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econfirmed in 1992. He has authored 64 scientific works of which four
monographs published from 1973 to 1980 are considered to be scientifically
significant. He is the Director of the Yakutsk Biology Institute. He has studied
pollution ecology and the ecology of plants and has established an original school
for research and study in these fields. For 18 years he has held the chair of zoology
at the Yakutsk State University where he has directed the work of 12 aspirants for
the candidate degree. He was a member of the ecological section of the Scientific
Council of the AN SSSR on problems of the fundamental control of the
environment and the reconstruction of animal world; a member of the Research
Committee on the biological sciences of the Siberian Department ; head of the
Yakutsk Department for All-Union territorial society, and on the editorial boards of
“Ecology”, “Cryobiology”, and “Izvestia” of the Siberian Department of the AN.
SSSR. He was also on the Presidium of the Yakutsk Scientific Center of the
Siberian Department of the RAS.
Organized in 1991 with a total staff of 264 of whom 125 were research scientists and of
whom six held the doctorate and 60 the candidate degree. The Scientific Secretary
was Pavel l A. Remigailo.
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78. The Language, Literature and History Institute of the Iakutskaia (aya)-
Sakha Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch in Yakutsk was founded
in 1935--the first institute of the Yakutsk Branch.
In 1988, the staff of the institute totaled 153 of whom 97 were researchers and of whom 11
held the doctorate and 62 the candidate degree. It was reauthorized by the RAS in
1991 with a compliment of 131 persons of whom 98 were research scientists and of
whom eight held the doctorate and 51 the candidate degree--a decline in Personnel.
It underwent two name and status changes prior to its present name and ranking that
it was given in 1988. Its major scientific interests are in the study of language,
literature, folklore, history and art of Yakut peoples, a study of the history and
modern processes of the State, sociological studies, and the development of
language problems for the Yakut, Even, Evenk, and Yukagir languages. The
institute carries on extensive archaeological research that includes the Diring-
Yuryakh Paleolithic settlement on the Lena river bank. Institute scientist have developed
the Yakut alphabet, and are developing grammar and dictionaries of the
language. The Directors of the institute have been: P. A. Oiunskii (1935-37), S. M.
Kochkin (1937-38), V. N. Chmezov (1938-40), R. I. Mestnikov (1940-41), T. A.
Shub (1943-47), A. I. Novgorodov (1947-49), Z. V. Gogolev (1949-63), E. I.
Korkina (1963-84), and since 1984, V. N. Ivanov, D. Hist. S., has been the
Director. Structure of the institute: The institute is organized into five departments:
history;
linguistics;
literature, art and folklore;
humanitarian problems of the North, and
relations between different nationalities and ethnosocial processes.
The institute has a separate sector on archeology. Research supervisors of the institute
include: P. A. Sleptsov, A. N. Myreeva, N. E. Petrov, M. I. Ivanov, T. E.
Andreva, V. A. Robbek, G. S. Syromiatnikov, I. G. Potapov, N. N. Toborukov,
Kh. K. Lebedeva, F. M. Zykov, S. V. Atlasov, and D. A. Shirina. Dr. Vasilii N.
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