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4 unusual facts about Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences


Ajancingenia

The name "Ingenia" derives from the Ingen Khoboor Depression of Bayankhongor Province, Mongolia, from whence it was collected, while the specific name yanshini was chosen in honour of academician Aleksandr Leonidovich Yanshin (1911–1999), who was adviser and mentor to Rinchen Barsbold during his time at the Paleontological Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Deinodryinus? aptianus

Deinodryinus? aptianus was first studied by the paleoentomologists Adalgisa Guglielmino and Massimo Olmi both of the University of Tuscia in collaboration with Alexandr Rasnitsyn of the Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Neoephemera antiqua

N. antiqua was first studied by Nina D. Sinitchenkova of the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with her 1999 type description being published in the Russian text Palaeontological Journal.

Teviornis

The fossils are in the collection of the Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.


109573 Mishasmirnov

It is named after Mikhail Alexandrovich Smirnov, a 19th- and 20th-century Russian astronomer at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

16419 Kovalev

It is named after Sergej Nikitich Kovalev, a Russian shipbuilder and engineer at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

2013 North Korean nuclear test

Later, the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences did not register any seismic events and underground tremors at 16:00 local time on 12 February 2013, in the Russian Far East.

Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev

In 1924 he was elected Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Aleksandr Nazarenko

He heads the project "Russia and Central Europe in the Middle Ages" in the World History Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Aleksey Tillo

For creating this map Tillo was elected a corresponding member of the Russian (1892) and Parisian Academies of Sciences.

Alexander E. Shilov

Since 1952 he is in Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences in Chernogolovka (Moscow district), where he is now the Head of Laboratory.

Alexey Kylasov

He is also a member of the scientific council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on studying and protection of a natural and cultural heritage from 2012.

Anatoly Kovler

Anatoly Kovler (born 26 August 1948) is a Tajikistani-born Russian lawyer, former Professor at the Academic Law University of the Russian Academy of Sciences and currently the Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Russia.

Aristarkh Belopolsky

The crater Belopol'skiy on the Moon, the asteroid 1004 Belopolskya and an award of the Russian Academy of Sciences are named after him.

Atomic layer deposition

These ALD experiments were conducted under the scientific supervision of a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Prof. V.B. Aleskovskii.

Autowave

During 1970-80, major efforts to study autowaves were concentrated in the Institute of Biological Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, located in the suburban town Pushchino, near Moscow.

Boris Gryzlov

After the Russian Academy of Sciences pseudoscience commission claimed that Petrik was a fraud, Gryzlov denounced the panel as obscurantism.

Boris Kolker

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

Boundaries between continents

The 1745 atlas published by the Russian Academy of Sciences has the boundary follow the Don beyond Kalach as far as Serafimovich before cutting north towards Arkhangelsk, while other 18th- to 19th-century mapmakers such as John Cary followed Strahlenberg's prescription.

Constantin Scriabine

Constantin Scriabine (1878–1972) was a Soviet scientist in the field of Helminthology, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939), academician of USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor (1958), winner of Stalin Prize and Lenin Prize.

Deinodryinus areolatus

Deinodryinus areolatus is known only from a single fossil, the holotype, specimen number PIN No. 964/60, which is housed in the A.A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow.

Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia

The first head of the department was its founder, N. Baranskiy, professor of the faculty and member-correspondent in Russian Academy of Sciences.

Dmitri Bondarenko

He also holds Doctor of Sciences degree (2000) from the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Dmitry Burkov

While a student, he worked in the Microsystems Laboratory of the Russian Academy of Sciences on modeling and development of various systems and networks.

Engelhardt family

The Engelhardt name has been attached to a scientific institute in Moscow, the observatory of Kazan University, the gold medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the main railway station in Smolensk, a crater on the moon, an asteroid, and a star in the constellation Cygnus.

Friedrich von Schubert

He became an infantry general in the Russian army, head of the military topographic service, and honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Gecatogomphius

Gecatogomphius is known from the holotype PIN 1156/1, a three-dimensionally preserved nearly complete lower jaw found on the bank of the Vyatka River near the town of Gorki in the Kirov Oblast, and from PIN 4310/1 a single maxillary tooth plate from Berezovye Polyanki in Tatarstan.

Gennady Simeonovich Osipov

He is the vice-president of the Institute for Systems Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), and at Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

Georg Huth

In 1897 he undertook a journey to Siberia for the purpose of studying Tungusic, receiving a subvention from the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg.

Georgy Sergeevich Zolotarenko

From 1951, he worked in the Biological Institute of West Siberian Branch of the Academy of Science of the U.S.S.R. (now the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences) where he was the Chief of the Zoological Museum (1983-1987), then the Chief Scientific worker in the same museum (1987-2002).

Heinrich von Kittlitz

He provided the museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg with 754 specimens of 314 bird species, including species that subsequently became extinct.

Igor Sutyagin

In 1998 he became the head of the subdivision for Military-Technical and Military-Economic Policy at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, where he worked before he was arrested for treason, although he supposedly did not have access to classified documentation as a civilian researcher.

Institute of International Programs of PetrSU

By that time such centres had existed in Saint-Petersburg, Saratov, Kazan, Kaliningrad, at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), Moscow State International Institute of International Relations and Moscow State University.

Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

The perturbation theory of toroidal invariant manifolds of dynamical systems was developed here by academician M. M. Bogolyubov, Yu. O. Mitropolsky, academician of the NAS of Ukraine and the Russian Academy of Sciences, and A. M. Samoilenko, academician of the NAS of Ukraine.

Jack H. Freed

He also worked at Zavoisky Institute where he was awarded International Zavoisky Award in the name of Russian Academy of Sciences.

Johann Amman

Johann Amman, Johannes Amman or Иоганн Амман (22 December 1707 Schaffhausen - 14 December 1741 St Petersburg), was a Swiss-Russian botanist, a member of the Royal Society and professor of botany at the Russian Academy of Sciences at St Petersburg.

John Meurig Thomas

He is the recipient of twenty honorary degrees from Australian, British, Canadian, Chinese, Dutch, Egyptian, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and U.S. universities, and has been elected to honorary membership in over fifteen foreign academies, including the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Accademia dei Lincei (Rome), and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Kolomeytseva Islands

In 1900, the islands of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago were explored by Russian geologist Baron Eduard Von Toll during the Polar Expedition on behalf of the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences aboard ship Zarya.

Konstantin Bogdanov

During this time period he was also a leading researcher for the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Konstantin Bogdanov continued his post-doctoral work with the Russian Academy of Sciences, producing a dissertation on: “Russian Folklore; Semiotics of Reality”.

Lev Ponomaryov

He worked in the Theoretical and Experimental Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and taught in the MFTI in the general physics department.

Lola Lonli

In 1994 and 1995, together with Union of African Persons and Institute of African studies (part of Russian Academy of Sciences), she conducted two exhibitions – performances which included musical fests, lectures, selling of African handicrafts, international meetings and business seminars.

Mendeleev readings

Mendeleev reading had read the presidents and vice presidents of the USSR Academy of Sciences (after 1991 — Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)), Active and corresponding members of the Academy.

Mikhail Rabinovich

In 1974, Mikhail receives an D.Sc from the Institute for Physical Problems of the Soviet Academy of Science chaired by Pyotr Kapitsa.

Moscow Business School

The Moscow Business School collaborates with famous Russian and foreign business-trainers, professors, consultant-practitioners, officials of the Russian Federation government, and research workers of Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Oleg Vyugin

From 1989 to 1993, he was Chief Researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Economic Forecasting.

Sergey Psakhie

Sergey Psakhie — is a Russian physicist, Chairman of the Presidium of the Tomsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Sukhumi botanical garden

Sukhumi botanical garden continued to develop during the Soviet rule and it was finally transformed into the research institute of botany of the Academy of Sciences.

Vera Yurasova

Later, she had particularly close scientific links with the theorist Oleg Firsov, with whom she also worked in the Russian Academy of Sciences Council for Plasma Physics.

Victor Veselago

:After graduating Moscow University in 1952, he went to work with the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

Vsevolod Savich

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

Yaroslav Starobogatov

He was a researcher of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.


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