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Selected Staff Members: 
K. A. Grigoryan 
G. A. Gurzadyan 
B. Ye. Markaryan 
E. G. Mirzabekyan 
K. A. Saakyan 
V. A. Sanamyan 
Description: 
The Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory was first organized in 1933 
as an affiliate of Yerevan State University; it was later brought under the 
direct jurisdiction of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian S.S.R. Its 
official dedication took place on September 19, 1956. 
The Observatory's principal fields of activity are the study of 
galaxies, the origin and life of stars, the nebulae, radio astrophysics, and 
extragalactic astronomy. 
Among its various instruments are a 13-cm wide-angle double astro- 
graph, a 30-cm Schmidt reflector, a 25-cm mirror-telescope spectrograph, a 
15-cm astrograph with an ultraviolet objective, and a 53-cm Schmidt tele- 
scope. Radio-astronomical observations were started in 1951 using a para- 
bolic radio telescope 3 meters in diameter, and in 1960, the largest radio- 
interference telescope in the Soviet Union, and the second largest in the 
world, was commissioned for this observatory. 
The Observatory has four laboratories dealing with stellar astron- 
omy, astrophysics, radio astronomy, and celestial mechanics. It publishes 
a Soobshcheniya. 
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Name: Caucasian Institute of Mineral Raw Materials 
(Kavkazskiy institut mineral'nogo syr'ya--KIMS) 
Address: Georgian S.S.R. 
Director: -- 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Ministry of Geology and Conservation of Mineral 
7 RARCMIEOS Gr NS WES Sola (Us) 
Selected Staff Members: 
B. V. Deryagin, Corresponding Academician (U.S.S.R.) 
S. S. Dukhin 
N. D. Shukakidze 
