SEMINAR      Monday, 14 June 2004 - h. 15:00  Aula Seminari     A.G. Revenko (Irkutsk) X-RAY  FLUORESCENCE  ANALYSIS  IN  RUSSIA: ITS PRESENT AND PERSPECTIVE Abstract The report gives consideration to the contribution of the scientists from Russia to the de-velopment of XRF analysis during the period from 1990 to nowadays. The state of XRF during the earlier period was discussed in the reviews. Presented in detail are only the most important advances connected to the special features of XRF method. The reviews and the monographs, published during this period, the proceedings of the Conferences on XRF prob-lems, held in Russia, the defended dissertations are separately discussed. The statistical analysis of the publications on XRF is presented (the distribution in the Russian and foreign journals.