TIG FEB RAS) is a research institute part of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences founded in 1971.
[1][2] The Pacific Institute of Geography was established on October 1, 1971 at the Far Eastern Scientific Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Andrey Kapitsa, a scientist, geographer, and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences became the director of the institute.
The main task of the new institute was to organize, conduct, and coordinate full-scale geographic studies of the Far East regions and natural geosystems in the continent-ocean transition zone.
In 2018, according to the results of the FANO assessment of the performance of scientific organizations, the institute was assigned category I in the profile "Knowledge generation".