#6(18), 2007

SPECIAL FEATURE:

Great Nothern Expedition: in the Wake of the Academic Detachment

Indigenous Peoples of Siberia. Marriage and family:“...With Siberian peoples, love matches happened sometimes but on very rare occasions”

The Khights of the Taiga:“…No other nation has such highly developed inherent principles of decency as the Tunguses”

Description of the Yakut Custom of Sacrifice

Russian Siberians of the 18th Century and Alcoholism:“…in 1733 remuneration for the head of Okhotka port was 300 rubles, 100 chetverts of bread and 1,300 liters of vodka”

#5(17), 2007

SPECIAL FEATURE:

High temperature plasma obtained under laboratory conditions impresses us with its self-organization and response to an external force

International Uranium Enrichment Centerin Siberia: enriched uranium to be used exclusively for peaceful applications

Biochips are a diagnostic technology of the twenty-first century

Curare alkaloids turned out to be the best for surgical anesthesia

The Fur Season is the tale of the hunters of the taiga Old-Ugrian tribe of Bears

#4(16), 2007

SPECIAL FEATURE:

How through fire, ice and kimberlite pipes a man and a diamond find a way to each other

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

The fungi parasitizing insects can become a source of efficient drugs

Precious opal in the form of nanofilms is a promising material for photonics of the future

Melatonin, a hormone of the pineal gland, plays a most important role in the antitumor immunity

Car and rocket engines can be made more environmentally friendly and safe by using combustion in continuous detonation waves

#3(15), 2007

SPECIAL FEATURE: OIL: HEROES OF OUR PAST... AND PRESENT

Already twenty years ago, Academician Trofimuk developed in detail the concept of development of the East-Siberian Oil and Gas Complex

Legendary Farman Salmanov, a discoverer of oil and gas in West Siberia

The abundance of ticks is not the factor that can predict a high risk of tick-borne encephalitis infection

At a critical subsonic velocity, there appear supersonic flows near the airplane surface

DNA, the depot of hereditary information, is the only molecule that cell repairs

#2(14), 2007

1957: Organization of a branch of the Academy of Sciences to the east of the Urals was a revolutionary event for national and world research communities

Going back to nomadic tradition on a large scale can result in an ecological catastrophe

Living microorganisms with an age of thousands and millions of years have been discovered in the permafrost

High pressures make it possible to produce novel crystal structures

Consumption of traditional alcoholic drinks by aborigines did not make them alcohol-addictive

The cult of "Eight white yurts" counts more than seven hunderd years

Mongolian army: «arrows falling like a shower...»

Where is Chinggis Khan's grave?

Ozone holes are whirlpools of stratospheric vortices

Academician Pallas in Siberia: “These lands promise me a great many amazing discoveries...”

Mobile genetic elements are found in all studied species

On the primitive «fountains» of the Lost World — the Geyser Valley in Kamchatka