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WEEKLY OF THE SIBERIAN BRANCH OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (SB RAS)

N 13 (2698) April 2009

	NEWS
	THE DAY OF GEOLOGIST! On the first Sunday of April the Day of Geologist is traditionally celebrated in our country. Being considered some decades ago as the most romantic trade, in the course of time it became practically epoch-making for Russia.
	ACADEMICIAN MICHAIL ALEKSANDROVICH GRACHEV IS 70 Congratulation of the SB RAS Presidium.
	LIFE POSITION OF ACADEMICIAN GRACHEV April, 1 outstanding scientist, the Director of the Limnological Institute of the SB RAS Academician Michail Aleksandrovich Grachev have been 70.
	MICHAIL GRACHEV’S BAIKAL "LANDING" Many years the Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the RAS steadily holds a firm place among the leading institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
	ACADEMICIAN OF THE RAMS YURI IVANOVICH BORODIN IS 80 Congratulation of the SB RAS Presidium.
	ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS IN IRKUTSK Celebrations devoted to the 60th anniversary of the Irkutsk Scientific Center have taken place in Irkutsk.
	INNOVATORS, THE ACCELERATORS OF ECONOMY March, 24 a meeting of the Governor of the Novosibirsk Region V.A.Tolokonski with the heads of the enterprises of innovation business took place at the Novosibirsk Academgorodok.
	NOVOSIBIRSK AND KEMEROVO TO CONTINUE BUILDING THE TECHNOPARKS The project of the creation of technoparks in Russia is actually suspended, and that that is made under the pretence of technoparks, is too far from the initial purpose.
	THE ASPECTS OF PLANTS GENETIC RECONSTRUCTION From time immemorial the efforts of a man were directed on the taking as much as possible advantage from everything that grows, ears and fructifies. And the world has appreciably promoted in these aspirations, especially since researchers-geneticists have joined this business.
	EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF BIOTECHNOLOGIES At the end of March the Novosibirsk State University was visited by the group of experts of the USA National Academy of Sciences. The purpose of the visit was to discuss the situation developed in the field of biotechnologies, biological safety and bioethics both in the USA and in Russia.
	FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF DIETARY FOOD A company of the Koltsovo Science-town has presented a new "know-how" of dietetic foodstuff production at the European Congress on healthy food.
	A NEW BOOK ABOUT THE RICHES OF THE BOWELS OF RUSSIA Mineral resources are the major, basic factor of today's Russian life. They provide the most contribution to the budget, industrial production, export and currency gain. They are a unique basis for the formation of the Stabilization and Reserve funds as well as the Fund of National Welfare.
	THE 35th ALL-SIBERIAN GEOLOGICAL OLYMPIAD Last free days of the spring vacation the schoolchildren of 3-11 forms are gathering in the Novosibirsk Academgorodok for the Geological Olympiad.
	THE WORLD OF MISHA GROMOV March, 26 the Norwegian Academy of Science and Literature has awarded the Abel Prize for 2009 to Michail Leonidovich Gromov, a "Russian-French" scientist who become professional mathematician within the precincts of the St.-Petersburg University and is working in the French Institute of Supreme scientific research.
	VACANCIES
	ANNOUNCEMENT The Novosibirsk Innovation-and-investment Corporation invites the authors of inventions and the owners of know-how in various fields of science and engineering for cooperation.
	EDUCATION: THE STORM OF REFORMS Press review.
	THE ARTISTS OF YUGRA IN THE ACADEMGORODOK The showroom of the House of Scientists of the SB RAS is presenting for public the works by the artists of different parts of Russia. This time the pictures of the artists of the North are exposed.
	ACADEMIAD-2009 At the end of February the Novosibirsk Academgorodok has once again gathered the strongest skiers of the Academy of Sciences for traditional competitions within the framework of the ski race Academiad of the RAS. This year, despite of the global financial crisis and the ringing Siberian frost, a record-breaking number of teams of three regional Branches of the RAS and four regional Scientific centers of the SB RAS took part in the All-Russian forum.
	IN MEMORIAM Doctor Sc. (Geology and Mineralogy) Fabian Grigorievich Gurari.
	IN MEMORIAM Doctor Sc. (History) Ivan Afanasievich Moletotov.