Decision on creation of the institute with dual subordination to the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Ministry of Emergencies was adopted on 29 December 1995. On 4 January 1996 a joint order of the Academy and the Ministry was signed by Borys Paton and Volodymyr Kholosha (acting minister) on creation of the State science center of Surrounding Environment Radiation- and Geochemistry based on two departments of the NASU Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Ore-creation (Department of surrounding environment radiation- and geochemistry and Department of metallogeny).

On 12 July 2000 the center was renamed as the NASU Institute of [Surrounding] Environment Geochemistry.

In 2012 the Ministry of Emergencies was liquidated (degraded to a state service under Ministry of Internal Affairs).

• 1996 - 2013 Emlen Sobotovych
• 2013 - 2018 Heorhiy Lysychenko
• 2018 - Yurii L. Zabulonov

• Kyiv science and production association "Ekolohichni tekhnolohiyi i normatyvy" (Ecological technologies and norms)
• State science and production small enterprise "Vidrodzhenia" (Revival)
• State enterprise "Ekoinform"
• Interagency scientific council on issues of radioactive waste management (Presidium of the NASU)
• Committee on meteorites (Department of Earth Sciences of the Presidium of the NASU)
• Branch of the National Aviation University Ecology Department
• The National Aviation University Ecology Department jointly with the National Aviation University Institute of Land Management and Information Technology
• NASU Center for collective use of unique scientific instruments "Mineraloho-heokhimichni doslidzhenia" (Mineral and geochemical research)
• others

• NASU Institute of Environment Geochemistry at National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine