\| call sign UBSZ\| built 1985\| IMO8724482)	1985
6342	DALNIYE ZELYENTSY (R/V\|call sign UTPB\|built 1978\|new c.s.UHZH\|IMO7740477)	1978
6744	ICE CAMP
2008
7524	YUZHMORGEOLOGIYA (R/V\| call sign UBSZ\| built 1985\| IMO8724482)	1985
6744	ICE CAMP
6342	DALNIYE ZELYENTSY (R/V\|call sign UTPB\|built 1978\|new c.s.UHZH\|IMO7740477)	1978
7535	YAKOV SMIRNITSKIY (R/V\|call sign UVWL\|built 1977\|IMO7423299)	1977
2009
7524	YUZHMORGEOLOGIYA (R/V\| call sign UBSZ\| built 1985\| IMO8724482)	1985
6744	ICE CAMP
6421	AKADEMIK IOFFE (R/V\|call sign UKLP\|built 1989\|decomm-d 1992\|IMO8507731)	1989
6342	DALNIYE ZELYENTSY (R/V\|call sign UTPB\|built 1978\|new c.s.UHZH\|IMO7740477)	1978
2010
6342	DALNIYE ZELYENTSY (R/V\|call sign UTPB\|built 1978\|new c.s.UHZH\|IMO7740477)	1978
2011
6342	DALNIYE ZELYENTSY (R/V\|call sign UTPB\|built 1978\|new c.s.UHZH\|IMO7740477)	1978
2012
10769	ZAPOLYARNYY (Cont.ship\|call sign UGWF\|built 11.2008\|IMO9404027\|Murmansk)Q	2008
6342	DALNIYE ZELYENTSY (R/V\|call sign UTPB\|built 1978\|new c.s.UHZH\|IMO7740477)	1978
2013
10768	MONCHEGORSK (Cont.ship\|call sign UBBF2\|built 07.2008\|IMO9404015\|Murmansk)	2008

Brief conclusion

Of course, it is important to understand that the NOAA base does not fully reflect the situation, but there is no reason to expect that a more complete picture differs significantly from that described in this article.

We can mention with grief the absolute record holder and veteran of post-Soviet oceanographic and oceanological research - the ship “Dalnye Zelentsy” , which has been in operation since 1978 (by the way, the history of the village in whose honor the ship is named is also read with grief).

Additionally, I propose to read:

List of Russian research vessels on the wiki;
Research Fleet of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The article "Is there a future for the scientific fleet?" on the website of the Institute of Oceanology RAS

List of sources

List of expeditions on the NOAA website
Shuffled by me list
XLS , with a list of expeditions and countries where I built all the graphs
Digitized Oil Price Chart
List of platforms used in the Russian Federation from 1991 to 2018
List of unique platforms by year and country
Search Marinetraffic ships
Search for Wrecksite Wrecks
Online digitizer of charts from bitmap images

PS

As usual, I will sincerely appreciate constructive criticism and error messages.

Who, how and on what explored the world's oceans - we analyze the NOAA bases