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Ledovaya bases have been developed on the slopes of Mount El*brus at heights 
of from 500 to 4,000 meters above sea level by the Department and its 
predecessors during the preceding 26 years. 
The main tasks of this newly formed institute are studies of the 
physics of cloud and rain formation, the physical properties of layers of 
snow and avalanches, optical properties of the atmosphere, and local 
meteorological processes which are linked with high-mountain conditions. 
A Trudy is published. 
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Name: Hydrochemical Institute 
(Gidrokhimicheskiy institut) 
Address: Novocherkassk, Moskovskaya, 61 
Director: V. G. Datsko (1961) 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R. (1958) 
Selected Staff Members: 
O. A. Alekin, Corresponding Academician (U.S.S.R.) 
N. G Fesenko 
V. E. Goremykin 
G. S. Konovalov 
P. A. Kryukov 
A. T. Matveyev 
N. P. Moricheva 
V. B. Stradomskiy 
Description: 
The Hydrochemical Institute was established in 1921 and came 
under the administrative jurisduction of the Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R., 
in 1938. The primary task of the Institute is the study of the chemical 
composition of domestic bodies of water and their deposits. The staff has 
also studied methods of hydrochemical analysis and phenomena associated 
with the boiling of water, e.g., corrosion. 
The Institute confers advanced degrees. 
