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Selected Staff Members: 
D. A. Diomidovskiy, Professor 
N. Greyver, Doctor, Chief of Metallurgy Group 
V. M. Gus'kov, Professor, Head of Department of Metallurgy of Light 
and Rare Metals 
V. N. Kozhevnikova 
I. N. Maslenitskiy, Professor, Doctor 
Yu. M. Misnik, Docent, Dean 
D. V. Nalivkin, Academician (U.S.S.R.), Head of Chair of Historical 
Geology 
I. N. Piskunov, Professor 
M. P. Pyatnitskaya, Candidate 
T. Ya. Radionov, Head of Research 
I. I. Shafranovskiy, Professor, Head of Chair of Crystallography 
N. K. Smirnov, Docent, Dean 
P. M. Tatarinov, Corresponding Academician (U.S.S.R.), Head of Chair 
I. P. Tolstunov, Party Secretary 
A. A. Utyuzhkina, Docent, Head of Chair 
V. G Zhdanovich 
A. M. Zhuravskiy, Professor, Head of Chair 
Description: 
The Leningrad Mining Institute, founded in 1773, is the oldest 
higher technical school in the U.S.S.R. It concentrates on producing 
engineers and specialists rather than teachers and researchers. The 
Institute's eight faculties train students in fourteen branches of science. 
Each year the staff carries out approximately 800 experiments of 
scientific and practical interest. Research projects and investigations 
conducted have included X-ray and spectral analysis of rocks and minerals, 
measurement of stresses, and studies of the gravitational and magnetic 
anomalies of the earth's crust. 
The Chemical Laboratory has conducted research on the physical and 
electrical properties of platinum alloys. New methods of geophysical sur- 
veying, especially the use of aerial photography for compiling large-scale 
topographical maps, have been studied and developed by the Chair of Geo- 
physics. They have also applied electrical and radio engineering and 
electronics principles and techniques in geophysical prospecting. 
The Chair of Crystallography has done considerable work on the 
morphology of crystals and minerals. Investigations of phenomena in solid- 
state physics, hydrodynamics and hydrokinetics, nonferrous-metallurgy 
furnaces, and production methods for selenium and tellurium have been 
conducted. 
In addition to numerous chairs and laboratories (Petroleum 
Prospecting, Metallurgy of Heavy Nonferrous and recious Metals, Geology, 
Hydrology, Higher Mathemates, Concentration of Useful Minerals, etc.), a 
mining museum is located at the Institute. 
