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Administrative Affiliation: Academy of Sciences, Turkmen S.S.R. (1961) 
Selected Staff Members: I. S. Astapovich 
Description: 
The Institute has carried out research on rare and rare-earth 
elements in collaboration with the Institutes of Chemistry and Geology of 
the Turkmen Academy. It took part in the International Geophysical Year by 
conducting observations of meteors, the ionosphere, earth currents, the 
night air glow, and geomagnetic and geoelectric phenomena. These observa- 
tions were carried out at the Institute itself, in its Astrophysics Labor- 
atory, in its Ionospheric-Wave-Propagation Laboratory, and at two newly 
established sites in the villages of Vannovskiy and Bikrov. Work has been 
done on the continuity of sunshine, strength of solar radiation, and data 
of practical significance for the work of helio installations. The staff 
also has studied the use of spectroscopy in the analysis of petroleum. 
The Institute publishes a Trudy. 
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Name: Institute of Physics and Mathematics 
(Institut fiziki i matematiki) 
Address: Baku 
Director: Z. I. Khalilov, Academician (Azerbaydzhan S.S.R.) 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Academy of Sciences, Azerbaydzhan S.S.R. 
Selected Staff Members: 
. B. Abddullayev, Corresponding Academician (Azerbaydzhan S.S.R.) 
A. Bashshaliyev 
- lL. Ibragimov 
. A. Kuliyev 
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Description: 
This institute conducts research in several important fields. Most 
its research is in pure mathematics, but considerable work has been done 
so on the physics of semiconductors, combustion processes and products, 
€ acoustie effect in liquids, solar energy conversion, and boundary layers. 
Research of the staff is published infrequently in a Trudy. 
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