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Kabanov, Mikhail V., D. PM. S. Born in 1937. Physicist. Specialist in the field of
atmospheric physics. Corresponding member of the Oceanology, Atmospheric
Physics, and Geography Department of the Academy since 1987. He graduated
from the Tomsk State University in 1959, and began work as a researcher, was
Head of a laboratory of the Siberian Physico-Technical Institute from 1961 to 1975,
and Head of a laboratory and Deputy Director of the Atmospheric Optics Institute in
Tomsk from 1975 to 1984. In 1984, he was made Director of the Siberian Physico-
Technical Institute. He has been a professor at the Tomsk State University since
1981. Chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission on Radiation of the
Geophysical Committee of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
(Also see: LDA 89-11378.)
Kapitsa, Andrei P., D. Geog. S. Born in 1931 in Cambridge, England. Russian
geographer and geomorphologist. Corresponding member of the OCeanology,
Atmospheric Physics, and Geography Department of the Academy since 1970.
From 1953 until 1970, he worked at the department of geography of Moscow State
University, becoming a professor in 1966, and serving as dean from 1966 to 1970.
He participated in four Antarctic expeditions and in the trans-antarctic crossings from
Mirnyi Station to Pionerskaia (aya) (1956), Mirnyi to the south pole (1959-60), and
from Vostok Station through the Pole of Inaccessibility to Molodezhaia (aya) Station
(1963-64). In 1967-69, he led the Soviet Complex Geophysical Expedition of the
AN SSSR to East Africa. He is also member of the Far Eastern Scientific Center.
He has been Chairman of the Presidium of the Far Eastern Science Center (now
Department) of the AN SSSR since 1970. Son of P. L. Kapitsa. He has been a
member of the Presidium of the AN SSSR since 1971. He is Director of the Pacific
Institute of Geography of the Far Eastern Scientific Center. His major works are on
the dynamics and morphology of the Eastern Antarctic ice cap. State Prize, 1971.
(GSE 11, p. 405.)
Khudiakov, Gleb I., D. GM. S. Corresponding member of the Oceanology,
Atmospheric Physics, and Geography Department of the Academy since December
1987. Also member of the Far Eastern Department. From 1978 to 1980, he was
Chief of a laboratory of the (Far Eastern) Geology Institute in Vladivostok. Since
1980, he has been Director of the Pacific Ocean Geography Institute in Vladivostok
which was established in 1971 to do physical, economic geographical research and
to forecast environmental changes caused by economic development. (LDA 89-
11378.)
Kort, Vladimir G., D. Geog. S. Born in 1914. Corresponding member of the
Oceanology, Atmospheric Physics, and Geography Department of the Academy
since 1979. He was the Director of the Institute of Oceanology of the USSR
Academy of Sciences in Moscow until 1965. He supervised a program which had a
staff of 20 doctors, 90 candidates and 300 junior-level scientists at that time. In
1966, Kort was Chief of the Hydrological Processes Laboratory of the P. P.
Shirshov Oceanology Institute. In 1982, he was the recipient of the S. O. Makarov
Gold Medal for his scientific accomplishments in oceanographic research.
Kurbatkin, Gennadii P., C. PM. S. Born in 1930 in Tashkent. Russian meteorologist.
Corresponding member of the Oceanology, Atmospheric Physics, and Geography
Department of the Academy since 1976. He graduated from the Middle Asian
University (University of Tashkent) in 1953. He was a staff member of the Institute
of Atmospheric Physics of the AN SSSR from 1955 to 1957, the Institute of
Applied Geophysics from 1957 to 1961, and the Hydrometeorological Service of the
USSR from 1961 to 1963. In 1963, he became affiliated with the Computer Center
of the Siberian division (now Department) of the AN SSSR. In 1969, he became
Chief of the Long-Range Weather Prediction Department of the Novosibirsk
Computer Center, and in 1978 he also became Chief of the Physics of Atmospheres
and Oceans Laboratory of the Computer Center in Novosibirsk. His works deal with
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