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Krasnoyarsk Science Centre |
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The Institute of Biophysics was a pioneer in elaborating closed artificial survival ecosystems, and on its basis an International Centre for Closed Ecological Systems has been operating there since 1991. The Kirensky Institute of Physics carries out fundamental studies in physics of magnetism and condensed media. Research results of the Institute are applied in designing new materials for electronics and advanced communication media. Research in the Institute of Computational Modelling focuses on intellectual information systems and methods of numerical modelling for a broad scope of problems from tsunami propagation to programmes of ecological safety for population and environment in emergency situations. In the Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, scientific and technological fundamentals are being created for ecologically safe processing of ores and their concentrates, wood, coal, as well as renewable resources and non-traditional raw materials. The Special Design Office «Nauka» deals with pilot and industrial finishing of research results and their implementation. This is also the main focus of the departments of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Physics of Nano-Phase Materials, Industrial Ecology, and a number of other practice-oriented institutions founded by the «Nauka» Office and the institutes of the Centre, and affiliated to the Presidium of the Krasnoyarsk Centre. A holding, based on various marketing and commercial structures, monitors the activity of the technopark zone. The Krasnoyarsk Centre also involves laboratories of the Novosibirsk Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, and the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering. All academic institutions of the Krasnoyarsk Centre of the SB RAS, together with higher schools and industrial enterprises of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, are among founders of the Regional Scientific and Educational Complex and participate in elaboration and implementation of research and development programmes funded from the federal and regional budgets. The Complex is responsible for finishing high technologies and attracting investments.
The Krasnoyarsk Akademgorodok is sited in the suburbs, at the elevated bank of the Yenisei River. It comprises a number of institutes and laboratories with their logistic infrastructure, a residential zone with a scientists’ club, «House of Scientists», a hospital, shops and other social amenities. One of the University buildings, that used to be founded as a branch of the Novosibirsk University, is within the limits of Akademgorodok. There is a specialised secondary school that offers good training in physics and mathematics, humanities, chemistry, biology and arts. |
The Krasnoyarsk region is one of the largest regions of Russia extending for nearly 3000 km from the mountains in Southern Siberia on the south to the Arctic Ocean on the north. The southern part of the region is the best industrially and agriculturally developed in Siberia. Abundant natural resources, such as wood, non-ferrous and noble metals and coal, underlie the regional economy and industry. Highly developed are thermal and hydraulic power, machine engineering, metallurgy, petroleum chemistry and many others. Rich soils and favourable climate conditions provide efficient cattle breeding and high grain yield.
The fact that the greatest portion of world boreal forests is located in Siberia, as well as the high scientific potential of the Institute of Forest, became fundamental for successful work of the Siberian International Centre for Ecological Research of Boreal Forests. 
