The Institute is a multidisciplinary scientific establishment and includes 13 modern research laboratories, where scientists research the most difficult and complex issues of geology, geochemistry, engineering geology, and geo-ecology of the Russian Far East.

The Institute employs 232 people including one hundred and six scientists who carry out investigations on the most pressing issues, as geodynamics, geology of mineral resources, geochemistry, mineralogy, petrology and volcanology, and geoecology. The staff includes one Academician, one Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, twenty-three Professors, and sixty-two Doctors.