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2. Microbiology Institute in Moscow
Located at 7, Building 2, 60-letia Oktiabria ave., GSP-1, Moscow,
117811. Fox: 135-65-30. Directed by Academician Mikhail V.
Ivanov.
Ivanov, Mikhail V. D. Bio. S., Born in 1930. Corresponding member of the
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Chemistry of Physiologically Active Substances
Department of the Academy since 1970, and academician since December 1987.
Since 1979, he has been Director of the Microbiology Institute in Moscow, that was
established in 1930. In 1992, it encompassed over 20 laboratories and research
groups. Areas of study and research include the following: the varieties of the
microbial world and new forms of microorganisms--studied in almost all of the
laboratories; ecological and geochemical studies of halophilic, thermophilic,
acidophilic microorganisms in various types of soil, in water depth and bottom
sediments of the World oceans, and in glaciers in the Antarctica--all of which
focuses on their roles in the cycle of substances in the biosphere--in the processes
of formation, and the variation and destruction of the deposits of soil treasures.
These studies have led to the development of a new branch of biotechnology: the
bio-geotechnology of metals that includes the bacterial enhancement of oil recovery
from oil pools; the study of the cytology, physiology and biochemistry of
microorganisms as producers of physiologically active compounds such as
enzymes, lipids, etc., and, the study of viruses that cause diseases in plants and the
development of measures to fight such diseases.
Retrospect: This institute was established in 1934 from the Microbiology Laboratory
originally located in St. Petersburg. Since its founding, the institute has had only
four Directors: academician G. A. Naadson (1867-1940) from 1934 to 1938;
academician B. L. Isachenko (1871-1948) from 1939 to 1948; academician A. A.
Imshenetskii from 1949 to 1984, and academician Mikhail V. Ivanov from 1984 to
the present (1992). In 1984, the fiftieth year of its existence, the institute had 15
Departments.
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By 1992, it had reorganized into nine laboratories working within four large subject matter
areas. In 1992, it encompassed over 20 laboratories and research groups. Areas of
study and research include the following:
(1.) the varieties of the microbial world and new forms of microorganisms--studied in
almost all of the laboratories;
(2.) ecological and geochemical studies of halophilic, thermophilic, acidophilic microorganisms
in various types of soil, in water depth and bottom sediments of the
World oceans, and in glaciers in the Antarctica--all of which focuses on their roles
in the cycle of substances in the biosphere--in the processes of formation, and the
variation and destruction of the deposits of soil treasures. These studies have led to
the development of a new branch of biotechnology: the bio-geotechnology of metals
that includes the bacterial enhancement of oil recovery from oil pools;
(3.) the study of the cytology, physiology and biochemistry of microorganisms as
producers of physiologically active compounds such as enzymes, lipids, etc., and,
(4.) the study of viruses that cause diseases in plants and the development of measures to
fight such diseases. Much of the work in these large scientific areas is
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