Scientists of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, the Lomonosov Moscow State University, the RAS Marine Hydrophysical Institute, the Azov–Black Sea branch of the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, and the Marine Research Centre of the Moscow State University developed a unique Biology of the Black and Azov Seas online course with the support of Rosneft Oil Company and the Arctic Research Centre (a subsidiary of Rosneft’s corporate research and development complex).