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departments, one laboratory, and a group in the institute in Moscow and in 22
departments located in other social science institutes throughout the former Soviet
Union and one department situated in the Archive of the Russian National Academy
in Moscow. Its departments include: (1.) the Preliminary Processing of
Informational Materials Department; (2.) the Scientific Holdings Department; (3.) the
Scientific-informational Services Department; (4.) the Acquisition of Scientific
Holdings Department with sectors on coordination of foreign literature purchases,
acquisition of foreign literature, acquisition of Soviet literature, international book
exchange, and automating acquisition and input processes; (5.) the Dissemination of
Informational Materials Department; (6.) a Laboratory on Problems of
Bibliographical Description and Compilation of Alphabetic Catalogs; and (7.) a
group on marketing studies. (See: A Scholars’ Guide to Humanities and Social
Sciences in the Soviet Union, Ruble, et. al. Editors.)
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4. Industrial Lasers Scientific Research Center in Troitsk. Established in 1979.
The center has scientific research divisions, a design bureau, and an experimental
production facility. It is an experimental facility for the restructuring of the
organization of scientific and technological enterprises in the Russian Federation
with the end of introducing scientific and technological discoveries more quickly into
the production of goods. Its production base is located in Shatura. This base was
established in 1985.
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5. Numerical Mathematics Institute in Moscow--(Formerly--the Computational
Mathematics Institute in Moscow). headed by the former President of the Academy
of Sciences Gurii I. Marchuk.
(Located at 32a, Leninskii ave., Moscow, 117993. Tel. (938-17-69)
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6. A Computational Mathematics Institute was created in 1980 and it was given full
institute status in 1991 by the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences
(RAS). Its Director, Gurii I. Marchuk, D. PM S., after serving as Chairman of the
GKNT, became president of the Soviet Academy in 1986, a position he held until
1991. The institute conducts research in applied mathematics, long-range
forecasting, the formulation of mathematical models, and in the development of
computational methodology. Professor Marchuk continues to be the Director of the
institute. Initially, this Institute was directly subordinate to the Presidium. It is now
located under the Mathematics Department of the Russian Academy, and bears the
title of Institute of Computing Mathematics. It is located at 32a, Leninskii Avenue.,
Moscow, 117993, and it is directed by Gurii Iv. Marchuk, tel. 938-17-69.
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7. Nuclear Safety Institute in Moscow was established in 1988, the institute has
remained subordinate to the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences itself. Scientists
at the institute study the methodology of programming for the safety of the nuclear
complexes in Russia and the problems of safety of atomic energy, the ecological
problems resulting from the use of atomic energy, and the disposal of nuclear waste.
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