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functioning of living beings, stressing the bio-informatic foundations of such
principles.
Fanardzhian, Viktor V., C. Med. S. Born in 1929. (Armenian physiologist). Since
1979, he has served as Vice President of the Armenian Academy of Sciences.
Corresponding member of the Physiology Department of the Russian Academy
since 1984. Since 1978, he has been Director of the L. A. Orbveli Physiology
Institute in Erevan. The institute was founded in 1943 to study problems of
physiology, biochemistry, and pharmacology. It is a leading research facility of its
kind in Armenia.
Fedorov, Sviatoslav N., D. Med. S. Born in 1927. Corresponding member of the
Physiology Department of the Academy since December 1987. In 1987, he was the
recipient of the M. V. Lomonosov Gold Medal for his contributions to Russian
Science. (LDA 89-11378.)
Kryshtal’, Oleg A., D. Bio. S. Born in 1945. (Physical Chemical Membrane Biology).
He received the SSSR State Prize in 1983. Corresponding member of the
Biochemistry, Physiology, and Theoretical Medicine Department of the Ukrainian
Academy since 1985. Corresponding member of the Physiology Department of the
Russian Academy since 1987. (LDA 89-11378.)
Medvedev, Vladimir I. Since December of 1987, corresponding member of the
Physiology Department of the Academy, and Academician Secretary of the
Department. (LDA 89-11378.)
Nozdrachev, Aleksandr D. Corresponding member of the Physiology Department of
the Academy in 1993. He is currently a member of the Bureau governing body of
the Physiology Department of the Academy.
Piruzian, Lev A., D. Med. S. Born in 1936 in Alaverdi, Armenian SSR. Medical
biophysicist. Corresponding member of the Physiology Department of the
Academy since 1974. He graduated from the Erevan Medical Institute in 1961.
Since 1964, he has worked at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the AN SSSR.
Since 1971, he has been Director of the Biological Testing of Chemical Compounds
Scientific Research Institute in Kupavna which was established in 1973 to screen all
new synthetic chemical compounds beneficial to man and to the environment. The
institute is directly subordinate to the Ministry of the Medical and Microbiological
Industry. (GSE30, p. 605.)
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Research Institutes Directly Subordinate to the Physiology Department:
Retrospect: The Physiology Department is one of the smaller Departments of the
academy with a membership of 11 academicians and 16 corresponding members for
a total of 19 members. In 1980, there were only 75 individuals listed in key
research positions in its three scientific research institutes. Its size does not however
diminish the significance of its scientific activity. The three institutes subordinate to
the department are: the Pavlov Physiology Institute, the Higher Nervous Activity
and Neurophysiology Institute, and the I. M. Sechenov Evolutionary Physiology
and Biochemistry Institute.
Organization of the Major Institutes: The Pavlov Physiology Institute in St.
Petersburg has 17 laboratories and one computer center; the Higher Nervous
Activity and Neurophysiology Institute in Moscow has a Foreign Relations
Department and is organized into some 10 laboratories, and the I. M. Sechenov
Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry Institute in St. Petersburg had no
laboratories or departments listed in the Directory from which information on these
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