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physics. He was Director of that institute succeeding V. D. Batkhtin. From 1987 to
1990, Dr. Osipov was Director of the Mathematics and Mechanics Institute in
Ekaterinburg. In 1990, he succeeded Marchuk as President of the Russian Academy
of Sciences, a position which he continues to hold.
Vice Presidents
Frolov, Konstantin V. Born in 1932 in Kirov, Kalugo Oblast. Russian authority on
machine vibrations. Corresponding member of the AN SSSR and the AN SSSR
from 1976. Since l984, he has been an academician and since 1985, he has been
academic secretary of the Problems of Machine Building, Mechanics and Control
Processes Department of the academy. Since l985, he has been a Vice President of
the AN SSSR. In March of l986, he became a candidate member of the Central
Committee of the CPSU. He graduated from the Briansk Institute of Transportation
Machine Building in 1956 and joined the staff of the Institute of Machine Science
(now the A. A. Blagonravov State Scientific Research Institute of Machine Science
in Moscow). Since l975, he has served as the Director of this institute that was
established in the 1930s and that does research in the dynamics and kinetics of
machinery friction and wear, mechanical engineering, and strength considerations. It
was jointly subordinate to the Ministry of the Machine Tool and Tool Building
Industry and to the Problems of Machine Building, Mechanics, and Control
Processes Department of the AN SSSR. He founded the branch of bio-mechanics
dealing with the effects of exposure to machine vibrations and formulated the
scientific principles underlying the theory of systems used to protect human
operators from such vibrations. (GSE 28, p. 390.)
Il’ichev, (Ilichev) Viktor I. Born in 1932 in the village of Tikhonovo, Vladimir
Oblast. Vice President of the Academy for the Far Eastern Department since 1987.
Russian hydrologist and hydro-acoustics specialist. Corresponding member of the
Oceanology, Atmospheric Physics, and Geography Department of the Academy
since 1976 and, academician since 1981. He graduated from the University of
Gorkiy in 1955. Between 1955 and 1974 he was on the Acoustics Institute staff. In
1974, he became Director of the Pacific Ocean Oceanology Institute in Vladivostok
established in 1973 to study the complex hydro-physics of water masses, sea swell,
energy exchange, and the interactions of the ocean. It is subordinate to the
Academy's Far Eastern Scientific Department. Since March 1986, he has been
Chairman of the Far Eastern Department of the Academy. His works deal with
acoustic and hydrodynamic cavitation, the resistance of liquids to cavitation, and
marine hydrology. (GSE 30, p. 440.)
Kudriavtsev, Vladimir N., D. Iur. S. Born in 1923 in Moscow. Russian iurist. Vice
President of the Academy for the Social Sciences since 1988. Corresponding
member of the Philosophy and Law Department of the Academy since 1974; and,
academician since 1984. From 1952 to 1960 he taught and researched at the V. I.
Lenin Military Political Academy. From 1960-63 he was Deputy Chief and Chief of
organizational inspection division of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of
the former Soviet Union In 1963 he joined the All-Union Institute for the Study of
the Causes of Crime and the Development of Crime Prevention Measures. From
1969 to 1973 he was Director of that institute. Since l973, he has served as Director
of the State and Law Institute in Moscow that was established in 1938 and is
Russia's most prestigious and important facility for conducting research on
governmental l, Legal and political affairs. Its research directly affects Russian
legislation. His principal works are on criminal law and criminology. Since l975, he
has been Deputy Chairman of Soviet Sociological Association, Moscow. Since
l983, he has served as a member of the Presidium of the Soviet Committee for the
Defense of Peace. Since l985, he has been member of the Presidium of the
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