Legal Form of the Academy
The Interdisciplinary Academy of System Studies (IASS) is a scientific and practical Academy of Russia organized as an «Autonomous Non-Profit Organization», State Registration Certificate No. 1257700422583 dated 24.09.2025. Under the name «International Academy of System Studies (IASS)» and organized as a «Non-Profit Partnership», it operated from 28.02.2000 to 11.11.2024 under State Registration Certificate 059.319. Pursuant to Federal Law No. 7-FZ of 12 January 1966 (as amended on 30 December 2013), the non-profit partnership form was removed from Federal Law No. 7-FZ «On Non-Profit Organizations» effective 1 September 2014. Organizations previously registered as non-profit partnerships were required to bring their founding documents into compliance with the current legislation. Accordingly, NP «IASS» updated its founding documents and became ANO «IASS», as confirmed by the documents of ANO IASS registration.
The Academy’s activity prior to 2025, when it held the status of an International Academy, is described in the IASS color booklet.
Purpose, Subject and Activities of the Academy
The purpose of the Academy is to consolidate and coordinate the efforts of scientists and specialists in developing, advancing and improving a comprehensive systems approach to solving the pressing problems of science and technology today, with particular attention to such urgent issues as systems analysis of natural and technological processes, sustainable development, the transition to renewable energy and material resources, and the creation of environmentally clean technologies and resource-saving, waste-free production.
The subject of the Academy’s activity is to unite and consolidate society’s intellectual potential in the development and advancement of systems research in science, technology, economics, ecology, sociology, computer science and other fields.
Activities of the Academy:
1. Identifying, supporting and publicly recognizing the merits of individuals in science, engineering and invention, including through the presentation of established award diplomas (without monetary compensation). The specific nomination procedure, selection criteria, diploma template and award procedure are approved by a separate Regulation on Academy Awards, adopted by the Academy’s Presidium;
2. Establishing and organizing the work of the Academy’s representative offices, branches and divisions, qualification and expert commissions, scientific-practical councils, and trusteeship courses to improve the efficiency of work in the field of systems research and to raise the scientific and methodological level and further training of specialists in new scientific fields;
3. The Academy’s publishing activity is expressed in the publication of the results of scientists’ and specialists’ work in the periodical «Bulletin of the Academy», registered in the RSCI (Russian Science Citation Index) of the eLIBRARY.RU information resource. See the rules for authors of the Bulletin of the Academy. The titles and details of articles published by IASS members from 2020 to 2025 in the «Bulletin of the Academy» under the «Systems Analysis of Natural and Technological Processes» research area are presented in the list of Bulletin of the Academy articles.
Founder of the Academy
The founder of the Academy is Igor Nikolaevich Dorokhov – Doctor of Technical Sciences (1981), professor at the Department of Cybernetics of Chemical Engineering Processes at the D.I. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, where he has worked from 1964 to the present day. He graduated from the N.E. Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School (1964) and the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University (1973). He is the founder of the research field of systems analysis of natural and technological processes. He was awarded the D.I. Mendeleev Prize of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1978 for a series of monographs and 120 articles in the Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences in this research field. He is the author of more than 500 scientific works, including 22 monographs and 5 textbooks. He has supervised 70 candidates of science and 25 doctors of science. He is an Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, and served as President of the International Academy of System Studies (IASS) from 2000 to 2024.
Governing Bodies of the Academy
The Academy’s supreme governing body is its Founder, who is also the sole executive body – the Academy’s General Director.
Registered Address
121352, Moscow, Slavyansky Boulevard 5, bldg. 1, office 201, Russia
Phone: +7 (910) 441-25-67
E-mail: indorokhov@yandex.ru
THOSE WHO STOOD AT THE ORIGINS OF THE ACADEMY
The IASS scientific school traces its origin to 1960 – the founding of the world’s first Department of Cybernetics of Chemical Engineering Processes, on the initiative of Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor V.V. Kafarov.
One of the ongoing forms of IASS activity is the organization of regional and international conferences and symposiums on a broad range of systems research topics across various fields of knowledge. Examples include the annual (since 2000) participation of IASS members in the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Divnomorskoye, Gelendzhik; and the organization of the 3rd International Conference on Information Technology and Telecommunications (October 2007, Ganja, Azerbaijan), among others. IASS included 27 scientific sections and 19 regional centers – see the list of IASS sections and regional centers. In 2010, a jubilee gathering of IASS members was held to mark the Academy’s 10th anniversary – see the photos from the IASS jubilee gathering.
Initiators of the founding of IASS. Left to right: IASS academicians Dr. Sc. (Eng.), Prof. V.Ya. Rotach, Dr. Sc. (Eng.), Prof. Yu.A. Komissarov, Dr. Sc. (Eng.), Prof. D.P. Vent, Dr. Sc. (Eng.), Prof. V.M. Volodin, Dr. Sc. (Eng.), Prof. I.N. Dorokhov, Dr. Sc. (Eng.), Prof. A.E. Sofiev, Dr. Sc. (Eng.), Prof. Yu.A. Ivashkin.
IASS ACTIVITIES IN VIETNAM
ANO IASS’s partner in Hanoi is the «Vietnamese Branch of the International Academy of System Studies» (VB IASS). The General Director of VB IASS is Vietnamese citizen Le Vinh Phuc. The science assistant is a graduate of the D.I. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Dr. Sc. (Eng.), Professor Nguyen Xuan Nguyen.
Nguyen Xuan Nguyen graduated from the D.I. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia with a degree in «Cybernetics of Chemical Engineering Processes». He earned his candidate and doctoral degrees in this field. He is General Director of the Chemical Technology Production Union of the National Center for Natural Sciences and Technology of Vietnam and of the National Chemical Technology Association of Vietnam. He is the author of a number of monographs and more than 100 articles in the field of systems analysis and cybernetics of technological processes.
Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao – an initiator of IASS, member of the board of directors of the Russian-Vietnamese company «SOVICO». She graduated from the G.V. Plekhanov Russian University of Economics with a degree in «World Economy», defended a dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences, and holds a Candidate of Technical Sciences degree defended at the Dissertation Council of the D.I. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. The photo was taken at the SOVICO Corporation on the day IASS President I.N. Dorokhov was awarded the Order of Friendship of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Congress of the IASS initiators at the Moscow office of «SOVICO» on 13.01.2000, Moscow, 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya St., 30. In the center – member of the board of directors of SOVICO Corporation, Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao.
IASS’s Vietnamese partner – the Vietnamese Research and Technology Center (TROPCENTRE, Hanoi). Left to right: A.N. Kuznetsov – scientific secretary, Candidate of Biological Sciences; Tran Xuan Thu – Director, Professor, IASS academician, General of the Vietnamese Army; V.S. Rumak – Director on the Russian side, Professor, Dr. Sc. (Med.); I.N. Dorokhov, IASS President, Professor, Dr. Sc. (Eng.); L.S. Gordeev – Head of the Department of Cybernetics of Chemical Engineering Processes at the D.I. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Professor, Dr. Sc. (Eng.); Do Van Kham – Deputy Director of TROPCENTRE, Professor, Dr. Sc. (Biol.).
THE D.I. MENDELEEV CHARITY PROJECT
«OUTSTANDING FIGURES OF RUSSIA»
By resolution of the Presidium of NP «IASS», Minutes No. 9 dated 12 May 2005, the D.I. Mendeleev Charity Project «Outstanding Figures of Russia» was approved. This project continues to operate by decision of the Presidium of ANO «IASS» (Minutes No. 5 dated 24.10.2025).
EXCERPT FROM THE GENERAL PROVISIONS OF THE D.I. MENDELEEV CHARITY PROJECT
«OUTSTANDING FIGURES OF RUSSIA»
The main purpose of the project, under the motto «The scientific sowing will rise for the people’s harvest» (D.I. Mendeleev) is to carry out charitable activities aimed at mutual assistance, cooperation and the consolidation of efforts among scientists, engineers and inventors in strengthening the scientific, technical and economic potential of our homeland.
The project’s activities include: charitable activity in the form of moral and material support for inventors, engineers and scientists who have made a significant contribution to strengthening the power and international standing of Russia; participation in nominating, recommending and sponsoring outstanding figures of Russia for state and named public awards, for honorary diplomas, and for inclusion in domestic and foreign encyclopedias, reference books and other publications about outstanding figures of Russia; and promotional and publishing activity in disseminating informational materials about outstanding figures of Russia and the positive experience of their work.