SCIENTIFIC CENTER OF MINING GEOLOGY, GEOECOLOGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NAS OF UKRAINE is a scientific state institution under the Presidium of the NAS of Ukraine. It has a history dating back to 1929, when a research group of the Donvuhilya Trust was established.
After the opening of the Central Research Survey Bureau (CNDMB) in Leningrad in 1932, this group became part of its structure as the Kharkiv group of the CNDMBU, and since 1944 as the Donetsk branch of the CNDMBU. In 1945, the CNDMB was transformed into the All-Union Research Surveying Institute (VNDMI), and the Donetsk branch of the CNDMBU was transformed into the Ukrainian branch of the VNDMI. With the independence of Ukraine, the Ukrainian branch of VNDMI by order of the State Coal Industry of Ukraine in December 1992 was transformed into the Ukrainian State Research and Design Institute of Mining Geology, Geomechanics and Surveying. Since 1996, the institute has had dual subordination to the Ministry of Coal Industry of Ukraine and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 1998, UkrNDMI became part of the structure of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
The institute was located in Donetsk. After the Russian armed aggression in eastern Ukraine, he was transferred to Pavlograd, Dnipropetrovsk region. On December 26, 2018, he was transferred from the Department of Earth Sciences to the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
About 180 people worked in UkrNDMI. (1999), the structure included 15 scientific and technical departments. The activities of the institute extended to the coal, mining, oil, gas, construction industries. On February 13, 2019, by the order of the Presidium of the NAS of Ukraine, UkrNDMI was renamed into the State Institution "Scientific Center for Mining Geology, Geoecology and Infrastructure Development of the NAS of Ukraine" (SI “SCMGGID NAS of Ukraine), hereinafter - the Center.
Currently, the Center has 33 employees, including one doctor and four candidates of sciences. The structure of the Center is developed by the directorate, considered by the Scientific and Technical Council and approved by the Presidium of the NAS of Ukraine. The main structural unit of the Center is a scientific unit, the main task of which is to conduct scientific and scientific-technical activities. The structural subdivisions of the Center are scientific subdivisions (departments, laboratories), as well as managerial, scientific-auxiliary, auxiliary and other subdivisions and services. Temporary scientific (creative) teams can be formed to solve certain tasks.