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Abbreviations

IAN :

Izvestia Akad. Nauk, ser. 5 (up to 1906 inclusive) or 6 (from 1907). French subtitle: Bull. Acad. Sci. Up to 1917 the Akademia was called Petersburg Academy, and, from 1917 to 1925, Russian Academy

JMNP :

Zhurnal Ministerstva narodnogo prosveshchenia (J. Ministry people's educ.)

Kasan Bull. :

Izvestia phys.-math. Obschchestva Kasan Univ. (French subtitle: Bull. Soc. phys.-math. Kasan), ser. 2

Kharkow Comm. :

Soobshchenia Kharkow math. obshchestva (French subtitle: Communications Soc. math. Kharkow), ser. 2

MS :

Matematichesky zbornik

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