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unusual facts about Russian Academy


Zawarib

The most prominent intellectual personality from Zawarib is Dr. Suheil Farah, a professor in history who was the first foreigner to be granted the highest award of the Russian Academy.



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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).

Hajibala Abutalybov

In 1969, he was enrolled in post graduate program at Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Imperial Porcelain Factory

In 1925, on the occasion of the 200th jubilee of the Russian Academy of Science, it was given the name of the academy's founder, Mikhail Lomonosov.

Levon Chailakhyan

He was a director of the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics of Russian Academy of Sciences, located in Pushchino, Moscow Oblast.

Matsumae clan

At roughly the same time, in 1789, Finnish professor Erik Laxman, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, came across several Japanese castaways in Irkutsk.

Otto Wilhelm von Struve

By the initiative of Struve, two US astronomers, Simon Newcomb and Asaph Hall were appointed as Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Pulkovo

Pulkovo Observatory, The Central Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Pulkovo, 19 km south of Saint Petersburg

SARS conspiracy theory

The SARS conspiracy theory began to emerge during the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in China in the spring of 2003, when Sergei Kolesnikov, a Russian scientist and a member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, first publicized his claim that the SARS coronavirus is a synthesis of measles and mumps.

Vicki Hirsch

She also studied at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in Moscow, where she trained with World Master Gennadi Bogdanov in Russian Classical Biomechanics.

Victor Alferov

He graduated from the East-Siberian State Academy of Culture and Arts and then from GITIS (Russian Academy of Theatre Art, workshop of Mark Zakharov

Vulimiri Ramalingaswami

His pioneering research on nutrition got him elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society of London.