Series: Science of RussiaIssuer: MPHKBWeight: 31,1 gr.Standard: Ag 999Diameter: 40 mmThickness: 2 mmYear: 2014.Face value – dollarDesign: Iren Ter Sarkisyan Obverse: Andrey Kapitsa was a prominent Russian geographer and geomorphologist. He was born on July 9, 1931 in Cambridge, in the family of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Pyotr Kapitsa, and died in Moscow on August 2, 2011 at the age of 80.Kapitsa graduated from Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, in 1953. He took part on discovery of Lake Vostok in the Antarctic and participated in four Soviet expeditions to the South Pole.In 1967—1968 he headed geophysical expedition of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Eastern Africa. In the in the seventies he was a founder and first director of the Pacific Institute of Geography in Vladivostok and he put inestimable contribution to the development of the Department of Geophysical Sciences of FESU..He was a corresponding member of RAS, honored professor of the Moscow State University, doctor of geography, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and Russian Federation. He was awarded several prizes, including State Premium of the USSR, (1971 and Anuchin’s Premium (1972) He was also a honored science worker of the Russian Federation (2002).everse Pacific Institute of Geography of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a federal budgetary state-owned scientific entity, and a leading scientific geographical institution in the Russian Far East, It was established on October 1, 1971 to coordinate geographical researches in continent-ocean transition zone Andrey P. Kapitsa, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR From 1979 to 1991 the institute was headed Gleb I. Khudyakov, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSRFrom 1991 up to now the Institute has been headed by Pyotr Ya, Baklanovm, an academician of the RASMain fields of the Institute scientific activities are as follows;Study on structures and dynamics of geographical systems in the transition zone (land – ocean) and their modeling. Study on the ways of development and optimization of regional types of nature management, including coastal one, based on GIS and development of regional programs of stable nature management .Study on dynamics and interactions of territorial nature resource systems and territorial structures of economy and resettlement. development of programs for sustainable development of the Far Eastern regions of Russia, taking into account the integration processes in the Asia-Pacific region Pacific Institute of Geography, FEB of the Far Eastern Academy of Sciences takes an active part in the implementation of federal programs : "Global environmental change and climate ", " Saving the Amur tiger and other rare species of animals and plants in the south of the Far East", OceansStaff of the Institute works within the program of basic scientific research Academy of Sciences, as well as - for the projects supported by competitive programs of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences , department of Earth Sciences by RAS Far Eastern Branch of RAS Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Russian Foundation for the Humanities and other research funds , as well as - the President of the Russian Federation grants . International Monitoring Centre for UNESCO.operates at the InstituteTotal number of employees - 182 peopleResearchers - 95including Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences - 1Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences - 1PhDs - 22Cand Sci - 44

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