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expanded and renamed the Scientific Research of National Cultures until 1945
when it came under its present name. In 1951 the name of the Daghestani national
poet Gamzat Tsadasda was added to the institute name. The institute sector of
Archeology and Ethnography was established in 1958. In the early 1970s institute
scholars produced a historico-ethnographic atlas of the republic. The staff of the
institute numbers 158 researchers of whom 23 hold doctorates and 84 hold
candidate degrees. One staff member is a corresponding member of the Russian
Academy of Sciences.
Structure of the institute: the institute is made up of 12 departments:
history of the Soviet period;
history of the pre-Soviet period;
archeology;
ethnography;
Oriental studies;
sociology;
history of the arts;
literature;
folklore;
grammar studies;
lexicology; and
lexicography.
Gadzhi G. Gamzatov, D. Phlg. S., a corresponding member of the AN SSSR from 1984
is Director of the institute. Other scientists who supervise the research program in
the institute include: A. B. Baimurzaev, E. F. Kisriev, V. G. Gadzhiev, G. Sh.
Kaimarazov, A. R. Shikhsaidov, V. G. Ivantsov, V. N. Ganzurov, G. A.
Iskenderov, L. B. Gmyria, A. A. Kudriatsev, E. F. Kisriev, M. M.
Magomedkhanov, M. O. Osmanov, A. I. Islammagomedov, G. A. Sultanov, P.
M. Debirov, M. A. Iakubov, S. Sh. Gadzhiev, E. Iurii Kassiev, S. M.
Khaibullaev, Ch. S. Iusupova, Z. Z. Alieva, N. S. Dzhidalaev, U. A. Meilanova,
Z. G. Abdullaev, E. M. Nazarova, B. B. Talibov, K. S. Kadyradzhiev, B. B.
Talibov, U. A. Meilanova, P. A. Saidova, K. Sh. Mikailov, N. S. Dzhidalaev, A.
M. Adzhiev, Kh. M. Khalilov, A. M. Abdurakhmanov, U. A. Meilanova, and B.
G. Khanmagomedov. The institute maintains ties with UNESCO, the European
Caucasological Society in Great Britain, Iordan University and scholars in Sweden.
The study-museum holds 9,400 items including documentary materials and
personal collections, Oriental manuscripts numbering 10,636 items, Arabic
documents and books, and the archeological depository consists of six large
holdings of some 1,200,000 items. (See: Ruble, Vol. III, pp. 85-86.)
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2. Geology Institute in Makhachkala. Established in 1956. It investigates the mineral
resources and underground waters of Daghestani.
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3. Physics Institute in Makhachkala. Established in 1957. Works on problems of
semiconductor physics, thermophysics, cryophysics, Theoretical Physics and
geophysics.
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