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BARMIN, VLADIMIR PAVLOVICH (Mechanical Engineer) 



V. P. Barmin was born March 17, 1909. After graduating 

 from Moscow Technological College in 1930, he worked at the 

 plant "Compressor" where in 1940-1946 he was chief designer. 

 Beginning in 1931, he also taught at Moscow Technological 

 College. He has been a member of the Communist Party of the 

 Soviet Union since 1944. In 1958 Barmin was elected a Corre- 

 sponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. In 1943 

 he received a Stalin Prize. 



Barmin has been interested in mechanics, in particular con- 

 struction of compressors. 

 Bibliography: 



and others . Cooling Machines and Apparatus. Moscow: 



1946. 

 Office: Moscow Technological College 



Moscow, USSR 



BASHKIROV, ANDREI NIKOLAEVICH (Chemist) 



A. N. Bashkirov was born December 22, 1903. In 1929 he 

 graduated from the Moscow Chemico -Technological Institute. 

 From 1934 to 1938, he worked at the All-Union Scientific Re- 

 search Institute of Gas and Artificial Liquid Fuel and at its 

 Siberian branch (Novosibirsk). He was at the U.S.S.R. Academy 

 of Sciences Institute of Mineral Fuels from 1939 until 1947 

 when he began work at the Institute of Petroleum of the U.S.S.R. 

 Academy of Sciences. In 1943, Bashkirov became Chairman of 

 a Department at the Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Tech- 

 nology. He has been since 1958 a Corresponding Member of the 

 U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 



Bashkirov worked on desulfurization of gases and petroleum 

 products and on thermal processing of coal. His main works 

 are devoted to catalytic synthesis of hydrocarbons, alcohols, 

 and amines from oxides of carbon and hydrogen; he investigated 

 the direct oxidation of hydrocarbons, and he worked out an 

 industrial process for higher aliphatic alcohols by direct oxi- 

 dation of hydrocarbons. 

 Bibliography: 



Synthesis of higher alcohols of the aliphatic series by the 

 method of direct oxidation of paraffin hydrocarbons. Chemi- 

 cal Science and Industry, 1956, 1, #3. 



and Yu. B. Kagan, L. I. Zvezdkina . Synthesis of higher ali- 

 phatic alcohols from CO and H2. Doklady Akad. Nauk 

 S.S.S.R., 1956, 109, #3. 



