A competition to fill vacancies of researchers was held in URIFFM on August 10, 2021, according to the Procedure for holding a competition to fill vacancies of researchers. After processing the submitted documents and interviewing the candidates the winner was announced based on the results of the secret ballot of the competition commission. The competition was won by Oleh ZHUKOVSKY , for the position of senior researcher in the Polissya Branch of URIFFM.