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Andrey Kurkin is a leading researcher in autonomous mobile robotics, specializing in environmental monitoring and disaster forecasting for coastal zones. His work addresses critical challenges in marine safety and resource management, particularly for Russia’s vast and harsh sea shelves, which hold half of the nation’s gas reserves. Kurkin’s major contributions include defining optimal conditions for coastal monitoring and developing a modular unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) with adaptive agility systems—capable of switching between wheeled, tracked, and rotary-screw movers to navigate extreme climates and sea-wave conditions. His most cited paper (22 citations) establishes a framework for monitoring poorly supervised coastal areas to predict marine natural disasters, while his group robotics research (10 citations) advances multi-robot coordination for shelf exploration. Kurkin’s work has direct implications for forecasting storms and oil spill risks in the Okhotsk Sea, bridging robotics and geophysics. By integrating adaptive locomotion with real-time environmental sensing, he has created systems that operate where human access is dangerous or impossible. His achievements include developing an experimental prototype for continuous coastal monitoring, a vital tool for Russia’s Arctic and shelf development. Kurkin’s research is essential reading for roboticists and environmental engineers tackling autonomous operations in the world’s most challenging littoral zones.