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transferred to Novosibirsk. In 1987, its collections numbered some 12 million
volumes, covering all scientific fields, various technical documents and patents, and
a unique collection of manuscripts and early printed books. The library grows at a
rate of some 300 to 400 thousand books a year that includes some 40 thousand
foreign publications. Scientific Technical literature translations are done at the
request of organizations, institutes, and individual readers. Director: B. S. Elepov,
C. PM. S. Academician Secretary is Irina A. Guzner, C. Info. S.
Scientific Centers of the Siberian Department
The Scientific Centers of the Russian Academy of Sciences are in the early phase of
attaining departmental status. In each of them an administrative unit is given the
responsibility for coordinating research, obtaining money, and recruiting the
scientists needed to perform the research missions of the increasing number of
research institutes being developed under the Centers' administrative authority.
From 1944 to 1957 there was a “Western Siberian Branch or Center”, and from
1949 to 1957 an “Eastern Siberian Branch or Center.” Both of these became
departments of the newly-established Siberian Branch of the AN SSSR and evolved
into the Far Eastern Center (now the Far Eastern Department) and the Urals Center
(now the Urals Department). It may be expected in the future that the centers listed
below may someday reach department status.
Buryat Research Center
Republic Buryatia, the capital of which is Ulan-Ude, occupies a mountainous area east of
Lake Baikal, known as Transbaikalia (its area is 351 thousand sq.km, its
population 1049 thousand people). Four fifth of its territory is covered with forest.
Mining industry, production and processing of non-ferrous metals and non-metallic
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