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Name: Central Scientific-Research Institute for Fire Prevention 
(Tsentral 'nyy nauchno-issledovatel'skiy institut protivopozharmmoy 
oborony-=-TsNIIPO ) 
Address: -- 
Director: -- 
Deputy Director: I. V. Rabov (1960) 
Administrative Affiliation: -- 
Selected Staff Members: 
N. I. Manturov 
I. I. Petrov, Head of Thermophysical Laboratory 
S. I. Taubkin 
S. M. Zhdanov 
Description: 
This institute is concerned exclusively with the development of 
fire-fighting technology and equipment and appears to be unique in the 
U.S.S.R. Chemical methods for combatting various types of fires, protective 
equipment and clothing, combustion processes for jet fuels and other liquids, 
burning characteristics of plastics, and smoke- and fire-warning systems have 
been studied. A branch laboratory is maintained at Baku. 
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Name: Central Scientific-Research Institute for the Leather and Footwear 
Industry 
(Tsentral'nyy nauchno-issledovatel'skiy institut kozhevennoobuvnoy 
promyshlennosti--TsNIIKP ) 
Address: Moscow, ulitsa Pyatnitskaya, 74 
Director: -- 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: -- 
Selected Staff Members: 
V. M. Fridman 
L. P. Morozova 
