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Developmental work is being done on gas turbine engines for vessels with 
underwater stabilizers, ships traveling on air cushions, and new hydrome- 
chanical devices to increase the speed of ships. 
Other research of the Institute has been in ferrous metallurgy, 
welding and torch-cutting, ultrasonic welding, the use of epoxy resins and 
other plastic compounds as welding substitutes, radioactive isotope inves- 
tigation of metal wear and isotope quality control systems, thermodynamics 
and heat transfer problems, metal deposition mechanisms, hydrodynamics, and 
corrosion protection. 
The Institute publishes a Trudy and confers the Candidate's and 
Doctor's Degrees. Works of the student scientific-technical society are 
also published irregularly. 
The courses of study include the following: construction of water- 
ways and ports, ship machines, industrial electrification, cranes, elevators, 
etc., and water-transportation economics and organization. 
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Name: Leningrad Military-Mechanical Institute 
(Leningradskiy voyenno-mekhanicheskiy institut--LVMI) 
Address: Leningrad, Pervaya Krasnoarmeyskaya ulitsa, 1 
Director: -= 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: -- 
Selected Staff Members: 
N. P. Ageyev, Candidate 
V. N. Kudryavtsev, Professor 
P. G Maslov 
G. A. Smirnov-Alyayev, Professor, Head of Department for Pressure 
Working of Metals 
K. P. Strashinina 
Description: 
This institute has published research in the following fields: 
pressure working of metals and their plastic deformation resulting from 
forming, thermodynamic properties of organic compounds and alkali-metal 
inorganic compounds, satellite orbital mechanics and projectile trajectories, 
and aerogasdynamics. In collaboration with the Leningrad "Vibrator" Plant, 
an improved optical system for precision reading of electrical readings has 
been developed under the supervision of the Chair of Descriptive Drawing and 
Geometry. A Trudy is published each month. 
