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Description: 
The Institute was established in 1960 with a basic aim, according to 
its Director, “to find new ways of applying radio facilities in various 
branches of the national economy, industry in particular". Some of the tasks 
listed as research problems concern the use of radio frequencies for rock 
destruction, wireless power transmission, and radio-frequency studies of 
polymerization in plastics. The staff also plans to develop ultrasonic in- 
strumentation for heart-disease detection and an apparatus for two- and 
three-dimensional X-ray photography. 
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Name: Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics 
(Institut radiofiziki i elektroniki--IRE AN UkSSR) 
Address: Khar'kov, Yumovskiy Tupik 
Director: A. Ya. Usikov, Corresponding Academician (Ukrainian S.S.R.) 
(1961) 
Deputy Director: S. Ya. Braude, Corresponding Academician (Ukrainian S.S.R.) 
(1958) 
Administrative Affiliation: Academy of Sciences, Ukrainian S.S.R. (1961) 
Selected Staff Members: 
F. G. Bass, Candidate 
P. V. Blokh, Candidate 
A. A. Galkin 
V. I. Gorbach 
E. A. Kaner 
V. M. Kontorovich 
A. V. Men’, Corresponding Academician (Ukrainian S.S.R.) 
Description: 
The Institute, organized in 1955, has been engaged in the study of 
physical electronics. This has involved the study of the electronic 
properties of solids and their surfaces to improve the old and create new 
types of electron sources. Other investigations have concerned the 
properties of plasma, the excitation of oscillations in different frequency 
intervals, the design and working of accelerators for electrons and ions, 
and improvements in generators of electromagnetic oscillations of various 
types (masers). 
The Institute also grants advanced degrees in radio physics and 
electronics, radio astronomy, and theoretical physics. 
