283 PETROV 



Office: Chemistry Department 



Moscow Chemico-Technological Institute 

 Moscow, USSR 



PETROV, ALEKSANDR PETRQVICH (Railroad Transportation 

 Engineer) 



A. P. Petrov was born September 1, 1910. He graduated in 

 1934 from the Moscow Institute of Transportation Engineers. 

 From 1935 to 1940 he worked at the Scientific Research Insti- 

 tute of Railroad Transportation. In 1936 he formed the teach- 

 ing staff of the Moscow Institute of Transportation Engineers. 

 He worked in the Ministry of Transportation in 1941-1946 and 

 in 1949 began working at the Ail Union Scientific Research 

 Institute of Railroad Transportation. He has been a member of 

 the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1945. In 1953 

 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Acade- 

 my of Sciences. 



The work of Petrov is in national use of railroads, particu- 

 larly the organization of the car turnover. He worked out a 

 method of calculating plans for formation of trains. He formu- 

 lated a theory of schedules, and traffic carrying capacity of 

 railroads. 

 Bibliography: 



Plan on Formation of Trains. Experiment, Theory, Method- 

 ology of Calculation. Moscow: 1950. 



Investigation of a Two -Track Schedule in Connection with the 

 Scheduling of Passenger Trains. Moscow: 1941. 

 Organization of Traffic in Railroad Transport. Moscow: 

 1952. 

 Office: All Union Scientific Research Institute of Railroad 



Transportation 

 Moscow, USSR 

 Residence: Leningradskii Prospekt, 28 



Moscow, USSR 

 Telephone: D3 60 00, Ext. 420 



PETROV, BORIS NIKOLAEVICH (Automation Specialist) 



B. N. Petrov was born March 11, 1913. In 1939 he graduated 

 from Moscow Institute of Energetics and began working at the 

 Institute of Automation and Remote Control of the U.S.S.R. 

 Academy of Sciences. He has taught at Moscow Aviation Insti- 

 tute, starting in 1944, and in 1948 became a professor. He was 

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

 Sciences in 1953, and in 1960 an Academician. 



