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S. K. Sliozberg, Candidate 
I. M. Stroyman, Engineer 
S. M. Taz'ba 
Yu. Terent'yev, Head of Technical-Information Division 
Vv. I. Vill’, Engineer, Head of Laboratory 
L. V. Zaychik, Candidate 
M. P. Zaytsev, Engineer, Head of Laboratory 
Description: 
VNIIESO has developed machines for the friction, fusion, butt, 
and spot welding of a wide range of materials, including polyethylene 
films, aluminum and copper wires, titanium, bronze, and steel. These 
machines have been adapted for production-line manufacture of diesel 
and electric locomotives, automobile bodies, mine shafts, and agricultural 
machines. 
Special interests of the Institute include cold welding of metals 
and welding in an inert (specificially argon) atmosphere. One notable 
achievement is the development of a semiautomatic machine for underwater 
welding in a carbon dioxide atmosphere. 
Welding transformers, motor-generator converters, resistance 
welding machines, automatic and semiautomatic arc welders, power-supply 
sources, rectifiers, ferromagnetic and semiconductor devices, and other 
control instrumentation are typical examples of machinery the staff has 
designed, developed, and producted. 
The Institute has cooperated with Plant Elektrik on many projects. 
The Riga Branch has done research on plasma-jet cutting of metals, 
including the development of a special generator for use in this process. 
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Name: All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Electromechanics 
(Vsesoyuznyy nauchno-issledovatel'skiy institut elektromekhaniki-- 
VNIIEM ) 
Address: -- 
Director: A. G. Iosif'yan, Academician (Armenian S.S.R.) (1961) 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: State Committe of the Council of Ministers, 
U.S.S.R., on Automation and Machine Building 
(1960) 
Selected Staff Members: 
A. B. Al*tman 
I. N. Charakhch'yan 
