What is 'Research And Development - R&D' Research and development (R&D) refers to the investigative activities a business conducts to improve existing products and procedures or to lead to the development of new products and procedures. Consumer goods companies across all sectors and industries utilize R&D to improve on product lines, and corporations experience growth through these improvements and through the development of new goods and services.
Verkhoyansk has a dry climate with little rainfall or snowfall: the average annual precipitation is 180 millimeters (7.1 in). Although no month can be described as truly wet, there are strong seasonal differences in precipitation, with the summer being much wetter than the winter.
Ulyanovsk overview. Ulyanovsk is a city in Russia, an administrative center of Ulyanovsk region (province). The city is standing on Privolzhskaya hill, on the banks of the rivers Volga (Kuybyshev water reservoir) and Sviyaga where they come closest to each other. It is located about 890 km to the east of Moscow. The climate is of moderate-continental type, a bit drier than in central Russia. Ulyanovsk has the population of 639,000 (2012), land area - 623 sq. km. The phone code is +7 8422; postal codes are 432000-432xxx.