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The structure and evolution of the passive continental margins of the Arctic Ocean are considered on the example of the South Kara Basin. Its development is associated with the evolution of the West Siberian Plate and the formation of the Arctic Ocean. Until the Late Cretaceous, the South Kara Basin was the north margin of the West Siberian Plate, whose formation is related to the Permian-Triassic processes of riftogenesis accompanied by the eruptions of traps. In the Mesozoic, due to the opening of the Arctic Ocean, the South Kara basin became a part of the continental margin, where the accumulation of marine sandy-clayey rocks continued. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The northern part of Sakhalin Island is an area of recent intensive tectonic movements and hydrothermal processes, as well as a place of accumulation of useful minerals. The deep structure of the lithosphere beneath the region of the Neftegorsk earthquake of May 27, 1995 in North Sakhalin, which killed residents and caused significant destruction, is examined in this paper. Our geodynamic model shows that North Sakhalin consists of the North Sakhalin Basin, Deryugin Basin and an ophiolite complex located between them. The Deryugin Basin was formed in place of an ancient deep trench after subducting the Okhotsk Sea Plate under Sakhalin in the Late Cretaceous–Paleogene. The North Sakhalin Basin was formed on the side of the back-arc basin at that time. The ophiolite complex is fixed in the position of ancient subduction zone that was active in the Late Cretaceous–Paleogene. Approximately in the Miocene, the subduction of the Okhotsk lithosphere apparently ceased. The remains of the subduction zone in the form of an ophiolite complex have been identified from geological and geophysical data. On the surface, the subduction zone is manifested as deep faults stretched along Sakhalin. It is probable that the Neftegorsk earthquake was a result of activation of this ancient subduction zone. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Describes the `Concise Dictionary of Business Logistics' (CDBL) published in Russia in 1995. Terminology systematization and its principles; Sources of the CDBL; Russian language logistics word stock; Making of the CDBL and the layout of entries; Axiomatic and non-axiomatic approach to definitions of fundamental concepts of logistics.

Presents a history of logistical planning in the USSR and Russia from 1920-1992. Describes in detail the functions of the centralized distribution system created in the course of Brezhnev-Kosygin reforms (1965) and dismantled in 1991; a chronology of changes in distribution of producer goods in 1991-1992 and explains why the newest are less effective than the dismantled distribution systems. Analyses some of the most important aspects of the Federal purchasing system which is being created in Russia (since October 1992). The core of this system will be two joint-stock purchasing companies (Roskontrakt and Roskhlebo-produkt) established as state-owned agencies. The Concise Dictionary of Business Logistics(out of print in Moscow in 1994) is presented - the first Russian-language logistical glossary, in which 1,000 terms are defined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]