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with the theory of state and law, and with the problems of applying cybernetics to
social research and of social management and planning. (GSE 12, p. 421.)
Lapin, Nikolai I., D. Phi. S. Corresponding member of the Philosophy and Law
Department of the Academy since 1987. From 1987 to May of 1988, he acted as
Director of the Philosophy Institute in Moscow. He was replaced by Viacheslav S.
Stepin. He is heading study and research in the dialectics of the development of
socialism today and the essential contradictions and qualitative renewal of socialist
society at the Philosophy Institute. (LDA 89-11378.)
Meliukhin, Serafim T., D. Phil. S. Born in 1927. Corresponding member of the
Philosophy and Law Department of the Academy since 1981. Member of the Bureau
of the Department.
Romodanovskiaia (aya), Elena K., D. Philological S. Born in 1937, she graduated
from the Leningrad State University in 1959. She has been a corresponding member
of the Language and Literature Department of the AN SSSR from 1991. From 1962
to 1967, she was an aspirant at the Institute of Russian Literature located at Pushkin
House. In 1968 she completed her candidate dissertation, and in 1975 she became a
leading senior scientific researcher there. In 1988, she completed her doctoral
degree. She is a specialist in the literature of the 17th-century Siberian Territory. She
has participated in a number of scientific conferences, and is an editor of a number
of publications.
Rutkevich, Mikhail N., D. Phil. S. Born in 1917 in Kiev. Philosopher. Corresponding
member of the Philosophy and Law Department of the Academy since 1970. He
graduated from the Department of Physics at the University of Kiev in 1939 and
started teaching philosophy in 1947. From 1953 to 1966, he headed the
Subdepartment of Philosophy at Urals University in Ekaterinburg--then Sverdlovsk,
and from 1966 to 1972 he served as dean of the university's Department of
Philosophy. From 1972 to 1976, he was Director of the Institute of Sociological
Research of the Academy in Moscow. His works are on dialectical materialism,
historical materialism, and sociological research. He holds various medals and
orders. (GSE 22, p. 513.)
Shinkaruk, Vladimir I., D. Phil. S. Born in 1928. (Philosophy). Corresponding
member of the Philosophy and Law Department of the Academy since 1981. Since
1968, he has been Director of the Philosophy Institute in Kiev. Since 1978, he has
been an academician of the Literature, Linguistics and Art department of the
Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The Ukrainian Academy's Council on
Philosophical and Social Problems of Science and Technology is under Academician
V. I. Shinkaruk, who was awarded the Manuil’skii Prize for History, Philosophy,
and Law in 1977 and who was the recipient of the State Prize for Science and
Technology in 1982.
Soktoyev, Aleksandr B., D. Philological S. Born in 1931. Specialist in literature and
folklore. Corresponding member of the Philosophy and Law Department of the
Academy and of the Siberian Department since 1990. Head of a sector of the
History, Philology and Philosophy Institute of the Siberian Department in
Novosibirsk-Akademgorodok. In 1991, he assumed the Directorship of the Institute
of Philology in Akademgorodok. In the 1990s, the institute joined with the Institute
of the Physico-Engineering Problems of the North under corresponding member
Larionov, and with the Cryology of the Earth Institute under corresponding member
Melnikov in Tiumen to form a new International research Center for Northern
Territories Development in Siberia. As Director of the new Institute of Philology in
Akademgorodok-Novosibirsk, Dr. Soktoyev will play a major role in the development
of this new international research center. He has authored 119 scientific
works, of which two monographs have particular significance, and he is the coauthor
of 10 publications of which two are monographs, of which “The History of
Buriat Soviet Literature” is one (1967). He teaches at the Buriat State Pedagogical
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