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Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Academy of Sciences, Uzbek S.S.R. (1959) 
Selected Staff Members: 
U. Ibragimov 
S. G. Mel*kanovitskaya 
M. N. Nabiyev, Academician (Uzbek S.S.S.R.), Head of Laboratory 
A. S. Sultanov, Candidate 
I. P. Tsukervanik, Corresponding Academician (Uzbek S.S.R.) 
Kh. U. Usmanov 
Description: 
The Institute of Chemistry conducts research on organic and 
inorganic compounds. The staff has investigated nitric acid treatment of 
phosphates and rare-earth-element extraction. They formed new polymers of 
furan and sylvan, and worked with aromatic compounds and in petroleum 
chemistry. This institute also grants advanced degrees. 
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Name: Institute of Chemistry 
(Institut khimii) 
Address: Yerevan 
Director: M. G. Manvelyan, Corresponding Academician (Armenian S.S.R.) 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Armenian Sovnarkhoz (1957) 
Selected Staff Members: A. G. Yeganyan 
Description: 
The Institute of Chemistry of the Council of National Economy 
(Sovnarkhoz) of the Armenian S.S.R. was reported as newly organized in 
1957. The Institute was formed from the Sector of Inorganic Chemistry 
of the Chemistry Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Armenian S.S.R. 
The first experiments reported at the Institute were on the 
electrical welding of boron silicate glass. Establishment of a helio 
laboratory at the Institute was reported in 1961. This laboratory's 
specialty is problems of the automation of solar installations; it is 
constructing a prototype laboratory solar furnace. 
