704 (Continued) 
Selected Staff Members: 
O. A. Drozdov, Doctor 
D. Le. Laykhtman, Doctor 
K. S. Shifrin 
N. S. Shishkin 
Yu. D. Yanishevskiy 
M. I. Yudin, Head of the Department of Dynamic Meteorology 
Description: 
The Main Geophysical Observatory is the oldest meteorological estab- 
lishment in the U.S.S.R. In April, 1949, it celebrated its One-Hundredth 
Anniversary. 
Extensive research is carried on here in climatology and micro- 
climatology, dynamic meteorology, radiation, cloud physics, physics of the 
lowest layers of the atmosphere, atmospheric electricity, atmospheric optics, 
radio meteorology, atmospheric acoustics, methodology of meteorological 
observations, and climate and weather control. The Institute's Trudy Number 
121 was published in 1961. 
705 
Name: Mari Pedagogical Institute imeni N. K. Krupskaya 
(Mariyskiy pedagogicheskiy institut imeni N. K. Krupskoy) 
Address: Yoshkar-Ola, Kommunisticheskaya ulitsa, 94 
Director: M. I. Romanov, Docent (1961) 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Ministry of Education, R.S.F.S.R. (1960) 
Selected Staff Members: N. T. Pengitov, Docent, Head of Chair 
Description: 
The staff has conducted research in the theoretical and physical 
chemistry of gases. The Institute offers courses in native language, liter- 
ature, and history, Russian language, and literature, foreign language, 
biology, chemistry, and agriculture. It publishes an Uchenyye Zapiski. 
706 
Name: Marine-Hydrophysics Institute 
(Morskoy gidrofizicheskiy institut) 
