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government, he was a deputy chairman of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers. In
1980, he served as chairman for the exhibition of the Achievements of the National
Economy. In 1982, he was deputy chairman of the Interdepartmental Council to
Study Innovations in Socialist Countries. In 1983, he became chairman of the
Committee for Cooperation in Scientific and Technical Research in CEMA. From
October 1986 to 1991, he was President of the Academy of Sciences. Lenin Prize,
1961; Recipient of the State Prize, 1979--for a cycle of works on the development
and application of statistical modeling methods for the solution of multidimensional
tasks of radiation transfer--with others. In 1975, he received the A. A. Fridman
Prize in recognition of his research. In 1980, he was given the M. V. Keldysh Gold
Medal for his work in statistics and mathematics. He presently heads the Institute of
Computing Mathematics in Moscow. (GSE 15, p. 456.)
Academician Pavel Iv. Melnikov, tel.124-54-22
Mel’nikov (Melnikov), Pavel I., D. GM. S. Born in 1908. Corresponding member
since 1968, and academician of the Oceanology, Atmospheric Physics, and
Geography Department and of the Siberian Department since 1981. Geologist.
Specialist in geochronology, engineering geology, and hydrogeology. He
graduated from the Leningrad Mining Institute in 1935. From 1935 to 1956, he
worked as a scientific researcher at the Permafrost Station in Siberia. In 1960, he
was named Director of the Far Eastern Department’s V. A. Obruchev Permafrost
Institute, that was established in 1956 to conduct glaciological and geocryological
studies and expeditions. It is subordinate to the academy's Siberian Department. He
served as its Director until 1988, when he received emeritus status. He has been a
professor at the Yakutsk State University since 1963. He was a member of the
branch office of the Oceanology, Atmospheric Physics and Geography Department
of the AN SSSR from 1971. He headed the Scientific Council on the Earth’s
Cryogenics from 1970. He is the recipient of numerous awards and medals. (GSE
16, p. 103.)
Academician Gennadii V. Smirnov, tel.2-88-90(V.)
Smirnov, Gennadii V., He is an academician of the Department of Ocean Research,
Atmospheric Physics and Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Academician Martin G. Khublarian, tel.265-97-57
Khublarian, Martin G., D. Tech S. Corresponding member of the Oceanology,
Atmospheric Physics, and Geography Department of the Academy since 1984;
academician in 1993. Since 1991, he has directed the research of the Water
Problems Institute in Moscow. Since its establishment in 1967, the institute has
developed some 47 mathematical models ranging from the sedimentation in a tidal
river mouth to a model and program for estimating the effect of the accumulation of
algae and suspensions on the temperature and gas regime of the near-surface layer
of a water body. It has developed flow meters, temperature measurement
thermometers, developed some nine major methodologies for prediction and
planning for water development, protection, and use, and created several large data
banks containing hydrologic information in Russia and the rest of the world.
Cartographic materials that its scientists have created include an atlas of content and
transfer of moisture over Russian territory, bathymetric maps of the Aral Sea, a
hydrographic map of the northern Caspian Sea, diagrammatic maps of world water
reservoirs, map of ground water flow of Central and Eastern Europe, and a map of
surface and ground water runoff in Mongolia derived from space photography.
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