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79 unusual facts about Russian Academy of Sciences


109573 Mishasmirnov

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

14819 Nikolaylaverov

It is named after Nikolay Pavlovich Laverov, the vice-president of 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.

Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev

In 1924 he was elected Corresponding Member of the 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.

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 A. Gurshtein

As a historian of science, he has served as editor-in-chief of the Annual on History of Science, published by the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the academic monthly, Nature.

Alexandr Innokentevich Tolmatchew

He was appointed head of the USSR's Academy of Sciences Office for the Studies of the Northern Areas in Arkhangelsk in 1939 after serving for a few years as head of its botanical section.

Alexei I. Miller

Alexei I. Miller is Russian professor of history at Central European University and formerly research fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences, senior fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen.

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.

Andrew Donskov

Andrew Donskov's professional career spans more than 30 years, and his research has been recognized by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Petrovskaja Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada.

Armen Abaghian

Armen Artavazdi Abaghian (January 1, 1933, Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh – November 18, 2005, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian-Armenian specialist on nuclear power, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor (1985), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Grechko

He resigned from the space programme in 1992 to lecture on atmospheric physics at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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).

Gottfried Lengnich

In 1737 he became a honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

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.

Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov

In September 1925, Gorbunov helped allocate US$10,000 to the Academy of Sciences for Ivanov's human-ape hybridization experiments in Africa.

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.

Jenny Levy Miller

Jenny, the daughter of an employee of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, was employed by the English language Moscow News, while Bob Miller was on assignment for the Chattanooga News.

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.

Jun-ichi Nishizawa

He is a Fellow of several other institutions, including the Physical Society, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Polish 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”.

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

He has also received honorary degrees from the University of Ghent, Belgium, Russian Academy of Sciences, University of Athens, Greece, Polytechnic Institute in Toulouse, France, and Pusan National University in South Korea.

Kyrylo Rozumovskyi

Kyrylo Rozum was appointed President of the Russian Academy of Sciences when he just turned 18 years old due to the influence of his brother, Oleksiy Grygorovych Rozumovsky, the morganatic husband of Empress Elisabeth.

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.

Loren Graham

In addition to writing on the history of scientific theories, Graham has written much on the organization of science in Russia and the Soviet Union, including a book on the early history of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (The Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party) and a more recent one on the situation of science in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union (Science in the New Russia, written together with Irina Dezhina).

Mahmud Bayazidi

With the assistance of Bayazidi, a number of Kurdish documents were sent to the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg, including some of Bayazidi's own writings.

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.

Mikhail Semyonovich Shoyfet

In the late 1990s taught at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

For instance, deputy director of Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences professor V. N. Druzhinin (“В. Н. Дружинин”), PhD Psyc.

Mikhail Suprun

In 1996 he earned the title of Doctor Habilitated from the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences.

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.

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.

Nusantara Society

Kulikova Maria (PhD Student, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences).

Senior Research Fellow Dr. Alieva, Natalia Fedorovna (Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences),

Research Fellow Dr. Zakharov, Anton Olegovich (Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences),

Oleg Vyugin

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

Patomskiy crater

There the department head of Institute of Geochemistry St. Petersburg Russian Academy of Sciences (IG SB RAS), Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences Viktor Antipin said that: "Since the expedition in 2006 at the Institute of Geochemistry (IGC), SB RAS came to the conclusion that the origin of Patomskiy crater is probably from geological processes.

Prussian Academy of Arts

After the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome and the Académies Royales in Paris, the Prussian Academy of Art was the oldest institution of its kind in Europe, with a similar foundational mission to other royal academies of that time, such as the Real Academia Española in Madrid, the Royal Society in London, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm or the Russian Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg.

Sergey Bushuyev

Sergey Bushuyev has been an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences since 1996 and active member of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine (UAS) and Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg since 1998.

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.

Simon Franklin

In 2007 he was awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal by the Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in research in Russian history and culture.

Străjescu

Nicolae D. Străjescu (Mykola Strazhesko) - medical doctor, member of the Academies of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and the USSR and of the USSR Academy of Medical 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.

Teviornis

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

Tillo Islands

Sponsored by the Russian Academy of Sciences, this expedition explored the northern shores of the Russian Empire.

Toshiji Fukuda

He has been working with the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1991 and is an honorary member of the Academy's Far East branch of the Institute of Marine Biology.

Valery Pokrovsky

Valery Pokrovsky received for his outstanding work several awards, including the Landau Prize of the Soviet Academy of Science in 1984, the Humboldt Prize in 2000, and the Lars Onsager Prize of the American Physical Society in 2005.

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 A. Brumberg

He once worked as a chief-scientist at the Institute of Applied Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg.

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.

Vietnam-Russia Tropical Centre

This centre was established in 1988 by an agreement between the Ministry of National Defense (Vietnam) and Russian Academy of Sciences.

Viktor Zhivov

Zhivov was a professor at the Russian Language Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and at the Department of Slavic and Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley.

Vsevolod Savich

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

Vyacheslav Baburin

Author has articles in Russian scientific journals "Bulletin of Moscow University", "Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences. Geographical Series", "Proceedings of the Russian Geographical Society", "Journal of Economics and Geography, Southern Federal University", "Regional Studies", etc.

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.

Yaroslav Starobogatov

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

Yuri Felshtinsky

In 1993, he also defended his Doctor of Science thesis at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.

Yuri Raizer

He is Senior Research Fellow with Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia where he has been serving as a head of the Division of Physics of gas dynamic processes since 1965.

Yury Kovalchuk

Despite pressure from Putin, the Russian Academy of Sciences rejected Mikhail Kovalchuk's application for full membership of the Academy in May 2008.


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Giancarlo Pallavicini

Giancarlo Pallavicini (Desio, February 12, 1931) is an economist, academic, manager, Italian writer and journalist, former adviser to the Soviet Government at the time of Gorbachev's Perestroika and member of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation.

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.

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.