Russia and Germany have centuries-old cultural, economic, and dynastic ties. Until the end of the 17th century, the German diaspora in Muscovy was small and concentrated in the German Quarter in Moscow. The reign of Catherine the Great (1762 – 1796) featured an active campaign carried out in Russia to engage foreign colonists in the economic development of vacant lands on the outskirts of the s...

ANDREI V. KOROL†,¶,‖ ∗ , ANDREY V. SOLOV’YOV‡,¶,§ †, and WALTER GREINER¶ † Department of Physics, St. Petersburg State Maritime Technical University, Leninskii prospect 101, St. Petersburg 198262, Russia ‡ A.F.Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Russia, Polytechnicheskaya 26, St. Petersburg 194021, Russia ¶ Institut für Theoretische Physik der Johann Wolfgang Goethe...

1 Faculty of Fundamental Medicine, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, Department of Chemistry, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 3 Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, 4 Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany, 5 Institute of Physiologic...

BY NATALIYA V. MAKSIMCHUK1, OLGA V. ZALOMAEVA1, IGOR Y. SKOBELEV1, KONSTANTIN A. KOVALENKO2,3, VLADIMIR P. FEDIN2,3 AND OXANA A. KHOLDEEVA1,* 1Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, pr. Lavrentieva 5, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia 2Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, pr. Lavrentieva 3, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia 3Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Novosibirsk State University, Pirogova str. 2, No...

I. A. Shelykh 1, , M. M. Glazov , D. D. Solnyshkov , N. G. Galkin, A. V. Kavokin, and G. Malpuech 1 LASMEA, UMR 6602 CNRS, Université Blaise-Pascal, 24, av des Landais, 63177 Aubière, France 2 St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, 29, Polytekhnicheskaya, 195251 St-Petersburg, Russia 3 A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, 26, Polytekhnicheskaya, St-Petersburg, Russia 4 Mordovian Stat...

Currently, 47 species of the genus Platypalpus are known from the Caucasus including fourteen species recorded herein for the first time: P. albicornis (Zetterstedt, 1842), P. baldensis (Strobl, 1899), P. caroli Grootaert, 1987, P. ciliaris (Fallén, 1816), P. clarandus (Collin, 1926), P. collini (Chvála, 1966), P. cothurnatus Macquart, 1827, P. infectus (Collin, 1926), P. longicornis (Meigen, 1...

1 Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Division of Experimental and Clinical Cardiology, Research Institute for Complex Issues of Cardiovascular Diseases under the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Kemerovo, Russia 2 Department of Epidemiology, Kemerovo State Medical Academy, Kemerovo, Russia 3 Central Research Laboratory, Kemerovo State Medical Academy, Kemerovo, Russia 4...

Keys to 55 genera of spider wasps of Russia and neighbouring countries in females and males are given. Of them 34 genera are distributed in Russia. An annotated list of genera with type species and distribution data within Russia and biogeographical regions is given. The genus Xenaporus Ashmead, 1902 and X. eremocanus Wolf, 1990 are newly recorded from Russia. According to ICZN 1995 (Opinion 18...

nitride films A. Kardakova, M. Finkel, D. Morozov, V. Kovalyuk, P. An, C. Dunscombe, M. Tarkhov, P. Mauskopf, T. M. Klapwijk, and G. Goltsman Physics Department, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow 119991, Russia Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Dolgoprudny 141700, Russia School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, United Kingdom ...