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Description: 
Leningrad State University, founded in 1819, is the second largest 
university in the Soviet Union. There were about 13,700 students enrolled 
for the 1960-1961 school year. The University publishes two series of 
periodicals, one with the over-all title of Uchenyye Zapiski Leningradskogo 
Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, and the other with the over-all title of 
Vestnik Leningradskogo Universiteta. The University also operates a pub- 
lishing house. 
Examples of student and faculty research activities in chemistry are 
studies of ion exchange, metal-organic compounds, surface phenomena, phase 
diagrams, organic compounds, polymer chemistry, and radio-chemistry. There 
have been projects on adhesives (development of polyethylene-to-metal 
adhesives) and glass (development of a microsieve). Studies have been made 
of uranyl compounds, alkali metals, and rare-earth metals. 
Fields of study in physics, geophysics, mathematics, and mechanics 
include semiconductor physics, wave propagation and wave equations, low- 
temperature physics, X-ray structural analysis, quantum mechanics and quantum 
theory of fields, crystallography, optics, luminescence, acoustics, ultra- 
sonics, atmospheric physics, astrophysics (the University operates an 
astrophysics observatory), and meteorology. There have been studies of single 
erystals, bimetals, pickling of semiconducting metals, ion-energy distribution, 
nuclear magnetic resonance and spin echo, radio waves, propagation of pulse 
Signals, radar mapping, ice bergs, antennas, and diffraction theory. In 
mechanics, fields of interest range from plasticity and elasticity to gas 
dynamics, aerodynamics, and hydrodynamics. For example, studies include 
supersonic flow around wings, boundary-layer problems, and hydraulic shock 
in pipes. 
Geophysical work has included studies of telluric currents, magneto- 
electronic seismography and other seismographic studies, and soundings by 
electromagnetic waves. Mathematics work has concentrated on information 
theory, game theory, and computer mathematics. The University's computing 
center has punch-card and analog devices, plus a recently installed URAL-I 
computer. 
LGU has a number of affiliated research institutes: the Biological 
Institute, which has recently investigated automatic growth of chlorella 
and other single-cell plants in its algae culture laboratory, the Institute 
of Crystallography, the Scientific-Research Institute of Physics, the 
Laboratory of Aerodynamics, the Laboratory of Gas Dynamics, the Laboratory 
of Optical Analysis of Material Strain and Stress, the Institute of Physical 
Instrument Construction, the Cyclotron Laboratory, the Laboratory of Spec- 
troscopy, the Laboratory of Nuclear Spectroscopy, the Laboratory of Gas 
Dynamics of Stress and Strain, the Laboratory of Optics, the Laboratory of 
Ultrasonics, the Laboratory of Photocatalysis, the Laboratory of Magnetic 
Radiospectroscopy, the Radiobiology Laboratory, the X-Ray Laboratory, the 
Laboratory of Semiconductor Problems, which has studied radiation effects on 
semiconducting materials, and the Laboratory of Industrial Psychology, which 
