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11. Electrophysics Institute in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk). Established in 1986
and subordinate to the Urals Department of the academy. Director Mesiats,
Gennadii A., C. GM. S., since 1986. Mesiats is also Director of the Urals
Department and a former Head of the High Current Electronics Institute in Tomsk.
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12. History and Archeology Institute in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) was
founded in 1988. Structure of the institute: The institute is comprised of four
Departments with subordinate sectors and laboratories. The departments include:
(1.) archeology and ethnography,
(2.) the history of Soviet society;
(3.) pre-1917 history, and
(4.) source study and special historical disciplines.
The staff of the institute numbers 70 researchers of whom eight hold the doctorate and 37
the candidate degree. There is one corresponding member of the Russian Academy
of Sciences on the staff. The institute has established relations with the University
of Chicago, scholars at the Uppsala University in Sweden, and scholars in
Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Poland, and
Yugoslavia. The archives of the institute house manuscripts and early books of the
16th to the 19th centuries. The Director of the institute is Dr. Veniamin V.
Alekseev, D. Hist. S., and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of
Sciences.
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13. The Philosophy and Law Institute in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) was
established in 1988. Structure of the institute: the institute is comprised of seven
task groups:
law and the individual;
law and the economy;
socialism and humanism;
rational analysis of socialist society;
philosophy of history and man;
participation of citizens in the political process, and social rationality humanism,
and a
laboratory on legal information.
The staff of the institute numbers 34 of whom three hold the doctorate and 22 hold
candidate degrees. One staff member is a corresponding member of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. Sergei S. Alekseev, is Director of the institute and a
corresponding member of the academy.
Komi Scientific Center
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Chairman: Roshchevskii, Mikhail P. Corresponding member of the Physiology
Department of the AN SSSR from December 1987. Deputy Chairman of the Urals
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