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The Academy of Science exerts a powerful influence over the whole administration of Soviet science: it poses the key problems to institutes, approves their programs, appropriates the financial support ...
Under the leadership of rocket scientists like Mikhail Tikhonravov and Sergei Korolev, a new program was approved by the Soviet Academy of Science in 1954 and quickly put America's scientists to ...
The Soviet Academy of Sciences got more than it bargained for when in 1985 it created a commission to eliminate much of the red tape that has strangled innovation in the country’s more than 200 ...
THIS year the Soviet Academy of Science is sending out ninety-nine scientific expeditions to explore remote regions of the Union, including the Kola peninsula, the Ural-Kuznetsk Basin ...
Like many of history’s greatest ideas, Tetris came about quite unintentionally. Alexey Pajitnov was a software engineer at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow, tasked with testing a new ...
IT is announced in the Soviet War News that a new branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences has been opened in western Siberia to direct scientific activities in the territory stretching from the ...
American businesses may be missing out on a treasure-trove of profitable technologies by ignoring research opportunities in the former Soviet Union, a group of U.S. scientists and engineers warns. … ...
Recognizing his talent, the mathematician, geophysicist, and polar explorer Otto Schmidt recruited him to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Get the Space.com Newsletter.
The death of Alexander Mikulin, 90, a Soviet designer of engines for tanks, airplanes and cars, was announced in Moscow this week. Mr. Mikulin, a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, made a la… ...