Volume 71, Number 2, 2001

Contents
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Simultaneous English language translation of the journal is available from MAIK “Nauka / Interperiodica” (Russia).
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences ISSN 1019-3316.

We Are 70

N. A. Plate

The RAS Herald is 70 Years Old p. 87

These People Headed the Editorial Board of Vestnik Rossiiskoi akademii nauk
(Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences) p. 88

Readers’ Comments on Vestnik RAN (Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences) p. 90

On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium

G. G. Malinetskii and S. P. Kurdyumov

Nonlinear Dynamics and the Problems of Prediction p. 94  abstract

N. A. Chernoplekov

Superconductor Technologies: Present Status and Application Prospects p. 114  abstract

Science and Society

V. I. Osipov

Natural Disasters at the Turn of the 20th Century p. 130  abstract

From the Researcher’s Notebook

V. S. Kovalevskii and M. G. Khublaryan

Improving the Efficiency of Water Resource Systems p. 141  abstract

Point of View

A. S. Spirin

Protein Biosynthesis, the RNA World, and the Origin of Life p. 146  abstract

Problems of Ecology

N. N. Klyuev

Reforming Russia: the Environmental Effects p. 154  abstract

Interview

A Change of Blood p. 160  abstract

Essay

O. N. Trubachev

The Prehistory of a Book p. 165

Profiles

V. B. Belyanin

Light Is the Beginning: On the 125th Birthday
of Academician D.S. Rozhdestvensky p. 170

Yu. I. Neimark

Creator of Nonlinear Dynamics and Physics
On the Centennial of Academician A.A. Andronov p. 176

B. S. Sokolov

A Scientist and Encyclopedist
On the 90th Birthday of A.L. Yanshin p. 181

Discussion Forum

I. A. Rezanov

The Conditions in Which Life Arose in the Solar System p. 185

Bygone Times

R. A. Medvedev

The Private Collection of the “Coryphaeus of All Sciences” p. 193

Reflections on a New Book

V. A. Spichkin

Doubling Wealth-Halving Resources p. 197

Science Life

S. L. Tikhvinskii and A. O. Chubar’yan

The International Congress of Historians p. 200

A. L. Buchachenko and B. R. Shub

Chemical Physics Today p. 203

Book Review

V. K. Levashov

G.I. Marchuk, Zhizn’ v Nauke (Life in Science), Moscow, Nauka, 2000 p. 204

Official Section

Awards and Prizes p. 206

At the End of the Issue

V. V. Sinyukov

A Forgotten Naval Minister p. 210

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