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Name: Institute of Africa 
(Institut afriki) 
Address: Moscow 
Director: I. 1. Potekhin, Doctor (1961) 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R. (1961) 
Selected Staff Members: -- 
Description: 
Studies at this institute emphasize problems of the colonial 
system, emerging nationalism, and the general economic and political 
situation in Africa. Publications of the staff of this institute, together 
with the staff of the Institute of the Peoples of Asia, appear in "Narody 
Azii i Afriki. Istoriya economik i kul'tura" (Peoples of Asia and Africa. 
History, Economics, and Culture). 
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Name: Institute of Applied Chemistry and Electrochemistry 
(Institut prikladnoy khimii i elektrokhimii) 
Address: Tbilisi 
Director: N. A. Landiya, Corresponding Academician (Georgian S.S.R.) 
(1961) 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Academy of Sciences, Georgian S.S.R. (1961) 
Selected Staff Members: 
R. 1. Agladze, Academician (Georgian S.S.R.) 
T. A. Berezovskaya 
V. N. Gaprindashvili 
T. V. Lonatamishvili 
V. M. Mokhov 
L. I. Topchiashvili 
Description: 
The Institute of Applied Chemistry and Electrochemistry of the 
Academy of Sciences, Georgian S.S.R., was organized in 1956 to study the 
use of local raw materials as construction materials, fertilizers, alloys, 
