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* Study of the diversity of the plant life of Siberia: composition, structure, plant
resources, and dynamics of vegetation cover; development of the scientific bases
for rational use of biological resources.
Introduction and acclimatization of the representatives of natural and cultural floras of
Siberia and different regions; enlargement of the assortment of economically
valuable plants of various groups with the use of achievements in genetics,
biotechnology, physiology, and biochemistry of plants.
Preservation of the gene pool of valuable food, forage, medicinal, ornamental, and woody
plants, rare and endangered species by means of foundation of the collection stock
and experimental plots of living plants, formation of the herbarium and seed bank,
development of data-base management systems.
Biological monitoring of the status and conservation of ecosystems, the most valuable
populations and species; development of proposals for establishment of protected
areas.
Propaganda of botanical knowledge and ecological education of population through
excursions, lectures, and exhibitions.
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33. Economics and Organization of Industrial Production Institute in
Akademgorodok was established in 1958 as the first Academy-level economics
institute east of the Urals.
Granberg, Aleksandr G., D. Econ. S. Born in 1936. Specialist in planning for the
national economy and the development of modeling of economic research.
Academician of the Economics Department of the Academy since 1992. He
graduated from the Moscow State University in 1960 and began working at the
Computer Center of GOSPLAN, and at the Moscow Institute of the National
Economy. From 1963 to 1969, he was at the Novosibirsk State University, and
from 1965 he has held the chair on applied mathematical methods for economic
planning. In 1969, he joined the Economy and Organization of Industrial
Production Institute of the Siberian Department, heading the sector on economicmathematical
modeling and methods of optimizing territorial planning, becoming its
Deputy Director in 1975 and its Director in 1985. He has been on the Siberian
Presidium since 1986. He has been head of the Scientific Council of the Academy
on the Economic Sciences since 1985. In 1988, he became Chief editor of the
journal Economics and the Organization of Industrial Production. He received the
Lenin Komsomol Prize in 1968. In the early 1990s the Siberian Department
established the Siberian International Center for Regional Studies in Novosibirsk
that had as its Scientific Research Director Professor Granberg. The Center’s base
institution is the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of the Siberian
Department in Akademgorodok-Novosibirsk of which Dr. Granberg is also the
Science Director. In the process of being organized at present, the center will
involve the Siberian Department, the International Regional Science Association and
Geographic Union will be its founders and its activities will involve research
groups from universities and research centers from the United States, Germany,
Canada, Sweden, Israel, Hungary in research into regional economics.
In 1967, the laboratory on the application of statistical and mathematical methods in the
economy of the Siberian Department was merged with this institute. Its first
Director was G. A. Prudenskii (1958-66). A. G. Aganbegian was its Director from
1967 until 1984, and from 1985 to 1991 it was headed up by A. G. Granberg, a
corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The current Director
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