The Institute of Automation and Control Processes, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was established in 1971, May 20 on the basis of a Department of Technical Cybernetics, Far Eastern Division, Siberian Branch, Academy of Sciences, USSR (leader — D.Sci.(Tech.), Prof. Kochubievsky I.D.) and Incorporated Computer Center FEPI-FESU-FED SB AS USSR (leader — D.Sci.(Tech.) Zdor V.V.).

Now institute has 331 members of the staff including 142 researches (1 academician of RAS, 2 corresponding members of RAS, 33 doctors and 63 kandidates of sciences), 5 men are awarded with a honourable rank "Honoured Scientist of Russian Federation". The Institute has 4 educational departments run jointly with the universities of the country, postgraduate courses, and 3 Specialized Learned Councils to confer dissertations in 7 specializations.

Today the main attention is given to the following scientific directions:

1. Mathematical problems of Continuum Mechanics and control processes.
2. Theoretical and applied problems of technologies software.
3. Physics of submonolayer microstructures on silicon. Design of the new semiconductor devices and materials on a basis of superhigh-vacuum technologies.

• Institute for Automation and Control Processes, Far Eastern Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR