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membership in the Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Chemistry of Physiologically
Active Compounds Department (now the Physical and Chemical Biology
Department) of the academy and of the Siberian Department since 1981. He
graduated from the D. I. Mendeleev Moscow Chemico-Technological Institute in
1947. He worked at the Chemical Physics Institute from 1947 to 1960 when he
joined the Siberian Department in a laboratory studying natural polymers and joined
the Department of biochemistry of the Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry.
In 1962, he acted as Head of the Natural Polymers Laboratory of the Organic
Chemistry Institute in Novosibirsk that was established in 1958 and whose basic
work is in the study of aromatic and heterocyclic chemistry and in natural products.
He was named Director-organizer of the Novosibirsk Bioorganic Chemistry. He
was named to the Presidium of the Siberian Branch in 1988. From 1967 to 1983, he
was a professor on the faculty of natural sciences holding the chair in molecular
biology from 1979. He is an Honored Scientist of the former Soviet Union. He
received the Laureate Prize of the Soviet Ministry in 1987, and the M. M. Shemiakin
AN SSSR Prize in 1988. He holds other recognitions and awards for his work.
Kontorovich, Aleksei Z., D. GM. S. Born in 1934. Geologist. Specialist in general
geology and the geochemistry of oil and gas. Academician since 1990. Deputy
Director of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Siberian Department in
Akademgorodok-Novosibirsk. He is the author of 26 research works and co-author
of 360 publications. His monographs “The Geology of Oil and Gas of the Siberian
Platform,” (1976) and “Prognosis of Oil and Gas Reserves” (1981) are thought to
be most significant. He is a professor at the Novosibirsk State University where he
has directed the doctorate work of eight students and the postgraduate work of 55
aspirants for the candidate degree. He is on the Scientific Council on problems of the
geology and geochemistry of oil and gas of the Russian Academy, of the Lithology
Committee, and is coordinator of the studies on Oil and Gas in the Vostok Region
of the Scientific Council for the “Sibir” program of the Siberian Department. He is
Head of the Novosibirsk Oblast Scientific Technical Oil and Gas Development
Department imeni Academician I. M. Gubkina.
Koropachinskii, Igor Iurii, D. Bio. S. Born in 1928. Biolgist and Dendrologist.
Corresponding member of the General Biology Department of the Russian Academy
of Sciences and of the Siberian Department since December 1987, and academician
since 1992. He has authored and co-authored 85 scientific works of which 12 are
important mongraphs. He graduated from the Siberian Forestry Technology Institute
in 1951. He was an aspirant, assistant, docent, and held the chair in Forest Culture
at that institute. He was a senior researcher at the V. N. Sukachev Forestry and
Timber Institute (in Krasnaiorsk) from 1960 to 1962. From 1962 to 1976, he was
Deputy Directory of that institute and from 1977 to 1983, he was Director of that
institute. In 1983 he was named the Director of the Central Siberian Botanical
Garden in Novosibirsk that was started in 1958 in order to exchange seeds and
plants with other botanical gardens in Russia and abroad to enrich Siberian flora. He
has been a professor at the Siberian Technological Institute since 1982 where he has
guided the work of 13 aspirants for the candidate degree. He is Deputy Chairman of
the Scientific Council on the environmental problems.
Koval’chuk, (Kovalchuk) Boris M., D. Tech. S. Born in 1940. Engineer. Specialist
in the fields of electronics and electrotechnics and electrophysics. Corresponding
member since December 1987, and an academician since 1992. He has authored 130
scientific works and is credited with 11 inventions. He graduated from the Tomsk
Polytechnical Institute imeni S. M. Kirov in 1962 and worked at the Nuclear
Physics Electronics, and Automation Institute in Tomsk from 1962 to 1970. In 1970
he became Head of a laboratory of the Department of high energy electrotechnics and
in 1978, he was made Head of the Pulsed Power Laboratory of the High Currents
Electronics Institute in Tomsk. He is on the Scientific Council on Pulsed Power.
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