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M. Kirov Urals Polytechnic Institute, two; Leningrad State University, one, and the
University of Kazan', one. All academicians, however have advanced degrees.
Corresponding Members--ages and schools: Only ten birth dates of the 26
corresponding members is known. There are a disproportionate number of
members in their 80s who are members of this department--a total of six in all. Of
the four other with known birth dates the average age in 1991 was 60 years. Seven
of the 26 corresponding members held joint memberships with six different subjectmatter
departments of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Seventeen of them were
or had been Directors or Deputy Directors of research institutes subordinate to the
Urals Department. Five institutions are known to have graduated at least five of the
corresponding members. These include: the S. M. Kirov Urals Polytechnic
Institute, two; the University of Kazan', one; the Sverdlovsk Institute of Geological
Prospecting, one, and the Leningrad State University, one.
Chairman:
Mesiats, Gennadii A., D. PM. S. Born in 1936. Physicist. He has been an
academician of the General Physics and Astronomy Department of the AN SSSR
and the RAS since 1984. He is also a member of the Urals Department. Since
1986, he has served as a member of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of
the USSR Since 1977, he has been a co-Director of the High Current Electronics
Institute in Tomsk, an affiliate of the academy's Siberian Department that researches
thermonuclear and accelerator physics and laser technology and that was created in
1977 from the High Current Electronics Laboratory of the Atmospheric Optics
Institute. Since 1986 he has been Chairman of the Urals Center (now Department),
and since November of 1986, he has served as the Director of the Electrophysics
Institute in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) that was established in 1986. In October
1987 he was named a Vice President of the AN SSSR for the Urals Department
and continues in that position with the revitalized Russian Academy of Sciences.
First Deputy Chairman:
Tolstikov, Genrikh A., D. Chem S. Born in 1933. Academician of the General and
Technical Chemistry Department of the AN SSSR from 1987, and first Deputy
Chairman of the Urals Department since 1988. Since 1977, he has been Director of
the Chemistry Institute in Ufa. Established in 1960, it studies the methods of
processing sulfur crudes into fuels. He was named Chairman of the Bashkir
Affiliate in 1984.
Deputy Chairmen:
Chichkanov, Valerii P., D. Econ. S. Russian economist. Corresponding member of
the Economics Department and of the Urals Department of the Academy since
1981. From 1980 to 1987, he was Director of the Economics Study Institute at
Khabarovsk under the Far Eastern Department that studied the economic
development of the Russian Far East. In 1987, he was made Director of the
Economics Institute in Ekatarinburg which sprang from a research group organized
in 1941, to become a Department of Economic Studies of the Urals Branch of the
Academy in 1951, and in 1971 of the Urals Department. In 1971, the Institute of
Economics of the Urals Department was reorganized. Its scientists in the past have
worked closely with the State Planning Committee. The Institute studies methods of
improving production efficiency in the Urals region. Special attention is given to
energy production, capital investment policies and the introduction of new
technologies into production. (LDA 89-11378.)
Koroteev, Viktor A., C. GM. S. Corresponding member of the Geology,
Geochemistry, Geophysics and Mining Sciences Department and of the Urals
Department since 1987; academician since 1993. Since 1975, he has been Director
of the V. I. Lenin Ilmenskii State Reserve in Miass in Cheliabinsk (Chelyabinsk)
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