Herald of RAS, 2002, V 72, N 3.

Science and Society 

R. I. Nigmatulin and D. E. Sorokin 
A Strategy for Russia: the Problem of Choice 
p. 253   

E. M. Dianov and A. M. Prokhorov† 
Fiber-Optic Communications and Their Role in Modern Society 
p. 261   

On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium 


A. B. Davidson 
Twenty-First-Century Consequences of the Breakup of Empires 
p. 265   

V. L. Kas’yanov 
Marine Biological Diversity: Study, Protection, and Value for Humankind 
p. 274   

Problems of Ecology 

K. N. Trubetskoi and Yu. P. Galchenko 
Humans and Nature: Contradictions and Ways of Dealing with Them 
p. 283   

Interview 

Immunology: Queen of the Biological Disciplines 
p. 288 

Review 

L. I. Krasnyi 
Variable-Scale Divisibility 
p. 293   

Profiles 

S. I. Fokin 
Academician Kovalevsky and His Descendants 
p. 298 

N. A. Grigor’yan 
Scientist, Human Being, Teacher
The 120th Anniversary of the Birth of Academician L.A. Orbeli 
p. 305 

Yu. B. Monakov and M. A. Saitova 
A Knight of the Science of Chemistry
On the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Corresponding Member S.R. Rafikov 
p. 311 

History of Academic Institutions 

M. F. Khartanovich 
St. Petersburg: Center of Russian 19th-Century Humanities 
p. 315

Times and Mores: Memoirs, Letters, Diaries 

Academicians in Defense of Persecuted Colleagues 
p. 319   

Reflections on a New Book 

V. N. Ivanov 
Social Scientists Recall 
p. 326 

Feedback 

V. G. Surdin 
The Turin Shroud: An Error in Working out an Elementary Problem 
p. 331 

Official Section 

Awards and Prizes 
p. 333   

At the End of the Issue 


Of Those Whom I Remember—With a Smile: From Academician V.L. Yanin’s Collection 
p. 339