668 (Continued) 
Description: 
In 1956, the Ministry of the Merchant Marine (Maritime Fleet) as- 
signed development work in the following areas to this academy: new methods 
of radio and electric navigation, modern maritime power machinery, fleet 
technical operations, hydrographic security for Arctic navigation, and 
testing and development of marine power plants. At that time, the school 
had nine Doctors of Sciences on its staff. 
The Academy includes Departments of Navigation and Radio Navigation 
Instruments, and Chairs of Theoretical Fundamentals of Electrical Engineer- 
ing, Meteorology, Hydrology, and Physics. It has a Laboratory of Marine 
Electric Drives, and its Laboratory of Scientific Research of Navigation 
was planned as the center of such research in the field. It has an "Arctic 
Faculty". 
Studies at the Academy have included jet pumps, injection nozzles, 
depth finders, antennas and radio receiving systems, hydrodynamics, cryogenics, 
flow metering, heat exchange in boilers, and gyrocompasses. The staff also 
has studied ocean currents, dynamic meteorology, and the electric field of 
the atmosphere. 
669 
Name: Leningrad Higher Party School 
(Leningradskaya vyshyaya partiynaya shkola) 
Address: Leningrad 
Director: K. A. Larionov, Professor 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Central Committee of the Communist Party of 
the Soviet Union (1961) 
Selected Staff Members: 
V. K. Ivankin, Professor, Head of Chair 
N. S. Kuzhelev, Docent, Head of Chair 
A. F. Kuz'min, Docent, Head of Chair 
F. V. Nosov, Professor, Head of Chair 
Description: 
Staff members of the Chair of Social Sciences conduct studies of 
Communist Party history in Russia and abroad, workers’ movements, and theo- 
retical problems of Marxism-Leninism. The historical studies concentrate on 
pre-1917 events; however, theoretical studies are contemporary. The school 
publishes Sbornik Statey Kafedr Obshchestvennykh Nauk (Collection of Articles 
of the Chair of Social Sciences) and Sbornik Statey po Ekonomicheskim Voprosam 
(Collection of Articles on Economic Problems). 
