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At the Institute of Electromechanics of the Academy of Sci- 

 ences of the U.S.S.R., located in laboratories in a private resi- 

 dence on the Palace Embankment of the Neva [Leningrad], 

 Kostenko works on the combined operation of AC and DC trans- 

 mission lines and the automatic regulation of superpower gener- 

 ators. The laboratories contain models of the Stalingrad 

 power stations and of the future Volga, Krasnoyar, Bukhtarin, 

 and Bratskaya plants. Stalingrad will transmit AC and DC 

 simultaneously; AC to Moscow and DC to the Don Basin. 

 The modelling methods are used there to work out the electrifi- 

 cation of the main Russian railroad lines under the Seven Year 

 Plan. Kostenko is working on problems of the utilization of 

 alternating current electric traction for this purpose. 



Kostenko' s basic works are concerned with the theory of 

 electrical machines and methods for their experimental study 

 and planning. He gave a theory of transformers, polyphase 

 asynchronous and commutating machines; worked out an origi- 

 nal scheme of commutative generators for alternating current. 

 He has been concerned with electric traction using alternating 

 current, electrodynamic modelling of energy systems in con- 

 nection with the stability and reliability of the operation of 

 distant electric transmission, and with the rectification of alter- 

 nating current. He has written a monograph on the universal 

 transformer. In all, he has written over 100 scientific works, 

 which have become indispensable manuals for Soviet engineers, 

 especially his Commutators, printed a quarter of a century ago. 

 As of 1961, Kostenko was a Member of the Presidium of the 

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

 Bibliography: 



Alternating Current Commutator Machines, Part 1. Lenin- 

 grad: 1933. 



Electric Machines (part 1-2). Moscow-Leningrad: 1944-49. 

 and others. Electromagnetic Processes in Systems with 

 Powerful Rectifiers. Moscow-Leningrad: 1946. 

 and E. D. Treivish . Transformer and Electric Machine De- 

 signing in Experimental Research in Stabilizing Parallel 

 Work of Electric Plants. Trudy Lenin, politekh. inst., 1946, 

 #1. 



Electrodynamic model for research in stability. Electricity, 

 1950, #9. 



Designing electrical equipment in irradiation of parallel sta- 

 bility of energy systems for long-distance transmission. 

 Izvest. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Otdel. Tekh. Nauk, 1953, #12. 



