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Selected Staff Members: -- 
Description: 
Since about 1957, this institute has been investigating the economic 
production of glass fiber and mineral wool in collaboration with the Insti- 
tute of Glass Fibers. New cast-iron-melting installations and new continuous 
steelmaking furnaces utilizing oxygen have been developed. mgineers of the 
Institute have designed a microcalorimeter for high-speed measurement of heat 
losses in industrial instruments. 
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Name: Irkutsk Agricultural Institute 
(Irkutskiy sel'skokhozyaystvennyy institut) 
Address: Irkutsk, ulitsa Timeryazeva, 59 
Director: V. V. Nazimov, Docent (1961) 
Deputy Director: A. I. Kuznetsova, Professor (1961) 
Administrative Affiliation: Ministry of Agriculture, R.S.F.S.R. (1960) 
Selected Staff Members: 
I. S. Buddo, Professor, Head of Chair 
V. P. Revyakin, Docent, Head of Chair 
L. F. Volkova 
Description: 
An Izvestiya has been published here since at least 1954. The 
reported research of the staff has concerned methods for studying electro- 
deposited alloys, iron-zine electroplating for repairing machinery parts, 
reciprocal reactions in alkali-metal fused-salt mixtures, and the ternary 
system of lithium and sodium molybdates and tungstates. 
Courses are offered in agronomy, animal husbandry (wildlife con- 
servation), and mechanization of agriculture. 
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Name: Irkutsk Branch of the All-Union Scientific-Research and Design 
Institute of Chemical-Machine Construction 
(Irkutskiy filial vsesoyuznogo nauchno-issledovatel'skogo i konstruk- 
torskogo instituta khimicheskogo mashinostroyeniya) 
Address: Irkutsk, ulitsa akademika Kurchatova, 3 
