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 | | Fundamental scientific research is concentrated in Russian Academy of Sciences that includes hundreds of research institutes specializing in all major natural and applied sciences. |
 | | The Academy is proud of its members awarded with the Nobel prize: Ivan Pavlov, Nikolay Semenov, Igor Tamm, Pavel Cherenkov, Pyotr Kapitsa, Ilia Frank, Lev Landau, Alexander Prokhorov, Nikolay Basov, Leonid Kantorovich, Andrey Sakharov and Jorez Alferov. |
 | | It would be appropriate to draw special attention to the Soviet/Russian achievements in discovering space: launching first artificial Earth satellite Sputnik 1 in orbit (1957) and Sputnik 2 carrying a live dog Laika (1957). |
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