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K. I. Portnoy 
Ya. M. Potak 
A. I. Pugachev, Candidate 
S. Ratner 
B. M. Rovinskiy 
ale M. Roytman 
A. L. Sel*yano 
D. S. Shrayber, Candidate 
M. G. Smirnov 
M. G. Stepanova 
N. M. Tikhova 
I. I. Titarenko 
M. I. Yegorova 
Ve. I. Zykov 
Description: 
VIAM, founded in 1932, conducts research on the production and 
testing of all aircraft materials for the Soviet aviation industry. It has 
conducted extensive investigations on high-temperature alloys and metallo- 
ceramic materials, refractories, heat-resistant steels, plastics and 
other polymers, melting and casting techniques, and improved methods of 
welding. 
It is conducting a broad program on titanium- and magnesium-alloy 
research. Various types of materials-testing equipment have been developed 
and patented by the Institute. 
It assumes responsibility for setting standards for rods, forged 
pieces, profiles, pipes, and wires for the aviation industry, and publishes 
a Trudy. 
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Name: All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Chemical Reagents 
(Vsesoyuznyy nauchno-issledovatel'skiy institut khimicheskikh 
reaktivov--IREA) 
Address: Moscow, Samokatnaya ulitsa, ha 
Director: -- 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: State Committee for Chemistry of the Council 
ee of Ministers, U.S.S.R. (1959) 
Selected Staff Members: 
I. I. Angelov 
Ye. A. Bozhevol ‘nov 
