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trenches of the Western Pacific. Three types of geological structures bearing
ophiolites were found and accumulations of phosphorites and platinum-cobaltmanganese
crusts in carbonate covers of guyots were discovered in the North-
Western Pacific in 1990-91. (Information provided by letter dated 28
December 1991 from Dr. Vladimir Popov, Learned Secretary, and
Ms. Lydia Kovbas, Associate Director for International Relations of
the institute.)
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4. Volcanology Institute in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii.
Fedotov, Sergei A., D. PM. S. Born in 1931 in Leningrad. Russian geophysicist.
Corresponding member of the Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Mining
Sciences Department of the Academy since 1970; academician in 1993. Also a
member of the Far Eastern Department. He graduated from Moscow State
University in 1953. From 1957 to 1971, he worked at the O. Iurii Shmidt Institute
of Earth Physics of the AN SSSR. Since 1971, he has been Director of the
Volcanology Institute at Petropovlovsk-Kamchatskii (of the Far Eastern Department
of the Russian Academy of Sciences) that was established in 1961 to study
volcanism in the Kurile-Kamchatka zone. In 1975, he was elected vice-President of
the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior.
His principal works deal with the internal structure and seismicity of the earth,
properties of the earth's mantle, the mechanism of deep magmatic and volcanic
activity, and long-term earthquake predictions. (GSE 27, p. 137.)
Established in 1961 from a Volcanology Laboratory of the AN SSSR in Kamchatka’s
geological Geophysical Department of the Siberian Department of the AN SSSR.
The institute studies contemporary volcanism in the Kurile-Kamchtka zone. Since
1971, its Director has been Sergei A. Fedotov, D. PM. S. Deputy Directors:
Belousov, Vladimir Iurii, since '83; Gushchenko, Igor I., since '78; and,
Sugrobov, V. M., since '81;
Postmagmatic Processes Laboratory: Head Noboko, Sofia I., D. GM. S.,
since '70;
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5. Soil Biology Institute in Vladivostok. Also the Biology and Soil Science
Institute. Established in 1962. Studies Agricultural problems in the Far East. Its
scientists have contributed to the development of a national soil map. Director
Tarankov, Vladimir I., D. Bio. S., since 1977. (See: Ruble, Vol. I., p. 294.)
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6. Bioorganic Chemistry Institute in Vladivostok.
Eliakov, Georgii B., D. Chem S. Born in 1929 in Kostroma. Russian chemist and
biochemist. Corresponding member of; t;he; Biochemistry, Biophysics, and
Chemistry of Physiologically Active Compounds Department of the Academy since
1970, and academician since December 1987. He is also a member of the Far
Eastern Department and since 1980, he has been deputy chairman of that
Department. He graduated from the Department of chemistry at Moscow State
University in 1952. From 1955 to 1959, he worked in Moscow. Since 1959, he
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