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Selected Staff Members: 
M. I. Aliyev 
M. S. Aliyev 
A. A. Alizade, Academician (Azerbaydzhan S.S.R.) 
Ya. A. Amenzade 
M. Yu. Ametov 
M. G. Mamedli 
A. M. Melik-Shakhnazarov, Docent 
A. M. Mukimov 
B. M. Plyushch, Docent 
I. Prazyan, Candidate 
M. G. Ramazanzade 
V. O. Sarkisyan, Docent 
G. B. Shakhtakhtinskiy 
I. O. Tsimel'zon 
Description: 
The Institute was organized in 1920. It trains students in 
geology, industrial and electrical engineering, designing, and economics. It 
specializes in research for the regional petroleum industry in areas such 
as petroleum geology, drilling, processing, machinery, transporting and 
storing, and petroleum-industry economics. The Institute publishes a Trudy 
and grants Candidate's and Doctor's Degrees. 
Among the available courses of study are geology and exploration of 
mineral and gas deposits, geophysical prospecting, hydrogeology and engi- 
neering geology, exploitation of oil and gas deposits (including drilling), 
machinery and equipment of oil and gas fields (including transportation and 
storage equipment), chemical-industry machinery (inorganic and organic 
chemical processes, silicates, cellulose and wood-pulp processes, liquid and 
gas fuels), automatic, telemechanic, and electric measuring instruments and 
systems, control instruments for chemical processes, petroleum and natural- 
gas technology, organic synthesis and synthetic-rubber manufacture, and 
economies and organization of the oil and gas industry. 
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Name: Azerbaydzhan Order of Labor Red Banner Institute of Oil and Chemistry 
imeni M. Azizbekov 
(Azerbaydzhanskiy ordena Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni institut nefti i 
khimii imeni M. Azizbekova) 
Address: Baku, prospekt Lenina, 20 
Director: I. A. Ibragimov, Docent (1961) 
Deputy Director: -- 
