A Guide to the Russian Academy of Sciences - University of Texas ...

In closing this preface, I remind myself that this guide is only a small beginning.
Hopefully, others will pick it up, expand and continue it.
Jack L. Cross
Austin, Texas 1995
Note to the 1997 revised edition: In these trying times in Russia, changes are afoot
in the scientific research institutes, in the departments of the academy, and in the
personnel who make up the Russian intelligentsia. Russian scientists and Russian
scientific research institutes are appearing in greater numbers on the internet.
Internally, computer servers and networks are being developed at a dizzying pace,
and the outreach of those networks to the rest of the world is making it possible to
keep up with those changes that are posted on the internet. This revised edition is
the second of an bi-annual update and it takes advantage of the latest information
posted by individuals, where useful, and by institutes and departments when
available. A much greater number of e-mail addresses for both institutes and
individual scientist is now included in this edition. As greater accuracy is achieved
in the Guide, the location of research institutes and of scientists in the context of
Russian Science may prove to be most useful to all of us. I have tried to make the
spelling of Russian names and place names machine searchable by offering
alternatives of transliterations. These spellings are primarily for English speaking
readers. I am certain that I have not succeeded in accomplishing this, and any
suggestions for improvement are welcomed. Materials downloaded from the
internet are considered by me, as a historian, to be "primary" sources and, like all
primary sources must be submitted to internal and external critical analysis.
Research of this kind on the net is in its infancy and citation standards remain to be
worked out.
Note: I add here a role and scope statement about the Academy itself which summarizes
and emphasizes the continuing importance of this great institution.
The Russian Academy of Science (RAS)
A Role and Scope Statement:
The Russian Academy of Sciences is the major center of the fundamental scientific research
and is an all-Russia self-governed body.
The Academy of Sciences is a community of prominent scientists-its members and
corresponding members, other scholars and specialists working in the Academy's
organizations, thus being the leading center of fundamental research in fields of the
natural and social sciences in the Russian Federation. The Academy's structure
incorporates a wide network of the research institutes and laboratories involved in
the studies in the basic fields of modern science. It employs the best scientific
forces of the country including world renowned scientists and talented youth.
In its activity the Russian Academy of Sciences follows the Federal Law and the Statues
adopted by the RAS general assembly without interference from any state or other
structures. The Academy exercises control over the activity of the scientific research
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