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.