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Selected Staff Members: 
B. Broude, Instructor, Head of Department of Aeromechanics and 
Aircraft Design 
V. L. Goffman, Chief of Aircraft Department 
N. Krylov, Head of Department of Electrical and Radio Equipment 
S. Podkaminer, Professor, Head of Department of Air Transportation 
Management 
M. Sheynin, Chief Engineer 
F. Ya. Spasskiy, Professor, Head of Chair 
Description: 
Graduates of this school have the title Engineer-Pilot. They 
serve on the crews of Soviet civil airliners. The first specialists 
graduated in 1959. 
The Academy has Departments of Flight Operations (under the 
Director), Aeromechanics and Aircraft Design, Aircraft, Air Transportation 
Management, and Electrical and Radio Equipment. It has aerodynamics and 
engine laboratories in which studies of transonic flow and wire fatigue are 
conducted. Navigational and radar systems are studied for airport-control 
and flight-safety applications. It publishes a Trudy. 
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Name: High-Mountain Geophysics Institute 
(Vysokogornyy geofizicheskiy institut) 
Address: Nal'chik, North Caucasus 
Director: G. K. Sulakvelidze, Doctor (1961) 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R. (1961) 
Selected Staff Members: 
L. N. Gutman, Doctor 
L. N. Mal'ko 
Description: 
In 1961, the High-Mountain (usually referred to as High Altitude) 
Geophysics Institute was organized on the basis of the Kabardino-Balkar 
Department (Kabardino-Balkarskoye otdeleniye) of the Institute of Applied 
Geophysics, Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R. Four modernly equipped labora- 
tories, the Geophysical Station "El"brus", Terskol Peak, Chiget Peak, and 
