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The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Template:Langx Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk) consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals. Peter the Great established the academy (then the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences) in 1724 with guidance from Gottfried Leibniz.<ref name=":1" />

From its establishment, the academy benefitted from a slate of foreign scholars as professors; the academy then gained its first clear set of goals from the 1747 Charter.<ref name=":1"/><ref name=":02" /> The academy functioned as a university and research center throughout the mid-18th century until the university was dissolved, leaving research as the main pillar of the institution.<ref name=":1"/> The rest of the 18th century continuing on through the 19th century consisted of many published academic works from Academy scholars and a few Academy name changes, ending as The Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences right before the Soviet period.<ref name=":1"/><ref name=":3" />

Now headquartered in Moscow, the academy (RAS) is a non-profit organization established in the form of a federal state budgetary institution<ref name="about">General information about the Academy. Template:In lang.</ref> chartered by the Government of Russia. In 2013, the Russian government restructured RAS, assigning control of its property and research institutes to a new government agency headed by Mikhail Kotyukov. Template:As of, the academy included 1,008 institutions and other units;<ref>Official list of units under jurisdiction of the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations (these are units of RAS), 27 October 2017, in Russian.</ref> in total, about 125,000 people were employed of whom 47,000 were scientific researchers.<ref>Report of the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations Template:Webarchive (number of employees: page 8), 20 March 2017, Template:In lang.</ref>

MembershipEdit

There are three types of membership in the RAS: full members (academicians), corresponding members, and foreign members. Academicians and corresponding members must be citizens of the Russian Federation when elected; however, some academicians and corresponding members were elected before the collapse of the USSR and are now citizens of other countries. Members of RAS are elected based on their scientific contributions – election to membership is considered very prestigious.<ref name=members>Academy membership (in Russian)</ref>

In the years 2005–2012, the academy had approximately 500 full and 700 corresponding members. In 2013, after the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences became incorporated into the RAS, a number of the RAS members accordingly increased. The last elections to the renewed Russian Academy of Sciences were organized from May 30 to June 3, 2022.<ref name="elect2022">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

As of November 2, 2024, the academy had 1873 living Russian members (full: 802, corresponding: 1071) and about 430 foreign members. Since 2015, the academy also awards, on a competitive basis, the honorary scientific rank of a RAS Professor to the top-level researchers with Russian citizenship. RAS professorship is not a membership type but its holders are considered as possible candidates for membership; some professors became members already in 2016, in 2019 or in 2022 and are henceforth titled "RAS professor, corresponding member of the RAS" (163 scientists) or even "RAS professor, academician of the RAS" (16 scientists). There are 713 scientists with this rank.<ref name="listsofprofs">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="nextelect">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="elect_p2022">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Present structureEdit

The RAS consists of 13 specialized scientific divisions, four territorial branches and 15 regional scientific centers. The academy has numerous councils, committees, and commissions, all organized for different purposes.<ref>Academy structure (in Russian)</ref>

Territorial branchesEdit

Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS)

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The Siberian Branch was established in 1957, with Mikhail Lavrentyev as founding chairman. Research centers are in Novosibirsk (Akademgorodok), Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Yakutsk, Ulan-Ude, Kemerovo, Tyumen and Omsk. As of end-2017, the Branch employed over 12,500 scientific researchers, 211 of whom were members of the Academy (109 full + 102 corresponding).<ref name=sbras>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (UB RAS)

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The Ural Branch was established in 1932, with Alexander Fersman as its founding chairman. Research centers are in Yekaterinburg, Perm, Cheliabinsk, Izhevsk, Orenburg, Ufa and Syktyvkar. As of 2016, 112 Ural scientists were members of the Academy (41 full + 71 corresponding).<ref name=ubras>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPbB RAS)

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The St. Petersburg Branch was established in 2023. As of June 1, 2025, 183 scientists from St. Petersburg were members of the Academy (74 full + 109 corresponding).<ref name=spbras>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS)

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The Far East Branch includes the Primorsky Scientific Center in Vladivostok, the Amur Scientific Center in Blagoveschensk, the Khabarovsk Scientific Center, the Sakhalin Scientific Center in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the Kamchatka Scientific Center in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the North-Eastern Scientific Center in Magadan, the Far East Regional Agriculture Center in Ussuriysk and several Medical institutions. As of 2017, there were 64 Academy members in the Branch (23 full + 41 corresponding).<ref name=febras1>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Regional centersEdit

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The building of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg on Universitetskaya Embankment

InstitutionsEdit

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Member institutions are linked via a dedicated Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI). Started with just three members, The RSSI now has 3,100 members, including 57 from the largest research institutions. Russian universities and technical institutes are not under the supervision of the RAS (they are subordinated to the Ministry of Education of Russian Federation), but a number of leading universities, such as Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University, Novosibirsk State University, and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, make use of the staff and facilities of many institutes of the RAS (as well as of other research institutions); the MIPT faculty refers to this arrangement as the "Phystech System".

From 1933 to 1992, the main scientific journal of the Soviet Academy of Sciences was the Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}); after 1992, it became simply Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}). The academy is also increasing its presence in the educational area. In 1990, the Higher Chemical College of the Russian Academy of Sciences was founded, a specialized university intended to provide extensive opportunities for students to choose an academic path.

AwardsEdit

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HistoryEdit

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In the Russian EmpireEdit

Creation of the AcademyEdit

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Portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The academy was a culmination of Emperor Peter the Great's inspiration from his tours to Western Europe and its higher education centers along with the beginning of his correspondence with Gottfried Leibniz, a philosopher, mathematician, and diplomat.<ref name=":02">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":12">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Peter's Western European travels introduced him to the new inventions and ideas of the Enlightenment period.<ref name=":12" /> Leibniz was attracted to Peter's desire to promote education and science in Russia through modernization of the academic system as he had seen in Western Europe, although he could not get a meeting with Peter during Peter's first European tour.<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":12" /> Leibniz did, however, begin correspondence with Peter's advisors where he discussed different plans to achieve the westernization of Russia.<ref name=":12" /> Leibniz suggested an education reform which divided schools, universities, and academies, as well as creating new academies and schools.<ref name=":12" /> Also, Leibniz suggested creating an arts and sciences institution with faculty consisting of leading foreign scholars.<ref name=":12" />

Following Leibniz's advice, Peter founded the St. Petersburg Academy of Science a year before he died, in January 1724 and the Senate decree of February 8, 1724 implemented the academy.<ref name="about" /><ref name="NTRS">Template:Cite reportTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref> It was modeled after the centralized structure of the Paris Academy and the Berlin Academy of Sciences.<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":12" /> These model institutions had led to an educated society of philosophical men, something Peter wanted in Russia.<ref name=":2">Template:Cite journal</ref> In particular, the Berlin Academy of Sciences was founded by Leibniz, exemplary of the influence which Leibniz had on the creation of the St Petersburg Academy of Science.<ref name=":2" /> The Paris Academy was administered directly by the King, which inspired Peter to make himself the supreme head of the St Petersburg Academy of Science, although there could be an academy president.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early years of the AcademyEdit

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Original headquarters of the Imperial Academy of Sciences – the Kunstkamera in Saint Petersburg

Peter's widow and Empress Catherine I followed through with the establishment and formation of the academy, opening it in December 1725.<ref name=":02" /> Mathematics, physical sciences, and humanities were the three departments which made up the academy upon its opening.<ref name=":12" /> The academy also contained a university and secondary school, promoting higher education in Russia.<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":1">Template:Cite journal</ref> As such, the initial 17 scholars had to teach and administer research.<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":2" /> They were a portion of the 84 Academy staff in 1726<ref name=":2" /> There were also student assistants who helped the scholars and taught in the secondary school.<ref name=":5">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 112 students ages 5–18 made up the total first year enrollment in 1726.<ref name=":1" /> 76 of the 112 students were Russian while the other 36 students were foreign.<ref name=":1" /> The academy did not have an official charter until 1747.<ref name=":2" /> Peter I did lay out the goals for the academy in a document signed before his death called the "Project".<ref name=":2" /> In the document, Peter wished for the academy to be a model for Russia.<ref name=":2" />

Since the academy was under the Tsar, the presidents, vice-presidents, directors, and vice-directors were all appointed by the crown.<ref name=":1" /> Catherine I started this precedent which lasted until the end of the Russian Empire.<ref name=":1" /> The academy hit hard times during Empress Anna's rule. A low of 6 students remained in 1744 and the teaching was in German, contrary to Peter I's wishes.<ref name=":1" /> The academy achieved a major goal in the 1740s by turning out the first Russian scholar members, Stepan Krasheninnikov and Mikhail Lomonosov.<ref name=":1" />

Post-1747 CharterEdit

The academy's charter in 1747 brought some changed to the academy's organization which stood until the end of the century.<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":1"/> Among some of the changes were Russian and Latin as the official languages, a push to translate literature into Russian, and restrictive working hours for faculty.<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":1"/> The charter also emphasized the hope for Russian Academy graduates to replace all the foreign scholars in time.<ref name=":1"/> Most of the secondary school graduates went into civil service instead of continue to the university.<ref name=":1"/> The university part of the academy gradually deteriorated and eventually died by 1767.<ref name=":1"/>

During Catherine the Great's rule, she enacted reforms to improve the academy for scholars.<ref name=":02" /> She created a commission of academy faculty to lead the academy instead of bureaucratic rule.<ref name=":02" /> Also, in the second half of the 18th century, Russian scholars grew in number among the faculty of the academy.<ref name=":1"/> To heal the growing internal German versus Russian conflict of the faculty, Catherine the Great convinced Euler to return to St Petersburg and head the academy in 1766, where he stayed until he died in 1783.<ref name=":02" /> Catherine the Great's son Paul I's short reign marked a decline for the academy as he cut funding for academic institutions and prohibited Russians from attending Western influenced institutions.<ref name=":02" /> In 1803, Alexander I reverted to reforms from Catherine the Great's era and gave the academy self-administration power in a new charter.<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":1"/> The new charter came with a name change to the Imperial Academy of Sciences.<ref name=":5" />

Scholars and researchEdit

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Christian Wolff, who was pivotal in attracting foreign scholars to the academy

Following Leibniz's instructions, Peter reached out to the German philosopher Christian Wolff, a correspondent of Leibniz, in the early 1720s and unsuccessfully offered him the Vice-Presidency of the academy.<ref name=":12" /> While Wolff declined a position in the academy, he did invite western scholars to work at the academy to improve higher education within the Russian Empire as outlined in Leibniz's letters.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite journal</ref> Foreign scholars invited to work at the academy included the mathematicians Leonhard Euler (1707–1783),<ref name=":0" /> Anders Johan Lexell, Christian Goldbach, Georg Bernhard Bilfinger, Nicholas Bernoulli (1695–1726) and Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782), botanist Johann Georg Gmelin, embryologists Caspar Friedrich Wolff, astronomer and geographer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, physicist Georg Wolfgang Kraft, historian Gerhard Friedrich Müller and English Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne (1732–1811).<ref name=":0" /><ref> {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} </ref>

Expeditions to explore remote parts of the country had Academy scientists as their leaders or most active participants. These included Vitus Bering's Second Kamchatka Expedition of 1733–1743, expeditions to observe the 1769 transit of Venus from eight locations in Russian Empire, and the expeditions of Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811) to Siberia. The expeditions led to the creation of an atlas of Russia and to research in astronomy, geography, and fauna and flora.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> From 1750 to 1777, the academy published 20 volumes of their academic journal called Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae.<ref name=":1"/> The majority of Russian scientific research in the 18th century was done by members of the academy.<ref name=":1"/>

Academy name changesEdit

Originally called The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (Template:Langx), the organization went under various names over the years, becoming The Imperial Academy of Sciences and Arts (Императорская академия наук и художеств; 1747–1803), The Imperial Academy of Sciences (Императорская академия наук; 1803–1836), and finally, The Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (Императорская Санкт-Петербургская академия Наук, from 1836 and until the end of the empire in 1917).

Official Academy Name Years
The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences 1725–1747
The Imperial Academy of Sciences and Arts 1747–1803
The Imperial Academy of Sciences 1803–1836
The Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences 1836–1917

A separate organization, called the Russian Academy (Template:Langx), was created in 1783 to work on the study of the Russian language. Presided over by Princess Yekaterina Dashkova (who at the same time was the Director of the Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences, i.e., the country's "main" academy), the Russian Academy was engaged in compiling the six-volume Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language (1789–1794). The Russian Academy was merged into the Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1841.

In the Soviet UnionEdit

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Shortly after the October Revolution, in December 1917, Sergey Fedorovich Oldenburg, a leading ethnographer and political activist in the Kadet party, met with Vladimir Lenin to discuss the future of the academy. They agreed that the expertise of the academy would be applied to addressing questions of state construction, while in return the Soviet government would give the academy financial and political support.

The most important activities of the academy in the 1920s included an investigation of the large Kursk Magnetic Anomaly, of the minerals in the Kola Peninsula, and participation in the GOELRO plan targeted electrification of the whole country. In 1925 the Soviet government recognized the Russian Academy of Sciences as the "highest all-Union scientific institution" and renamed it the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. In 1934, the academy headquarters moved from Leningrad to the capital, Moscow. The Stalin years were marked by a rapid industrialisation of the Soviet Union for which a great deal of research, mainly in the technical fields, was done. However, on the other hand, in these very times, many scientists underwent repressions for ideological reasons.

In the years of the Second World War, the Soviet Academy of Sciences made a big contribution to a development of modern weapons – tanks (new series of T-34), airplanes, degaussing the ships (for protection against the naval mines) etc. – and therefore to victory of the USSR over Nazi Germany. During and after the war, the academy was involved in the Soviet atomic bomb project; due to its success and other achievements in military techniques, the USSR became one of the superpowers in the Cold War era.

At the end of the 1940s, the academy consisted of eight divisions (Physico-Mathematical Science, Chemical Sciences, Geological-Geographical Sciences, Biological Science, Technical Science, History and Philosophy, Economics and Law, Literature and Languages); three committees (one for coordinating the scientific work of the Academies of the Republics, one for scientific and technical propaganda, and one for editorial and publications), two commissions (for publishing popular scientific literature, and for museums and archives), a laboratory for scientific photography and cinematography and Academy of Science Press departments external to the divisions.<ref>Ashby, Eric. 1947. "Scientist in Russia". Pelican books</ref>

The Academy of Sciences of the USSR helped to establish national Academies of Sciences in all Soviet republics (with the exception of the Russian SFSR), in many cases delegating prominent scientists to live and work in other republics. In the case of Ukraine, its academy was formed by the local Ukrainian scientists and prior to occupation of the Ukrainian People's Republic by Bolsheviks. These academies were:

Republic Local Name Established successor
Ukrainian SSR Академія наук Української РСР 1918 National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Byelorussian SSR Акадэмія Навукаў Беларускай ССР 1929 National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Uzbek SSR Ўзбекистон ССР Фанлар академияси 1943 Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan
Kazakh SSR Қазақ ССР Ғылым Академиясы 1946 National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Georgian SSR საქართველოს სსრ მეცნიერებათა აკადემია 1941 Georgian Academy of Sciences
Azerbaijan SSR Азәрбајҹан ССР Елмләр Академијасы 1945 National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan
Lithuanian SSR Lietuvos TSR Mokslų akademija 1941 Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
Moldavian SSR Академия де Штиинце а РСС Молдовенешть 1946 Academy of Sciences of Moldova
Latvian SSR Latvijas PSR Zinātņu akadēmija 1946 Latvian Academy of Sciences
Kirghiz SSR Кыргыз ССР Илимдер академиясы 1954 National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic
Tajik SSR Академияи илмҳои ҶШС Тоҷикистон 1953 Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan
Armenian SSR Հայկական ՍՍՀ գիտությունների ակադեմիա 1943 National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
Turkmen SSR Түркменистан ССР Ылымлар Академиясы 1951 Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan
Estonian SSR Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia 1946 Estonian Academy of Sciences

Among the most important achievements of the academy of the second half of the 20th century, there is, first of all, the Soviet space program. In 1957 the first satellite was launched, in 1961 Yury Gagarin became the first person in space, and in 1971 the first space station Salyut 1 began its operation. Discoveries were also made in the nuclear branch and in other fields of physics. Furthermore, the academy participated in opening new universities or new study programs in the already existed universities, whose best absolvents started their career at the research institutes of the academy.

Post-Soviet periodEdit

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, by decree of the President of Russia of December 2, 1991, the academy again became the Russian Academy of Sciences,<ref name=about/> inheriting all facilities of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the territory of the Russian Federation. The crisis of the 1990s in the post-Soviet Russia and a consequent drastic reduction of the state support for science have forced many scientists to leave Russia for Europe, Israel or the United States. Some excellent university graduates who could have become promising researchers also switched to other activities, predominately in commerce. The Russian Academy practically lost a generation of people born from the mid-1960s to mid-1970s; this age category is now underrepresented in all research institutes. In the 2000s, the situation in the Russian science and technology has improved, the government announced a modernization campaign. Nevertheless, according to the Russian Academy of Sciences, total R&D spending in 2013 still hovered about 40% below the pre-crisis 1990 levels.<ref name="postsoviet">Template:Cite journal</ref> Furthermore, a lack of competition, decayed infrastructure and continuing, though slightly reduced, brain drain play their part.

Restructured academy 2013 and laterEdit

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Annual number of academicians

On June 28, 2013, the Russian Government announced a draft law that would dissolve the RAS while creating a new "public-governmental" organization with the same name. The RAS would be fused with two other Russian national academies—Template:Ill and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, with all members of all academies acquiring equal status as academicians.<ref name="Sci2014Emb">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The law also created a new government agency: Template:Ill (FASO).<ref name="2013RD_Rev">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> FASO would take control of all buildings and other property of the academy. In addition, all RAS academic institutes were removed from academy control. Instead, the new government agency FASO was empowered to "evaluate", relying on its own criteria, the efficiency of research institutes and rearrange ineffective ones.<ref name="2013RD_Inst">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The draft law, which, in its initial form, would have fundamentally changed the system of science organization in Russia, provoked conflicts and protests within academic circles.<ref name="NatureEditorial2013">Template:Cite journal</ref> A large group of the RAS members signalized their intention not to join the new academy if the reform is run as planned in the draft.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Some leading scientists (including Pierre Deligne, Michael Atiyah, Mumford, and others) wrote open letters which referred to the planned reform of the RAS as "shocking" and even "criminal".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In this situation, the draft was softened in some details—e.g., there remained no words about "dissolution" in the text—and approved on September 27, 2013. In 2014, Putin announced more changes to science funding that reduced RAS power while increasing that of the government.<ref name="Sci2014_Funding">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2017, the election of the RAS president was brought under government control.<ref name="2017NatureElection">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="Sci2017_Presidency">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> At the General Meeting of the RAS in March 2018, the RAS president (that time) Alexander Sergeev said that the academy enters now the post-reform period.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In May 2018, the FASO was incorporated into Russia's new Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The latter was created by splitting the Ministry of Education and Science. Mikhail Kotyukov, who had been head of FASO since its creation, was named head of the new Ministry of Science and Higher Education.<ref name="split18meduza">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Sci2018">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In June 2023, the RAS opened the Modern Ideology of China Research Laboratory within its Institute of China and Contemporary Asia to study Xi Jinping Thought.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

PresidentsEdit

Imperial RussiaEdit

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Soviet RussiaEdit

Russian FederationEdit

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AchievementsEdit

Social activities of the academy and its membersEdit

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Academician Andrei Sakharov, a supporter of the ban on nuclear tests, human rights activist, and public figure

Scientists of the academy were repeatedly elected deputies of various levels. In the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1974, "among the deputies of the Council of the Union, there were 22 scientists from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the academies of sciences of the Union republics, and branch academies."<ref>Report of the mandate committee of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the ninth convocation.</ref> In 1989, Andrei Sakharov became a People's Deputy of the USSR. Many scientists have worked in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, among the most famous are the physicist Zhores Alferov (deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation until his death on March 1, 2019, initiator of the laws "On Education for All" and "On Support for Innovation in Russia"), physician Gennady Onishchenko (from United Russia, member of the committee on education and science), and polar explorer Artur Chilingarov (United Russia).<ref name="dum">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Nobel Prize laureates affiliated with the AcademyEdit

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