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an assistant, senior laboratory technician, postgraduate, and 

 from 1942 to 1949 was engaged in scientific and pedagogical 

 work at the Ural Polytechnical Institute. In 1949 he became 

 chairman of the department of Plastic Treatment of Metals at 

 the M. I. Kalinin Leningrad Polytechnical Institute, where he 

 was from 1954-56 deputy Director, and then became Director of 

 this Institute. In 1948, he was granted the degree Doctor of 

 Technical Sciences, and the rank of professor in 1950. Since 

 1940, he has been a member of the Communist Party of the 

 Soviet Union. He was elected, in 1960, a Corresponding Mem- 

 ber of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 



Smirnov's primary scientific activity deals with pressure 

 treatment of metals (transverse spiral metal rolling, longitudi- 

 nal periodic rolling, metal punching and pressing). 



In June 1958, Smirnov visited the United States to attend the 

 Gordon Research Conferences on Polymer Research at New 

 London, New Hampshire. 

 Bibliography: 



Transverse Metal Rolling. Moscow: 1948. 



Calibration of Rollers by Coordinative Zones. Moscow: 



1953. 



Transverse Rolling and Machine Building. Moscow: 1957. 



Longitudinal Periodic Rolling. Moscow: 1962. 



Fundamentals in the theory of metal rolling. Chps. 1-3, 



Metal Rolling Industry, Moscow, 1962. 

 Office: M. I. Kalin Leningrad Polytechnical Institute 



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SOBOLEV, SERGEI LVQVICH (Mathematician and Specialist in 

 Mechanics) 

 S. L. Sobolev was born October 6, 1908 in Leningrad. He 

 graduated from Leningrad University in 1929 and also holds the 

 degree of Doctor of Physical-Mathematical Sciences from 

 there. He then worked in the Seismological Institute of the 

 U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. In 1932 he began working at the 

 Mathematics Institute of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and 

 in 1935 he became professor at Moscow University. Sobolev 

 has been a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 

 since 1940. He was elected a Corresponding Member of the 

 U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences in 1933 and in 1939 an Academici- 

 an. In 1941 he was awarded a Stalin Prize. 



