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- Bogoroditskaya 
Dvali 
S. Eventov 
e Kolesnik 
Kotina 
Maymin 
Nevolin 
. Sokolov, Corresponding Academician (U.S.S.R. ) 
Uspenskiy 
. Vassoyevich 
NBS S&S 
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Drang nrne 
Description: 
This institute is preoccupied mainly with the geology and petrology 
of the Volga-Ural region, including stratigraphy and correlation of volcanic 
formations. Other important subjects investigated are the geochemistry and 
biochemistry of petroleum; petroleum and natural-gas prospecting; 
meteorology; classification of crude oils and isolation of aromatic hydro- 
carbons from them; modeling of processes occurring at earthquake foci; 
paleomagnetism and its application to stratigraphy, paleoclimatology, 
paleontology, geotectonics, and paleovolcanism. 
3) 
Name: All-Union Scientific-Research Institute for Asbestos, Mica, Asbestos- 
Cement Products, and Planning Mica Plants 
(Vsesoyuznyy nauchno-issledovatel'skiy institut asbesta, slyudy, 
asoesto-tsementnykh izdeliy i proyektirovaniya predpriyatiy 
slyudyanoy promyshlennosti--VNIIAsbesttsement ) 
Address: Moscow, Pervomayskaya ulitsa, 104 
Director: -- 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Ministry of Construction Materials Industry, 
U.S.S.R. (1957) 
Selected Staff Members: 
I. Dodonov 
D. M. Kheyker 
M. S. Leyzerson 
Description: 
Synthetic micas developed at the Institute include Ftorflogopit 
[KMg3(Si3A10,))Fo], Teniolit [KMg,Li(Si,,0,))Fol, and metal-crystalline 
micas such as Novomycalex, mica ceramics, and foamed mica. The Institute 
