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Address: Moscow, ulitsa Pryanishnikova, 31 
Director: -- 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1958) 
Selected Staff Members: -- 
Description: 
This institute has been engaged in studies of the gamma irradiation 
of seeds and plants. Also under investigation have been surface-active 
agents from petroleum distillates as aids in soil chemistry. A Central Test 
Station is maintained at St. Barybino. The Institute publishes Byulleten’ 
Nauchno-Tekhnicheskoy Informatsii and a Trudy. 
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Name: All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Film Materials and 
Artificial Leather 
(Vsesoyuznyy nauchno-issledovatel'skiy institut plenoch'!nykh 
materialov i iskusstvennoy kozhi--VNIIPIK) 
Address: Moscow, Luzhnikovskaya ulitsa, 11 
Director: V. I. Alekseyenko (1959) 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: -- 
Selected Staff Members: 
B. I. Dinzburg 
Ye. S. Khoroshaya 
I. U. Mishustin 
A. P. Pisarenko 
S. I. Rubina, Head of Raw Materials Laboratory 
S. S. Voyutskiy 
A. D. Zayonchkovskiy 
Description: 
This institute was formed about 1958 from the Central Scientific- 
Research Institute of Leather Substitutes. The Institute's staff has 
studied the use and processing of various fillers in rubber, polyamides, 
and polyvinyl chloride or their mixtures. It has also investigated the 
adhesion of polymers to other polymers and other materials, such as 
