In Russia geothermal research is carried out by 53 scientific centers and high education institutions located in different cities and belonging to different offices: Academy of Sciences, Ministries of Education, Natural Resources, Fuel and Energy. They cooperate in some regional centres of science, such as Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volga region (Yaroslavl, Kazan, Samara), Ural (Ufa, Ekaterinburg, Perm, Orenburg), Siberian (Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Tomsk, Irkutsk, Yakutsk), and the Far East (Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, South-Sakhalinsk, Petropavlovsk-on-Kamchatka). In such centers consisting usually of several institutes geothermal studies dedicated to theoretical, applied, regional research are being carried out.

In Russia, geothermal resources are used predominantly for space heating: cities and settlements in Northern Caucasus and Kamchatka with a population of about 500.000.

Moreover, in some regions of the country the deep heat is used for greenhouses of 465.000m² accumulative area. Most active use of the hydrothermal resources are in Krasnodar territory, Dagestan and in Kamchatka. Approximately one half of the extracted resources is applied for heating of industrial buildings; a third to heat greenhouses, and about 13% for industrial processes. Besides this, the thermal waters are used in approximately 150 health resorts and 40 factories that bottle mineral water. Quantity of electrical energy that is developed in geothermal power stations of Russia per 2000 has increased almost twofold. Nevertheless, it remains extremely minor, making up only 0.01 percent of the total development of the electric power in the country.