Volume 78, Number 4, 2008

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.

On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium

V. P. Kozlov

Documentary Publications in Russia p. 329  abstract

Archive Materials Are the Base of Historical Research (Paper Discussion) p. 333  abstract

V. A. Stonik and G. A. Tolstikov

Natural Products: Designing Russian Medications p. 338  abstract

Science and Society

A. L. Buchachenko and D. A. Kuznetsov

Nuclear–Magnetic Control over Energy Carrier Synthesis in Living Organisms p. 346  abstract

N. P. Popov

Is Poverty Not a Crime? p. 351  abstract

Organization of Research

G. A. Mesyats, S. M. Aldoshin, V. M. Buznik, and O. E. Nikitina

RAS Presidium’s Program Innovation and Development Support: Progress Analysis p. 356  abstract

Environmental Problems

F. R. Zaidel’man

Protecting Soils against Degradation p. 362  abstract

Interview

Momentous Enigmas of the Oil and Gas Industry
An interview with RAS Academician A.N. Dmitrievskii,
director of the RAS Institute of Oil and Gas Problems p. 370  abstract

Point of View

E. V. Balatskii

Mental Circuits, Society Stratification, and Civilization Waves p. 377  abstract

A. N. Romashov^†

Types and a General Model of Interactions p. 383  abstract

From the Researcher’s Notebook

M. E. Pozdnyakova and V. V. Moiseeva

The Role of Religious Communities in Countering Drug Abuse p. 390  abstract

Profiles

Yu. G. Molotkovskii and V. T. Ivanov

Pioneering Bioorganic Chemistry
(On the Centenary of the Birth of Academician M.M. Shemyakin) p. 397

B. I. Katorgin and L. E. Sternin

Chief Designer of Rocket Engines and Systems
(On the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Academician V.P. Glushko) p. 403

N. A. Armand

Three Embodiments of a Researcher: Radiophysicist, Engineer, and Organizer of Science
(On the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Academician V.A. Kotel’nikov) p. 411

Times and Mores: Memoirs, Letters, Diaries

I. N. Fridlyander

From the History of Aluminum Alloys (A Developer’s Memoir) p. 416

Bygone Times

M. A. Pal’tsev, A. M. Stochik, and S. N. Zatravkin

Physiology and Its Teaching at Moscow University’s Faculty of Medicine in the 18th Century p. 421

Science News

Tsiolkovskii and Our Times

Paper by RAS Corresponding Member M.Ya. Marov p. 428

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