title: Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry
text: # Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry
  
  Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry (Russian: Институт почвоведения и агрохимии СО РАН) is a research institute in Akademgorodok of Novosibirsk, Russia. It was founded in 1968.
  
  ## History
  
  The institute was organized in 1968. It was created to study the soils of Siberia and the Russian Far East.
  
  ## Scientific activity
  
  The creation of new methods of soil and plant diagnostics, development of soil reclamation technologies etc.
  
  ## Laboratories
  
  * Laboratory of Agrochemistry
  * Laboratory of Soil Biogeochemistry
  * Laboratory of Biogeocenology
  * Laboratory of Geography and Genesis of Soils
  * Laboratory of Soil Physical Processes
  * Laboratory of Soil Reclamation
  