The Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SBRAS) was established by the Decree of the Government of the USSR which was based on the proposal of

Mikhail Lavrentyev Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentyev (or Lavrentiev, russian: Михаи́л Алексе́евич Лавре́нтьев) (November 19, 1900 – October 15, 1980) was a Soviet Union, Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamics, hydrodynamicist. Early years ...

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and

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in 1957 as a regional division of the

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, replacing a previous small branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

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was founded to serve as a staff base for the Siberian Branch. Lavrentyev was also the founding chairman of the branch.

Publications

The Siberian branch publishes two journals — '' Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia'' and ''Geography and Natural Resource'' — in association with

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References

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