academicians, professors - E.A.Abgaryan, M.M.Abdildin, A.A.Akaev, M.A.Aliyev, V.L.Antonovsky, K.Sh.Asaubaev, A.I.Ahiyezer, A.M.Baldin, V.G.Baryakhtar, M.N.Belitsin, V.M.Bogolubov, N.N.Bogolyubov jr, A.P.Bragincky, V.P.Budtov, Yu.E.Veltishev, I.P.Vyrodov, M.A.Gazaiev, V.N.Ganichev, M.D.Goldfein, A.P.Gorkin, V.M.Gryaznov,  B.V.Gusev, A.K.Guskova, V.I.Danilov-Danilyan, E.T.Denisov, G.A.Domrachev, V.A.Dozortsev, E.Ya.Dubrov, V.P.Evtushenkov, D.N.Yemelyanov, S.V.Yemelyanov, B.P.Zhukov, G.E.Zaikov, H.Ch.Zalihanov, N.S.Zefirov, V.G.Kadishevsky, V.P.Kazakov, N.V.Karlov, Yu.L.Klimontovich, S.I.Kolesnikov, F.I.Komarov, G.G.Komissarov, G.V.Korolev, V.A.Kotelnikov, L.V.Kotin, N.A.Krivosheev, O.V.Krylov, O.L.Kuznetsov, R.N.Kuzmin, S.P.Kuleshov, A.M.Kurbatov, N.V.Kurnakova, A.L.Kursanov, M.M.Lavrentyev, F.A.Letnikov, Yu.S.Lipatov, A.A.Logunov, Yu.M.Luzhkov, V.L.Malkevich, E.A.Mambetkaziev, I.A.Manuilova, A.N.Maryashev, G.A.Mesyats, A.K.Mikitaev, N.N.Moiseev, Yu.B.Monakov, I.A.Muravyev, D.A.Muravyeva, N.A.Nazarbaev, E.N.Ovcharenko, M.A.Ostrovsky,  M.A.Paltsev, V.I.Pokrovsky, V.A.Popkov, G.Kh.Popov, E.M.Primakov, E.G.Rozantsev, V.S.Savelyev, V.A.Sadovnichiy, P.D.Sarkisov, L.I.Sedov,  M.Ya.Studenikin, K.V.Sudakov, T.N.Sumarokova, V.V.Sychev, V.A.Tabolin, O.M.Tolkachev, I.V.Torgov, N.E.Turin, I.B.Fedorov, V.M.Frolov, K.V.Frolov, V.A.Khan, O.A.Khrustalev, M.M.Tsikanov, E.M.Shaiykhutdinov, A.Sh.Sharifkanov, V.S.Sheveluha, A.G.Shelepen, V.N.Shestakov, V.D.Sholle, V.B.Shor, V.E.Shukshunov, V.I.Shcherbakov, G.A.Yagodin;

acclaimed actors, artists and other eminent personalities such as - Ch.T.Aitmatov, I.K.Arkhipova, M.L.Biyeshu, E.A.Bistritckaya, V.V.Vasiliev, V.A.Gergiyev, V.V.Gornostaieva, N.N.Gubenko, A.Djumahmatov,  E.D.Doga, J.G.Dozortseva, S.L.Dorensky, A.A.Zolotov, I.D.Kobzon, S.M.Kolobkov, V.I.Korshunov, R.S.Ledenev, O.V.Lepeshinskaja, E.S.Maksimova, A.K.Musahodzhaeva, E.E.Nesterenko, V.I.Pyavko, M.L.Rostropovich, E.F.Svetlanov, Yu.I.Simonov,  P.Ya.Slobodkin, A.B.Solovyanenko, Yu.M.Solomin, Z.L.Sotkilava, L.P.Tikhomirov, O.V.Tikhomirova, V.I.Fedoseev, D.A.Khvorostovsky, B.A.Chernushenko, I.G.Sharoyev, M.A.Esambaiyev;

painters and architects - L.V.Vavakin, A.V.Vasnetsov, I.S.Glazunov, N.V.Obolensky, Yu.P.Platonov, A.G.Rochegov, A.A.Savin, T.T.Salakhov, N.S.Safronov, L.P.Tihomirov, Z.K.Tseretely;

religious dignitaries including - metropolitan Kirill, metropolitan Pitirim;

public figures such as - Yu.N.Abdullaiev, A.D.Apazov, R.S.Aushev, M.H.Ahohov, A.A.Bessmertnych, A.M.Brachykhin, E.I.Bystrov, A.I.Volsky, V.A.Vygodin, A.N.Glicklad, A.S.Dzasokhov, V.B.Ershov, A.N.Efimenko, M.G.Kalinin, A.E.Karpov, S.V.Kovalev, V.A.Korobchenko, Yu.K.Kurpekov, Yu.F.Malistov, T.A.Mansurov, V.N.Markov, Yu.D.Mashin, M.G.Myshkin, B.V.Nikolsky, A.V.Ochirova, E.A.Panteleyev, Yu.P.Pribegin, V.P.Provorov, V.I.Resin, V.A.Rodionov, P.V.Saprykin, R.N.Sats, V.G.Smirnov, Z.K.Tlehas, L.V.Tyagachev, V.A.Hotochkin, L.I.Shvetsova, V.S.Shkarovsky;

athletes, Olympic champions, champions of World, Europe and Russia such as - V.A.Vasin, A.N.Vorobyev, E.A.Gordeeva, O.V.Korbut, B.N.Lagutin, V.V.Ponedelnik, N.P.Simonyan, V.I.Starshinov, A.V.Firsov;

and from amongst the outstanding representatives of Russian and foreign science - twice Nobel prize winners F.Sanger, other Nobel prize winners including N.G.Basov, W.Leontief, Lord G.Porter, I.Prigogine;

members of Academies and international societies - E.Anders, G.Arrhenius, P.Auger, K.Benirschke, K. J.Breslauer, A.Vlavianos-Arvanitis, K.Heght, L.Gilman, M.Goodman, K.Denbigh, J.T.Devreese, G.C.Dijkhuis, J.B.F.N.Engberts, R.Jean, Yu-Fen Zhao, M.Zeltser, D.Ikeda,A.Isihara, J.Kelley, Kim Dae-Jung, K.Koskenalusta, J.Lepock, N.S.Law, R.Logan, M.Locquin,  S.Moorbath, K.Nickel, J.Oro, S.Singer, G.Scott, F.Scott, Ch.Tanford, P.Wadhams, R.E.Ulanowicz, S.W.Fox, H.Haken, J.Hedenstrem, L.Hayflick,  R.Hough,   M.Schidlowski, P.R.Schimmel, M.S.Chadha, J.Chela-Flores, et al.

• to promote the development of science, technology, culture, the arts and other areas of human activities on the basis of their mutual effect;
• to participate in studying and solving the problems of the humankind;
• to enhance the creative approach to science, technology, social sphere and culture;
• to enable comprehensive development of talented young people; and to participate, in accordance with established procedures, in the training and certification of scientists, teachers and lecturers;
• to enable the implementation of results of scientific and technical studies by promoting new technologies, know-how and by manufacturing pilot units;
• to carry out independent tests on the results of creative activities;
• to disseminate information on scientific and technical achievements and works of arts;
• to publish materials reflecting the Academy's activities;
• to develop international contacts, promote creative and business contacts with representatives of the scientific, cultural and public communities of other countries.

Full members of the Academy (academicians) may be individuals in science, education, the arts and sports, religious dignitaries, or businessmen who have made internationally recognized personal contributions to the development of various areas of human activities, who take part in the Academy's projects and recognize its Charter.

Corresponding members of Academy may be individuals in science, education, the arts, sports religious dignitaries, as well as businessmen who have made substantial personal contributions to the development of various areas of human activities, who take part in the Academy's projects and recognize its Charter.

Scientific, educational, industrial and arts institutions, sports societies and other organizations, whose work has received public recognition, may be also accepted into the Academy as collective members.

Members of the Academy have the right to set up, under the Academy's umbrella, institutes, creative laboratories and workshops in various fields of science, the arts and folk crafts as well as in sports and other spheres of human activities. The Presidium of the Academy adopts the Charters of such institutions, creative laboratories and workshops.

The Academy's Board for Coordination of Fundamental Research promotes fundamental work in the areas of science and the arts.

The Presidium of the Academy has the following main responsibilities:

• providing funding to individual projects of outstanding scientists and representatives of the artistic and cultural communities, primarily to members of the Academy (this support may include the publication of scientific works or textbooks; the organization of concerts or exhibitions; advertisement etc.);
• awarding prizes, medals and other awards of the Academy (prizes and medals named after S.Arrhenius, N.Bogolyubov, I.Bunin, H.Weyl, G.Gamov, H.Helmholtz, P.Gertsen, J.W.Gibbs, N.Zhukovsky, I.Kakhiani, S.Korolev, N.Leporsky, J.C.Maxwell, S.Morozov, H.Neigauz, P.Picasso, S.Prokofiev, S.Rachmaninoff, N.Sats, I.Sikorsky, F.Shalyapin, L.Euler, H.Urey.);
• awarding personal scholarships to talented students of universities, academies, institutes, music academies, lyceums, colleges and other educational institutions;
• organizing general meetings and other events within the Academy;
• providing office management for the Presidium of the Academy (maintaining offices, ensuring communications, posting letters, preparing of documents, etc.)

The scientific and cultural programs of the Academy are mainly carried out by associated institutes of the Academy and its members, in conjunction with other leading organization and firms in our country and abroad. The number of such programs corresponds approximately to the number of the Academy's institutes, over one hundred in total.

The Tomsk Institute of Ecological Problems and Health,
The Institute of Road Safety,
The Institute of Physico - Chemical Problems of Evolution
The Institute of Ecological Biophysical Chemistry,
Kabardino-Balkar Institute of Ecological Biophysical Chemistry,
The Institute of Applied Kinetics,
Kiev Macromolecular Institute,
Scientific and Technical Center under Moscow Energy Research Institute,
St.Peterburgh Center of Scientific Research and Expert Analysis,
University of Commerce and Law,
The Fund for Pharmaceutical Initiative,
Center for the Visual and Dramatic Arts,
Foreign Department
Many of these units of the Academy, which are involved in scientific and industrial work, have departments and affiliates in Russia, as well as in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States and in other countries. Many foreign organizations (in the USA, Great Britain, Germany and other countries), which are headed by members of the Academy, successfully work on joint projects with the Academy.

There are Science Councils under the Academy which consider doctoral dissertations. The Academy also has a post-graduate school.

Members of the Academy make outstanding contributions to prestigious international arts projects by performing in renowned theaters and concert halls or designing monuments and sculptures worldwide.

Members of the Academy, leading figures of the Russian Orthodox Church, also contribute to its growing reputation.

The Academy takes an active part in international women's and youth movements.

Leading world athletes represent the Academy in international contests winning Olympic, World and European medals; they participate in popular sport events and serve as role models for younger generation. Many members of the Academy head sports schools in various countries.

Every year members of the Academy publish dozens of monographs and textbooks in various languages.

Several magazines are published under the aegis of the Academy and its units. The most popular are "Clinical Medicine" and "The Ukrainian Journal of Polymers".

The outstanding activities of some members of the Academy are reflected in international reference and biographical literature, such as the "Dictionary of International Biography", "Men of Achievement", "The Who's Who of Intellectuals", "Who's Who in Music", "International Man of the Year", "Five Hundred Leaders of Influence" and other publications in Great Britain, the USA, Italy, France, Germany and Japan.

Many members of the Academy have been granted national and international honorary titles, prizes and awards.

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PRIZES AND AWARDS OF THE ACADEMY OF CREATIVE ENDEAVORS In keeping with the Charter and on the basis of the decisions made by the Presidium of the Academy, prizes and medals have been awarded to outstanding representatives of the Russian and world science, culture and the arts ( in 1989 - 1991 : Academy of Creative Endeavors, USSR ) 1990 J.W.Gibbs Prize and Medal - to Honorary Member of the Academy of Creative Endeavors, Dr. Sc. (Phys.-Math.), Professor NIKOLAY NIKOLAEVICH BOGOLYUBOV (Sen.) for a fundamental contribution to the statistical mechanics and thermodynamics.  Nikolai Bogolyubov Prize and Medal - to Dr. Sc. (Phys.-Math.), Professor YURIY SERGEYEVICH OSIPOV for a fundamental contribution to modern mechanics and the theory of management.  Iosif Kakhiani Prize and Medal - to Mr. JOHN HUNT, organizer of the first successful climbing expedition on the Mount Everest.   1991 J.W.Gibbs Prize and Medal - to Dr. Sc. (Chemistry), Professor GEORGI PAVLOVICH GLADYSHEV for creating the basis of hierarchical thermodynamics.  Nikolai Bogolyubov Prize and Medal - to Dr. Sc. (Phys.-Math.), Professor ALEXANDER MIHALOVICH KURBATOV for his analytical methods of the theory of numerous interacting particles.  Sergei Rachmaninoff Prize and Medal - to Peoples Artist, Professor IRINA KONSTANTINOVNA ARKHIPOVA for outstanding achievements in music.  Iosif Kakhiani Prize and Medal - to ALEKSEI NIKOLAEVICH MARYASHEV for achievements in archeological research in the mountains.   1992 Svante Arrhenius Prize and the Academy Medal - to Professor GUSTUF ARRHENIUS for outstanding works in the areas of solar system evolution and oceanology. Herman Helmholtz Prize and the Academy Medal - to Honorary Member of the Academy of Creative Endeavors, Professor KENNETH DENBIGH for outstanding contribution to the development of natural sciences.  Sergey Korolev Prize and the Academy Medal - to Dr. Sc. (Chemistry), Professor , BORIS PETROVICH ZHUKOV for outstanding results in the field of technical chemistry and rocket systems.  Herman Weyl Prize and the Academy Medal - to Professor ROGER JEAN for the development of mathematical models of biological systems. Igor Sikorsky Prize and the Academy Medal - to Dr. Sc. (Phys.-Math.), Professor, ALEXANDER YULEVICH ISHLINSKY for outstanding contribution to the development of means of guidance of spacecrafts and the orientation of space systems.  Nikolay Bogolyubov Prize and the Academy Medal - to Dr. Sc. (Phys.), Professor, VLADIMIR GEORGIEVICH KADISHEVSKY for his outstanding contribution to the development of the physics of elementary particles.   Nikolay Leporsky Prize and the Academy Medal - to Dr. Sc. (Medicine), Professor, FEDOR IVANOVICH KOMAROV for his substantial contribution to the development of gastroenterology.  J.W. Gibbs Prize and Medal - to Dr. Sc. (Phys.-Math.), Professor ANATOLY ALEKSEEVICH LOGUNOV for the development of quasipotential method in the quantum theory.  Harald Urey Prize and the Academy Medal - to Professor CYRIL PONNAMPERUMA for outstanding works in the field of chemical evolution and the origin of life.  Leonard Euler Prize and Medal - to Dr. Sc. (Phys.-Math.), Professor VIKTOR ANTONOVICH SADOVNICHIY for his outstanding contribution to the development of contemporary mathematical analysis.  Fyodor Shalyapin Prize and the Academy Medal - to Peoples Artist, Professor YEUGENY YEUGENEVICH NESTERENKO for outstanding achievement in performing arts.  Henry Neigauz Prize and the Academy Medal - to Peoples Artist, Professor SVYATOSLAV TEOFILOVICH RICHTER for outstanding achievements in the performing arts.  Sergey Prokofiev Prize and the Academy Medal - to Peoples Artist, Professor NATALYA ILYNICHNA SATS for her outstanding achievements in introducing children to music and theatre appreciation.  Sergey Rachmaninoff Prize and Medal - to Professor GEORGI VASILEVICH SVIRIDOV for his outstanding contribution to the world musical culture.  Pablo Picasso Prize and the Academy Medal - to Peoples Artist Professor ZURAB KONSTANTINOVICH TSERETELY for his monument "Good Conquers evil" built in front of the UN building in New York.  Savva Morozov Prize and the Academy Medal - to Mr. ARKADY IVANOVICH VOLSKY for his efforts in cultural revival and development.   1993 Nikolai Zhukovsky Prize and the Academy Medal - to Dr. Sc. (Phys.-Math.), Professor LEONID IVANOVICH SEDOV for his outstanding contribution to the development of mechanics. J.W.Gibbs Prize and Medal - to Dr. Sc. (Technical), Professor VYACHESLAV VLADIMIROVICH SYCHEV for his outstanding contribution to the field of thermodynamics of complex systems, thermodynamics of bi-phase media and differential equations of thermodynamics.  Sergey Rachmaninoff Prize and Medal - to Peoples Artist, Professor YEUGENY FEDOROVICH SVETLANOV for his outstanding achievement in world music culture.   1994 Georgi Gamov Prize and the Academy Medal - to Dr. Sc. (Phys.-Math.), Professor VICTOR AMAZASPOVICH AMBARTSUMYAN for outstanding contributions to the development of astrophysics. Pyotr Gertsen Prize and the Academy Medal - to Dr. Sc. (Medicine), Professor MIHAIL ISRAELOVICH PERELMAN for his outstanding work in the field of thoracic surgery.  Sergey Rachmaninoff Prize and Medal - to Peoples Artist Professor VLADIMIR IVANOVICH FEDOSEEV for outstanding achievements in the performing arts.   1995 J.C.Maxwell Prize and the Academy Medal - to Professor ABDUS SALAM for his outstanding contribution to the development of theoretical physics.  Natalia Sats Prize and the Academy Medal - to Peoples Artist SHIRVANI RAMAZANOVICH CHALAEV for his outstanding creative efforts in the field of music for children and the youth.   1996 P.J.Flory Prize and the Academy Medal - to Professor YURI S. LIPATOV for his outstanding contribution to the development of physical chemistry of polymers. 1997 Lev Gumilev Prize and the Academy Medal -  Dr. Sc. (Politics) TAIR AIMUKHAMETOVICH MANSUROV for the monograph "Kazakhstan and Russia: Sovereignties, Integration, Experience of Strategic Partnership." Vasilii Bazhenov Prize and Academy Medal - Dr. Sc. (technic), Professor NIKOLAY VLADIMIROVICH OBOLENSKIY for his outstanding contribution to the architectural science, monographs and textbooks in the field of architectural physicists. 1998 Ivan Pavlov Prize and the Academy Medal - Dr. Sc. (Medicine), Professor KONSTANTIN VICTOROVICH SUDAKOV for his outstanding contribution to the development of physiology.