X-Nico

unusual facts about Academy of Sciences of the USSR



BARS apparatus

The BARS technology was invented around 1989–1991 by the scientists from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Siberian branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

Boris Kolker

In 1985 he was awarded a Ph.D.Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow.

Luna 1

This glowing orange trail of gas, visible over the Indian Ocean with the brightness of a sixth-magnitude star for a few minutes, was photographed by Mstislav Gnevyshev at the Mountain Station of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR near Kislovodsk.

Pisces-class deep submergence vehicle

Pisces VII and Pisces IX were built in 1975 and used by Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR for about 10 years, until being replaced by the MIR submersibles.

Vsevolod Savich

He headed the Section of Cryptogamic Plants of the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

Yagutil Mishiev

Soon, scholars of Dagestan, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences started to inquire on various issues related to the museum.


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Vladimer Papava

He received his Candidate of Science degree in Economics (PhD) from Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, in 1982, and his Doctor of Science degree in Economics from Tbilisi State University in 1989 and Leningrad State University in 1990.