Wooden architecture preservation to be discussed at conf.

PETROZAVODSK, June 22 (Itar-Tass) - An international conference on the
theme of "Wooden Architecture as Phenomenon of National Culture" opens
here on Tuesday.
Galina Brun, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Karelia, has told
Itar-Tass that participants in the conference from Russia, Britain, Spain,
Italy, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Turkey, and Japan will discuss
matters concerning the history of wooden architecture, as well as the
preservation and development of rural wooden architecture, and the use of
its traditions in present-day construction.
The Minister pointed out, "It is not by chance that Karelia has been
chosen as the venue for the conference, for it affords unique wooden
architecture landmarks of northern Russia not only on the world-known
island of Kizhi in Lake Onega, the major North-West open-air museum, but
also those in remote areas of the republic".
The conference will continue until June 25. A tour of the Kizhi
reserve is a must on the conference programme.

.Building crane collapses, killing three workers.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, June 22 (Itar-Tass) - A building tower crane
collapsed here on Tuesday when it was being dismantled, killing three
building company workers and injuring two -- a woman crane operator, and a
man, an official at the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (RME) department
for the Kamchatka Territory has told Itar-Tass.
The crane operator has been hospitalized with various injuries while
the injured man is in a state of shock.
A message about the incident reached rescuers at 10:26, local time.
The RME official specified that the builders were dismantling the tower
crane at the construction site of a nine-storey building in the city's
North-East neighbourhood following the completion of the main building
operations. During the dismantling operation, the crane's hydraulic
mechanisms malfunctioned and the crane collapsed. Nearby buildings were
not damaged.

.Int'l conference on cognitive science opens in Tomsk Tue.

TOMSK, June 22 (Itar-Tass) - The processes of thinking, cognition, and
brain functioning will be the focus of attention at the 4th international
conference on learning science, opening here on Tuesday.
The conference is held by Tomsk State University, the Interegional
cognitive research association, the Institute of Psychology of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, and the Kurchatov Institute research center with the
coordinating role of the Center for the development of interpersonal
communications.
Organizers say the purpose of the conference is to create a forum for
representatives of a multitude of sciences that study cognition and its
means -- the intellect, mentality, perception, language, and brain
mechanisms of cognition. This is why the conference will be attended by
psychologists, linguists, neurophysiologists, philosophers,
anthropologists, and other specialists.
The participation of James McClelland and Roger Schank (USA), the
founders of modern approaches to thinking simulation, as well as of
Swedish professor Henryk Ersson and German researcher Leonard Schilbach,
leading specialists in the field of study of attention and perception,
adds weight to the conference.

.Ammonia leak in ship's branch pipe plugged in Vladivostok.

VLADIVOSTOK, June 22 (Itar-Tass) - Rescuers from the Vladivostok
city-based search and rescue service have plugged a leak of ammonia aboard
the Piltun motorship at the port of Vladivostok on Tuesday.
No one was hurt, and there is no hazard to the population and the
workers of the ship-repairing plant, an official in the press service of
the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (RME) department for the Primorsky
(maritime) Territory has told Itar-Tass.
According to rescuers, the leak occurred in a branch pipe of the
ship's cooling system.
The incident occurred on Tuesday morning on board the ship that is
moored at the pier of the Pervomaisky (First of May) ship-repairing plant.
The ship's crew and the workers of the plant detected a strong smell
of ammonia and called in rescuers.
Members of the Territorial and city search and rescue services, as
well as fire-fighting teams -- 38 men, all in all -- and eleven units of
machinery arrived at the scene and repaired the leak.
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