Efim Malitikov President of the International Association “Znanie”. Doctor of Economics, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Doctor of Economics and Law. Professor at the University of Chicago and the University of Denver (USA). Chairman of the CIS Interstate Committee for Knowledge Dissemination and Adult Education. President of the Academy of Information Science of International entities. Member…
Konstantin Vasilievich Frolov (July 22, 1932, Kirov, Kaluga Region – November 18, 2007, Moscow) – Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1984; then RAS, 1991), specialist in the field of machine science and engineering. Chairman of the Board of All-Union Znanie Society (1990-1991). He was born in family of employees, had twin sister. In…
Nikolai Basov (December 14, 1922, Usman, Tambov Province – July 1, 2001) – Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize winner in Physics (1964). Double Hero of Socialist Labor (1969, 1982). Deputy of the USSR Supreme Soviet Union Council in 9-11 convocations from Moscow. Chairman of the Board of All-Union Znanie Society (1978-1990). Н. G. Basov was born…
Ivan Ivanovich Artobolevsky (September 26 [October 9], 1905, Moscow, Russian Empire – September 21, 1977, Moscow Oblast, USSR) was a Soviet mechanical scientist, specialist in the theory of mechanisms and machines; member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor (1969). He was the Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Society “Znanie”…
Vladimir Alekseevich Kirillin (1913 – 1999) – Soviet state and party figure, physicist, prominent scientist in the field of energy. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1962; corresponding member 1953), vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1963-1965). A member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (since 1937). Chairman of the Board of…
Nikolai Nikolaevich Semenov (April 3 (15), 1896, Saratov – September 25, 1986, Moscow) was a Soviet physicochemist, one of the founders of chemical physics. Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1932; corresponding member since 1929), the only Soviet winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (he received it in 1956 together with…
Mark Borisovich Mitin (real name Gershkovich; June 22 (July 5), 1901, Zhitomir – January 15, 1987, Moscow) was a Soviet philosopher, publicist, political and social activist, one of the main ideologists and apologists for Stalinism. He is the author of works on dialectical and historical materialism, “critique of bourgeois philosophy”. Member of the RCP(b) since…
Alexander Ivanovich Oparin (1894-1980) was a Soviet biologist and biochemist, Theorist who created the theory of origin of life on Earth from abiotic components; member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1946; corresponding member since 1939), Hero of Socialist Labor (1969); Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Society “Znanie” (1951-1956). He was born on…
Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov (March 12 (24), 1891, Moscow – January 25, 1951, Moscow) – Soviet physicist, founder of the scientific school of physical optics in the USSR, full member (1932) and president of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1945-1951), public figure and science popularizer. Winner of four Stalin prizes (1943, 1946, 1951; 1952 posthumously). Chairman…
