Question: What was the previous name of the Russian academy of Sciences based in the country with the Black Sea as a border to the West ?

text: Russian Academy of Sciences
History -- In the Soviet Union
Shortly after the October Revolution , in December 1917 , Sergey Fedorovich Oldenburg , a leading ethnographer and political activist in the Kadet party , met with Vladimir Lenin to discuss the future of the Academy . They agreed that the expertise of the Academy would be applied to addressing questions of state construction , while in return the Soviet government would give the Academy financial and political support . The most important activities of the Academy in the 1920s included an investigation of the large Kursk Magnetic Anomaly , of the minerals in the Kola Peninsula , and participation in the GOELRO plan targeted electrification of the whole country . In these years , many research institutions were established , and the number of scientists became four times larger than in 1917 . In 1925 the Soviet government recognized the Russian Academy of Sciences as the `` highest all-Union scientific institution '' and renamed it the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . In 1934 , the Academy headquarters moved from Leningrad to the capital , Moscow . The Stalin years are marked with a rapid industrialisation of the Soviet Union for which a great deal of research , mainly in the technical fields , has been done . However , on the other hand , in these very times , many scientists underwent repressions from ideological reasons . In the years of the Second World War , the Soviet Academy of Sciences made a big contribution to a development of modern weapons – tanks ( new series of T-34 ) , airplanes , degaussing the ships ( for protection against the naval mines ) etc . – and therefore to victory of the USSR over the Nazi Germany . During and after the war , the Academy was involved in the Soviet atomic bomb project ; due to its success and other achievements in military techniques , the USSR became one of the superpowers in the Cold War era . At the end of the 1940s , the Academy consisted of eight divisions ( Physico-Mathematical Science , Chemical Sciences , Geological-Geographical Sciences , Biological Science , Technical Science , History and Philosophy , Economics and Law , Literature and Languages ) ; three committees ( one for coordinating the scientific work of the Academies of the Republics , one for scientific and technical propaganda , and one for editorial and publications ) , two commissions ( for publishing popular scientific literature , and for museums and archives ) , a laboratory for scientific photography and cinematography and Academy of Science Press departments external to the divisions . [ 18 ] The Academy of Sciences of the USSR helped to establish national Academies of Sciences in all Soviet republics ( with the exception of the Russian SFSR ) , in many cases delegating prominent scientists to live and work in other republics . In the case of the Ukraine , its academy was formed by the local Ukrainian scientists and prior to occupation of the Ukrainian People 's Republic by Bolsheviks . These academies were :
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) Rossíiskaya akadémiya naúk) consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals. Headquartered in Moscow, the Academy (RAS) is considered a civil, self-governed, non-commercial organization chartered by the Government of Russia. It combines the members of RAS (see below) and scientists employed by institutions. Near the central academy building there is a monument to Yuri Gagarin in the square bearing his name. As of November 2017, the Academy included 1008 institutions and other units; in total about 125,000 people were employed of whom 47,000 were scientific researchers.
Republic Local Name Established successor
Ukrainian SSR Академія наук Української РСР 1918 National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Byelorussian SSR Акадэмія Навукаў Беларускай ССР 1929 National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Uzbek SSR Ўзбекистон ССР Фанлар академияси 1943 Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan
Kazakh SSR Қазақ ССР Ғылым Академиясы 1946 National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Georgian SSR საქართველოს სსრ მეცნიერებათა აკადემია 1941 Georgian Academy of Sciences
Azerbaijan SSR Азәрбајҹан ССР Елмләр Академијасы 1945 National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan
Lithuanian SSR Lietuvos TSR Mokslų akademija 1941 Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
Moldavian SSR Академия де Штиинце а РСС Молдовенешть 1946 Academy of Sciences of Moldova
Latvian SSR Latvijas PSR Zinātņu akadēmija 1946 Latvian Academy of Sciences
Kirghiz SSR Кыргыз ССР Илимдер академиясы 1954 National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic
Tajik SSR Академияи илмҳои ҶШС Тоҷикистон 1953 Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan
Armenian SSR Հայկական ՍՍՀ գիտությունների ակադեմիա 1943 National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
Turkmen SSR Түркменистан ССР Ылымлар Академиясы 1951 Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan
Estonian SSR Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia 1946 Estonian Academy of Sciences