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After its inception in 1930, the Instrument-Construction Department 
studied problems of design and analysis and manufacture, including work on 
aircraft-sighting devices. However, in the post-war period, the Department 
expanded and shifted its interest to gyroscopic instruments and devices. 
Currently, they are studying and developing optical target simulators and 
optical systems for photoelectric control and measuring devices. Precision 
instruments, their manufacture, and assembly have also been covered in 
numerous research projects. 
Research also is being conducted on the properties of plastics and 
other synthetic materials and their application in instrument bearings and 
high-precision casting molds. In connection with these studies, automatic 
equipment has been developed for the manufacture and treatment of plastics. 
Due to the fact that the technology of machine building is of prime 
interest, the staff is working constantly on the problems of strength calcu- 
lation faced by the machine industry. Also in connection with this interest, 
many phases of metalworking and treatment have been investigated. They are 
constantly attempting to develop new methods and equipment, improve the old, 
and automate processes. A small sampling of this work includes improved 
accuracy in machining, vibratory drilling, cyclone melting, a new type of 
drawing mill, casting, and heat treating. 
The large staff of MVIU produces many textbooks, general-interest 
books, and a Trudy, in addition to innumerable technical and scientific 
tracts. 
The Institute grants both the Candidate's and Doctor’s Degrees. Its 
curricula include courses in machine-building technology, machine tools, 
equipment and technology of pressure working metals, metallurgy, heat treat- 
ment of metals, welding equipment and technology, boiler building, internal- 
combustion engines, hydroturbines and other hydraulic machines, refrigerators 
and compressors, auxiliary equipment, locomotive building, optical instruments, 
precision-mechanical instruments, automation and remote control, mathematical 
machines and computers, gyroscopic instruments, design and production of 
radio equipment, electrovacuum machines, and mechanical engineering. 
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Name: Moscow Institute of Chemical Machine Building 
(Moskovskiy institut khimicheskogo mashinostroyeniya--MIKhM) 
Address: Moscow, ulitsa Karla Marksa, 21/4 
Director: P.M. Reshchikov, Docent (1961) 
Deputy Directors: D. T. Kokorev, Professor (1961) 
Ye. V. Lyalin, Docent (1961) 
Administrative Affiliation: Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special 
Education, R.S.F.S.R. (1960) 
