Herald of RAS, 2002, V 72, N 6.

Science and Society


A. B. Avakyan and M. N. Istomina
Inundation as a Global Multiaspect Problem 
p. 583  

Point of View

V. N. Parmon
The Origin of Life: The Prebiotic Phase 
p. 592  

Review

R. S. Dzarasov
The Anatomy of the Crisis in the Russian Economy 
p. 599  

Profiles

O. N. Kulaeva
Academician A.L. Kursanov: The Labors and the Days
On the Centenary of His Birth 
p. 610

V. L. Yanin
An Historian Armed with a Shovel
On the Centenary of the Birth of A. V. Artsikhovskii,
Corresponding Member, USSR Academy of Sciences 
p. 614

V. S. Myasnikov and I. F. Popova
Iakinf Bichurin's Contribution to Sinology
On the 225th Anniversary of His Birth 
p. 620

Science Life

A. I. Grigor'ev
Space Biology and Aerospace Medicine Today 
p. 628

A. L. Buchachenko and R. Z. Sagdeev
Molecular Ferromagnetics: A New Area of Chemistry 
p. 633

L. Ya. Prokopenko and S. A. Spiridonova
Africa in the Context of North-South Relations 
p. 635

Reflections on a New Book

V. L. Inozemtsev
From "The End of History?" to "The Posthuman Future" 
p. 638

G. A. Eremenko
Russia's Scientific and Technological Development Strategy 
p. 642

V. V. Beletskii
A Great Man of the Past Century 
p. 646

Book Review

S. V. Yakovlev
S.A. Ostroumov, Biologicheskie effekty pri vozdeistvii poverkhnostno-aktivnykh
veshchestv na organismy (The Impact of Superficially Active Substances
upon Organisms: The Biological Effects), Moscow: MAKS-Press, 2001, 334 pp. 
p. 653

I. V. Sledzevskii
Ya.G. Shemyakin, Evropa i Latinskaya Amerika: Vzaimodeistvie tsivilizatsii
v kontekste vsemirnoi istorii (Europe and Latin America: Interaction of 
Civilizations in World History), Moscow: Nauka, 2001, 391 pp. 
p. 655

Official Section


Awards and Prizes 
p. 658

Author Index to Volume 72, 2002 
p. 659

Article Index to Volume 72, 2002 
p. 661