5 ALEKSEEV 



ALEKSANDRQV, BORIS KAPITONOVICH (Hydraulic Engineer) 

 B. K. Aleksandrov was born August 6, 1889. He graduated 

 from the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute in 1917. He helped 

 design the "Moscow" canal and plan the building of the Rybinsk 

 and Uglich Hydroelectric Plants. In 1939 he was head and chief 

 engineer of the "Greater Volga" Directorate of the State Trust 

 for the Planning of Hydroelectric Power Plants and Centers. 

 In 1918 he taught at a number of secondary and advanced 

 schools. In 1946 he began teaching at the Moscow Institute of 

 Energetics, where he became a professor in 1948. In 1953 he 

 became a Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of 

 Sciences. 



The works of Aleksandrov deal with utilizing the energy of 

 large plain rivers of the European part of the U.S.S.R. (Volga, 

 Oka), the transfer of the flow of Northern rivers of Pechora 

 and Onega into the Volga and ICama, and also with construction 

 of buildings for hydroelectric buildings and navigable locks. He 

 is the author of the project of the Kama Hydroelectric Power 

 Station and dam and of the Kama multi- chambered navigable 

 lock with utilization of an electric locomotive. 

 Office: Moscow Institute of Energetics 



Moscow, USSR 

 Residence: Chistoprudn. bul. 11 



Moscow, USSR 

 Telephone: B3 10 51 



ALEKSEEV, ALEKSANDR EMELYANOVICH (Electronic 

 Engineer) 



A. E. Alekseev was born November 27, 1891. In 1925, he 

 graduated from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute. From 

 1908 to 1919, he was employed at an electric plant in Peters- 

 burg (Leningrad). Since 1936, he has been professor at the 

 Leningrad Institute of Railroad Engineers. In 1953, he began 

 working at the U.S.S.R. Academy. of Sciences Institute of 

 Electromechanics. He has been awarded a medal, the Order of 

 Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. In 1953 he 

 became a Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Alekseev has worked in the field of electric machines. He 

 worked out the theory and methods of ventilation and heat calcu- 

 lation of electric machines. Under his direction the first Soviet 

 electric traction machines, turbo and hydro -generators were 

 built. He is concerned with electric traction on direct and 



