Volume 77, Number 1, 2007

Contents
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Simultaneous English language translation of the journal is available from Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
Distributed worldwide by Springer. Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences ISSN 1019-3316.

Science and Society

V. I. Danilov-Danil’yan

Water as a Strategic Factor of Economic Development in Russia p. 1  abstract

V. E. Fortov, A. A. Makarov, and T. A. Mitrova

Global Energy Security: Problems and Solutions p. 7  abstract

Yu. D. Tret’yakov

Challenges of Nanotechnological Development in Russia and Abroad p. 15  abstract

On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium

R. V. Kamelin

The Flora of Russia Project (Russian Federation) p. 22  abstract

From the Researcher’s Notebook

S. Johansson and V. S. Letokhov

Unusual Spectral Effects Observed near Carina’s Mysterious Star p. 27  abstract

A. V. Oleskin and T. A. Kirovskaya

A Network Structure in Microbiology p. 32  abstract

Point of View

O. N. Favorskii

Russia’s Power Engineering over the Next 20–30 Years p. 41  abstract

A. O. Karpov

Knowledge Society: Mechanisms of Deconstruction p. 47  abstract

K. K. Val’tukh

Technological Renovation of the Economy and Capital Investments p. 52  abstract

E. V. Belousov

How Old Is Humankind After All? (Investigating an Anomalous Archeological Fact) p. 61  abstract

Profiles

B. E. Chertok

Chief Designer (On the Centenary of the Birth of Academician S. P. Korolev ) p. 67

A. I. Grigor’ev, V. O. Popov, E. R. Kurapova

Pioneer of Space Biology (On the Centenary of the Birth of Academician N. M. Sisakyan) p. 78

History of Academic Institutions

Yu. N. Efremov

The Big Telescope Altazimuthal: Ad Astra per Aspera p. 84

Science News

E. A. Il’in

On Some Problems of Space Biology and Aerospace Medicine p. 94

Reflections on a New Book

A. I. Andreev

Swiss Sacramental Comradeship: A Relict of the Past or a Memory of the Future? p. 99

In the Book World

O. G. Gazenko

N. A. Agadzhanyan, O. I. Aptikaeva, A. G. Gamburtsev, et al.,
Human Ecology in a Changing World (UrO RAN, Yekaterinburg, 2006), 570 pp. [in Russian] p. 104

Z. T. Golenkova, A. Sh. Zhvitiashvili

The Russian Identity in Transformation: A Sociological Essay,
Ed. by M. K. Gorshkov and N. E. Tikhonova (Nauka, Moscow, 2005), 396 pp. [in Russian] p. 106

Official Section

Awards and Prizes p. 110

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