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problems of production infrastructure laboratory, and economic problems of
Chukotka laboratory. There is a separate laboratory on: archeology, history and
ethnography.
Scientists like N. N. Dikov, have conducted extensive expeditions throughout the region as
well as on the Kamchatka peninsula. It publishes a Trudy series on the history and
culture of the peoples of the northeastern USSR Its scholars have produced a fivevolume
history of Siberia, a two-volume history of the Russian Far East and have
compiled a history of the Chukotka peninsula from prehistory to present times. The
institute has established relations with the University of Alaska, the Sorbonne, the
Italian Archeological Society, the Hokkaido University in Japan, and with
individual scholars in Canada and the United States. Deputy Director Zhelnin,
Stepan G., since '78; Unidentified Department: heads: Dikov, Nikolai N., since
'67; and Sidorov, Anatoli A., D. GM. S., since '78; Unknown affiliation: Senior
Researchers: Babkin, Petr V., D. GM. S., since '70; Goncharov, V. I., since '70;
Naiborodin, V. I., since '70; and, Zilberminets, A.: V., since '70; (See: Ruble,
Vol. III, p. 84.)
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3. The Far East Geological Institute in Vladivostok.
Nekrasov, Igor Ia. Since 1988, he has been the Director of the Far Eastern Geology
Institute in Vladivostok subordinate to the Far Eastern Department of the Academy.
It was founded in 1959 to study the distribution of useful minerals in the region. He
was a corresponding member of the Academy in 1993.
Established in 1959, the institute studies the laws governing the distribution of mineral
deposits in the transition zone from Asia to the Pacific. The institute was made up
of 18 laboratories--or research teams--in 1992, each under the direction of a senior
and prominent scientist. The present institute Director Dr. Igor Ia. Nekrasov D.
Geol. S., was appointed in 1988. He is a corresponding member of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the Donetsk Industrial Institute in 1951,
having concentrated on mineralogy and the genesis of ore deposits. At present his
primary interests are in the geochemistry of gold and platinum deposits. Deputy
Directors: Dr. Aleksandr I. Khanchuk D. Geol. S., Head of the Regional Geology
Laboratory and Dr. Sergei A. Shcheka, D. Geol. S., who graduated from the Far
East Polytechnical Institute in Vladivostok in 1960 at which time he began work at
the institute--he received his doctorate from the Moscow State University in 1988.
He studies petrology and the mineralogy of mafic and ultramafic rocks; Councilor:
Ekaterinburg A. Radkevich, D. GM. S., was born in 1908 in Kiev. He has been a
corresponding member of the Russian academy since 1970 and is also a member of
the Far Eastern Department. He graduated from the Middle Asian Geological
Exploration Institute in Tashkent in 1931 and did geological work in Middle Asia
until 1932. Between 1937 and 1959, he worked at the Institute of Geological
Sciences of the Russian academy--now the Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits,
Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry. In 1959, he was appointed Director
of the Far East Geological Institute of the Siberian Department in Vladivostok. He
served as Director until 1977. His principal works are in ore deposits and
metallogeny; Learned Secretary of the Institute: Dr. Vladimir K. Popov, D. Geol.
S., and the Associate Director for International Relations: Ms. Lydia I. Kovbas.
The staff of the institute totaled 135 scientists in 1992. The 18 laboratories include:
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