The Federal State Budget Scientific Institute "Polar Geophysical Institute" (PGI) was founded on October 11, 1960 to study physical processes in the high latitude region. PGI is located in the cities of Murmansk and Apatity (Kola Peninsula). The main PGI observatories are located in Lovozero (Kola Peninsula) and Barentsburg (Spitsbergen Archipelago), where regular observations of auroras, cosmic rays and geomagnetic pulsations are conducted. The subject of scientific research PGI corresponds to the Basic directions of fundamental research of the Program of Fundamental Scientific Researches of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Scientific and applied activity of the PGI includes the development and transfer to users of technical innovations for high-latitude geo- and radio-physical observations, monitoring of geomagnetic variations over a wide frequency range, monitoring of cosmic rays, monitoring of the Arctic atmosphere and other tasks in high-latitude physics, that is due to the location of the Institute.