Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1999, V 69, N 1,

Science and Society


V. M. Kotlyakov and G. A. Agranat
The Russian North: A Land with a Vast Potential 
p. 1  

I. V. Gorynin
Structural Materials for the Development of the Arctic Shelf 
p. 6  

I. P. Tsapenko and A. V. Yurevich
A Scientist in Business 
p. 13  


 Organization of Research Activity


E. I. Chazov, V. A. Tkachuk, and V. P. Shirinskii
Prospects of Gene Therapy of Cardiovascular Diseases 
p. 19  

E. M. Galimov, G. B. Udintsev, G. W. Schenke, and T. Schoene
Geodynamic Explorations in Western Antarctica 
p. 24  


Problems of Ecology

G. G. Mateshvili and Yu. D. Mateshvili
How Does Dust Get into the Atmosphere? 
p. 32  


Reviews


A. V. Oleskin
The Political Potential of Modern Biology 
p. 34  

G. R. Ivanitskii
Target-Seeking "Brownian Particles" in the Microworld of Living Systems
p. 40  


Profiles


L.D. Faddeev and I.V. Komarov
Academician V. A. Fock: A Classic of 20th-Century Theoretical Physics 
p. 50
 

 An Essay


N. V. Karlov
Educational Reform 
p. 56  


 Bygone Times


N. A. Grigoryan
Russia's Great Son 
p. 60  

I. P. Pavlov
About Suicides 
p. 62  

I. P. Pavlov
Foundations of Human and Animal Culture 
p. 65  

A. L. Chizhevsky
A Visit to Ivan Pavlov in 1926 
p. 68  


 Science Life


V. I. Arnold
International Mathematical Congress in Berlin 
p. 73  


 Book Review


E. A. Bragina
A. I. Salitsky, The People's Republic of China and Hong Kong:
Postwar Economic Ties, Moscow: RAS Institute of Eastern Studies, 1998, 117
pp. p. 82  


 Official Section


Decisions of the RAS Presidium 
p. 85  

Anniversaries 
p. 86  

Awards and Prizes 
p. 88  


 On the Last Pages


G. I. Anokhin
Lightning Consumes Note 
p. 89  

A.G. Suleimanyan
The Ancestral Home of Indo-Europeans 
p. 91