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Special attention has been given to the improvement of the heat resistance 
of borate and silicate glasses by the addition of cesium. Applications for 
such glasses include coatings for the corrosion protection of metals, 
lubricants and coolants for light-metal extrusion, cement for light-metal 
joining, and high-voltage insulators. Chemically resistant and highly 
refractive glasses have also been developed. The Institute is currently 
working on neutron-absorbing glasses and also glasses resistant to cosmic 
rays. The present interest in production processes is the development of 
ultrasonic devices for polishing. 
Research conducted by other departments and chairs of the Institute 
includes soil research, investigations of the fundamental theories of 
elastic and plastic deformation of machine parts (e.g. bearings), improve- 
ment of methods and devices for gas-flow measurements, and development and 
improvement of welding, painting, metal-coating, heat-treatment, stamping, 
forging, machining, extrusion, powder metallurgy, and other production 
processes. 
The Institute publishes technical pamphlets, brochures, and a 
Sbornik Nauchnykh Trudov. 
The Candidate's Degree is granted by the Institute, which offers 
courses of study in automation of production processes, isotope application 
and separation, brewing industry, automobile roads, architecture, industrial 
and civil construction, river installations and hydroelectric power stations, 
gas and heat supply and ventilation, water-supply and sewerage systems, 
automotive transport, exploitation of peat deposits, machine building, metal- 
cutting tools, and instruments, casting machinery and processes, processing 
metals under pressure, peat-mining machinery, construction and road-building 
equipment, automobiles and tractors, radio engineering, and silicates 
(binders and cementitious materials, ceramics, refractories, and glass). 
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Name: Belorussian State Institute of the National Economy imeni V. V. 
Kuybyshev 
(Belorusskiy gosudarstvennyy institut narodnogo khozyaystva imeni 
Vv. V. Kuybysheva) 
Address: Minsk, ulitsa Sverdlova, 3 
Director: G. L. Sugrobov, Docent (1961) 
Deputy Directors: F. V. Borovik, Docent (1961) 
D. F. Yeremeyev, Docent (1961) 
Administrative Affiliation: Ministry of Higher, Secondary Special and 
Professional Education, Belorussian S.S.R. 
(1960 ) 
