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Academicians--age and schools: The birth dates of nine of the 11 academicians of the
Far Eastern Department are known. Two academicians were in their 80s, one in his
70s, and the average age of the other six whose birth dates is known was 64 years
in 1991. Institutions graduating seven of the 11 academicians are known and
include: the University of Gorkiy, the Vladivostok Pedagogical Institute, Moscow
State University, Leningrad State University, the Leningrad Institute of Mines, the
Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, and the F. E. Dzerzhinskii Artillery Academy.
Each of these institutions graduated one academician. Of the 11 academicians,
seven were Directors of scientific research institutes and three were Deputy
Directors of institutes. Again, the administrative role of Russian scientists in
heading laboratories or research institutes stands out. One was Vice President of the
AN SSSR, and two others were on the Presidium of the Russian Academy of
Sciences. Four held their principal membership in one of the 18 subject-matter
departments of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Corresponding Members--age and schools: The birth dates of 15 of the 23
corresponding members of the Far Eastern Department are known. Three of them
were in their 80s, and the average age of the remaining 12 whose birth dates are
known was 61 years in 1991. Again, as in the case of the Siberian Department, a
lower average age of members of this geographic department is observed. Fourteen
of the 23 corresponding members of the Far Eastern Department had their principal
memberships in six of the subject-matter departments of the Russian Academy of
Sciences--with the predominant number (seven) holding their membership in the
Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences Department. Other joint
memberships were with the Mechanics and Control Processes Department, the
Economics Department, the History Department, the Oceanology, Atmospheric
Physics, and Geography Department, and the General Biology Department is rather
accurate reflection of the research emphasis of the Far Eastern Department and of
its scientific research institutes. In fact, ten of the corresponding members were or
had been Directors of research institutes located in the Far Eastern regions, one was
a Deputy Director, and one was Chairman of one of the national scientific councils,
which is an important position in the directing of scientific research in Russia. The
educational background of the corresponding members is diverse, although the
institutions graduating the corresponding members of the department is known in
the cases of only eight of the 23 corresponding members. Three of those graduated
from Moscow State University; one from Leningrad State University; one from the
Middle Asian Geological Exploration Institute in Tashkent; one from the A. N.
Krylov Naval Academy of Naval Architecture and Armaments, one from the Far
Eastern Agricultural Institute, and one from the Leningrad Veterinary Institute.
Chairman:
Il'ichev, Viktor I. Born in 1932 in the village of Tikhonovo, Vladimir Oblast. Russian
hydrologist and hydroacoustics specialist. Corresponding member of the
Oceanology, Atmospheric Physics, and Geography Department of the AN SSSR
from 1976, and, academician since 1981. He graduated from the University of
Gorkiy in 1955. Between 1955 and 1974 he was on the Acoustics Institute staff. In
1974, he became Director of the Pacific Ocean Oceanology Institute in Vladivostok
that was established in 1973 to study the complex hydrophysics of water masses,
sea swell, energy exchange, and the interactions of the ocean. It is subordinate to
the academy's Far Eastern Scientific Center (now an academy Department.) Since
March 1986, he has served as Chairman of the Far Eastern Department of the
academy. He has been a Vice President of the academy and on the Presidium since
October 1987. His works deal with acoustic and hydrodynamic cavitation, the
resistance of liquids to cavitation, and marine hydrology. (GSE 30, p. 440.)
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