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Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Academy of Sciences, Armenian S.S.R. (1961) 
Selected Staff Members: 
E. B. Adzhimamudov 
Ts. G. Akopyan 
E. A. Arutyunyan 
N. I. Dolokhanova 
S. M. Krtchyan 
I. G. Magak'yan, Academician (Armenian S.S.R.) 
B. M. Meliksetyan 
Description: 
This institute studies the geology and mineralogy of Armenia and 
techniques of prospecting. It has a metallurgical laboratory, which has de- 
veloped a new simplified hydrometallurgical system of obtaining selenium and 
tellurium from anode sludges. 
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Name: Institute of Geological Sciences 
(Institut geologicheskikh nauk) 
Address: Minsk 
Director: A. N. Avksent*yev, Corresponding Academician (Belorussian S.S.R.) 
(1961) 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Academy of Sciences, Belorussian S.S.R. (1961) 
Selected Staff Members: 
I. A. Balabushevich 
B. V. Bondarenko 
A. V. Fursenko, Corresponding Academician (Belorussian S.S.R.) 
V. K. Golubtsov 
G. I. Kedo 
K. I. Lukashev, Academician (Belorussian S.S.R.) 
V. N. Shcherbina, Corresponding Academician (Belorussian S.S.R.) 
Description: 
Extensive theoretical research is conducted at this institute on 
methods of prospecting for mineral deposits, stratiography, the geological 
history of individual structures, the geology of the Belorussian S.S.R., 
