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Technological, and Biological Sciences Department of the Lithuanian academy since
1980. Academician Secretary since 1984. He graduated from the Leningrad
Veterinary Institute in 1952. From 1952 to 1968, he was a graduate student and
researcher at the Helminthology Laboratory of the AN SSSR in Moscow. In 1968,
he became Head of the department of the Biological Problems of the North of the
Northeast Complex SRI of the Siberian department of the AN SSSR. Since 1970,
he has been the Director of the Biological Problems of the North Institute at
Magadan which researches the structure, function and productivity of ecosystems
of the northern latitudes and methods of their preservation and adaptation to the
northern environments. His work is in classification, ecology, and zoogeography
of the parasitic helminths of mammals. In 1987, he was given the E. N. Pavlovskii
Gold Medal for his work in parasitology and zoology. (GSE 13, p. 372.)
Ler, Pavel A. Corresponding member of the General Biology department and of the Far
Eastern department since 1987. (LDA 89-11378.)
Neunylov, Boris A. Born in 1908 in Dankov, Lipetsk Oblast. Russian soil scientist,
Agricultural chemist, and rice-growing specialist. Corresponding member since
1970. Academician of the Academy of Agricultural sciences since 1966. Also a
member of the Far Eastern Department. He graduated from the Far Eastern
Agricultural Institute in 1935. He worked at the Far Eastern Rice Experiment
Station and on a rice-growing sovkhoz from 1935 to 1963. In 1964, he became
acting Chairman and from 1966 to 1970 served as Chairman of the Presidium of the
Far Eastern Department of the AN SSSR. In 1973, he was made Deputy Director
for science of the All-Union SRI of Rice of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural
Sciences located in Belogernoe, Krasnodor Krai. His works are in the physical
chemistry of soils, regulation of oxidation reduction conditions and acidity of rice
paddy soils, and the increase of fertility of rice paddy soils. (GSE 17, p. 505.)
Rysin, Lev P. Corresponding member of the General Biology Department of the
Academy in 1993. He is also currently a Deputy to the Academician Secretary of the
department responsible for organizing all scientific questions.
Shestakov, Sergei V. Corresponding member of the General Biology Department of
the Academy since December 1987. In August 1988, he was selected as Director of
the General Genetics Institute in Moscow which was founded in 1966 to study the
selection and evolutionary genetics of plants, animals and microorganisms. He is
also a member of the Bureau governing body of the General Biology Department of
the Academy. (LDA 89-11378.)
Tikhomirov, Vadim N. Corresponding member of the General Biology Department of
the Academy since December 1987. He is also a member of the Bureau governing
body of the General Biology Department of the Academy. (LDA 89-11378.)x/
Vomperskii, Stanislav Ed. E. Corresponding member of the General Biology
Department of the Academy in 1993. His also the Director of the Forest Science
Institute located in the Odintsovskii district, Moscow region.
Yablokov, Aleksei V., D. Bio. S. Born in 1933. Corresponding member since 1984.
Professor Yablokov in November 1991 was Deputy Chairman of the Committee of
Ecology of the USSR Supreme Soviet with offices in the Kremlin in Moscow. In
1978, he received the A. N. Severtsov Prize for biology and animal morphology.
Zhuchenko, Aleksandr A., D. Bio. S. Born in 1935. Academician of the Moldavian
Academy's Biological and Chemical Sciences Department since 1976.
Corresponding member of the General Biology Department of the Russian
Academy since 1979. President of the Moldavian academy since 1978. (LDA 89-
11378.)
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