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Administrative Affiliation: Presidium of the Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R. 
La (1960) 
Selected Staff Members: -- 
Description: 
GIPRONII was established by the Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R., in 
1953 to plan and design new research centers for the Academy of Sciences, 
U.S.S.R., and the Academies of the Union Republics. 
Research is conducted on construction materials and technology. 
The Institute has a Leningrad branch and a Central Asian branch in 
Tashkent. Chief Engineer of the Central-Asian Branch is I. Shakhsuvarov. 
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Name: All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information 
(Vsesoyuznyy institut nauchnoy i tekhnicheskoy informatsii--VINITT) 
Address: Moscow, Baltiyskaya ulitsa, 14 
Director: A. I. Mikhaylov, Professor (1961) 
Deputy Director: A. A. Fomin (1961) 
Administrative Affiliation: State Committee of the Council of Ministers, 
U.S.S.R., on Coordination of Scientific 
Research and Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R. 
(1961) 
Selected Staff Members: 
A. i. Chexrnyy 
Le I. Gutenmakher, Professor, Head of Laboratory for Electro- 
modeling 
S. M. Lisichkin, Doctor 
I. A. Lunacharskaya 
I. I. Nikolayev, Corresponding Academician (U.S.S.R.) 
B. M. Rakov, Head of Laboratory of Mechanization and Automation 
of the Information Service 
Description: 
VINITI is the central translating, abstracting, and disseminating 
organ for scientific and technical information in the U.S.S.R. It publishes 
the abstract journal, Referativnyy Zhurnal, which comes out in 123 editions, 
each devoted to particular branches of the physical and mathematical, 
chemical, geological, biological, technical, and economic sciences. Also, 
