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Siberian Department’s Scientific Council on mathematics and informatics and he is
an honored consultant-specialist of the council. He received the State Prize in 1988.
Kotov, Vadim E., D. PM. S. Born in 1938. Mathematician/physicist. Specialist in
Informatics and Computer Technology. Corresponding member of the Information
Science, Computer Technology and Automation Department of the Academy and of
the Siberian Department since 1990. He is the Director of the Institute for
Informatics Systems of the Siberian Department in Novosibirsk. He is the author of
39 scientific works, and co-author of 67 of which two were monographs. Among
his own books three are important: “Vvedenie v teoriiu skhem programm” (1978)--
”Introduction to Programming”, “Seti Petri” (1984), and “Teoriia skhem programm”--“The
Theory of Programming.”(1984). He is a professor at Novosibirsk
State University where he has guided the academic work of one doctoral and 20
aspirants for the candidate degree. He headed a working group on the theory of
programming of the Department of Information Computer Technology, and
Automation of the Academy.
Krugliakov, Eduard P., D. PM. S. Born in 1934. Russian physicist. Specialist in
Plasma Physics and in the research problems associated with Thermonuclear
Synthesis. Corresponding member of the General Physics and Astronomy
Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences and of the Siberian Department
since December 1987. He graduated from the Moscow Physico-Technical Institute
in 1958. He began work in 1958 at the Budker Nuclear Physics Institute of the
Siberian Department, and in 1976 he has headed the Plasma Physics Laboratory of
the Budker Nuclear Physics Institute in Novosibirsk and has been Head of
"Krugliakov's Department." The institute is the leading nuclear research facility in
Siberia. He was one of the principal organizers of the physics and mathematics
“school” at the University of Novosibirsk--for which students are carefully
screened, tested, and selected from across all of the former Soviet Union for
entrance. He is on the Scientific Council on Plasma Physics of the national
academy, and a permanent member of the national standing commission on atomic
energy of the national government. He received the State Prize in 1986.
Krylov, Sergei V., D. Geog. S. Born in 1931. Russian geographer. Specialist in
geophysics, and in seismic methods of research on the earth’s crust and the earth’s
mantle. Corresponding member of the Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry and
Mining Department and of the Siberian Department since December 1987. He
graduated from the Leningrad Mining Institute in 1955 and began working at a
geological prospecting organization. He joined the Geology and Geophysics
Institute of the Siberian Department in 1961 and served in turn as a junior and senior
researcher, and Head of the Laboratory of Deep Seismic Research. In 1987 he was
named Head of the Department of Geophysics and shortly thereafter, Director of the
institute itself. He has been a professor at the Novosibirsk University since 1979.
Krymskii, Germogen F., D. PM. S. Born in 1937. Physicist. Specialist in nuclear
physics and the physics of cosmic rays. Corresponding member of the General
Physics and Astronomy Department of the RAS since 1992. He has authored or coauthored
207 scientific works of which three are major monographs. He graduated
from the Yakutsk State University in 1959. From 1959, he worked at the Laboratory
for Cosmic Rays, of the Space Physics Research and Aeronomy Institute in Yakutsk
as a laboratory assistant, a laboratory technician, a junior and senior researcher, and
Head of a sector of the theoretical Department, and in May of 1988, he was named
Director of the Space Physics Research and Aeronomy Institute in Irkutsk that had
been established in 1962 and is a center for the study of cosmic rays. He became a
member of the Siberian Department’s Presidium in 1988. He is an Honored Scientist
of the Soviet Union. He was named Chairman of the Yakutsk Scientific Center in
April 1989. In 1990, the Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences
established the Siberian Center of Solar-Terrestrial Physics in Siberia--a new
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