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and the exploitation and introduction of foreign practices into production as well as
on the Russian Academy of Sciences national committee on welding, a member of
the Supreme Soviet for science. In 1991, a new International Research Center for
Northern Territories Development in Siberia was established that links together the
work of scientists of three Siberian Department Institutes: the Institute of
Cryosphere of Earth in Tyumen, the Institute of Physico-Engineering Problems of
the North in Yakutsk, and the Institute of Philology in Akademgorodok-
Novosibirsk. As Director of the Institute of Physico-Engineering Problems of the
North in Yakutsk, Dr. Larionov will play a major role in the development of this
new international research institute.(LDA 89-11378.)]
(1997 update)
Yakutsk Research Center
The skeleton of a rhinoceros found near the village of Churapcha, one of the mast valuable
exhibits of the Geological Museum of the Yakut Research Centre.
Yakut (Sakha) Republic is situated in the north-east of Siberia (its area is 3103 thousand
sq.km, its population 1099 thousand people). Forty per cent of its territory is
beyond the Polar Circle. At Oymyakon, "Pole of Cold" of the Northern
Hemisphere, the minimum winter temperature is - 71,1 °C, and maximum
temperature in summer may reach + 36,7 °C.
Yakutia is rich in diamonds and gold, in tin and antimonium, in oil, coal, and irop ore. It
has many mines for the extraction of non-ferrous metals and other minerals.
Agriculture is very poor due to the permafrost. Climatic conditions are extremely
severe.
The Yakut Research Centre (YRC) of RAS SB includes:
Diamonds of Yakutia.
Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy
Institute of Mining of the North
Yakut Institute of Geosciences
Permafrost Institute
United Institute of the Physical-Technological
Problems of the North involving:
Institute of the Physical-Technological Problems of the North
Institute of Non-Metallic Materials
The Yakut Research Centre (YRC) of YaNAS includes:
Yakut Institute of Biology
Yakut Institute of Language, Literature and History
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