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Description: 
This institute, prior to 1958, concentrated its efforts on the 
preparation of specialists in oil surveying and extraction. In 1958, it was 
reorganized into an institute serving the oil, chemical, and gas industries. 
The Institute now trains experts in the use of atomic energy in oil refining 
and gas reprocessing, the automation of the oil, chemical, and gas industries, 
construction and use of pipelines and chemical synthesis. 
Research of the Institute has been in thermal and catalytic petro- 
leum cracking, cracking catalysts (especially aluminosilicate catalysts), 
polymerization, physical chemistry, lubricants, antioxidant fuel additives, 
and organosilicon compounds. Considerable research is also done in metal 
physics, metal corrosion, pipeline welding, metalworking, and mechanical 
engineering problems related to the oil, chemical, and gas industries. 
Petroleum geophysical research includes seismology and oil-prospecting 
techniques. Some work is done also in hydrodynamics and gasodynamics. 
The Institute publishes a Trudy frequently. The Candidate’s and 
Doctor's Degrees are granted. 
In its academic program, the Institute offers courses in geology 
and exploration of oil and gas deposits, geophysical prospecting, exploita- 
tion of oil and gas deposits, machinery and equipment for oil and gas fields 
(including transportation and storage equipment), chemical-industry 
machinery (inorganic and organic processes, silicates, and liquid and 
gaseous fuels), control instruments for chemical processes, petroleum and 
natural-gas technology, economics and organization of oil and gas industry. 
7Th6 
Name: Moscow Order of Lenin and Labor Red Banner Institute of Railroad- 
Transportation Engineers imeni I. V. Stalin 
(Moskovskiy ordena Lenina i Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni institut 
inzhenerov zheleznodorozhnogo transporta imeni I. V. Stalina) 
Address: Moscow, ulitsa Obraztsova, 15 
Director: F. P. Kochnev, Professor (1961) 
Deputy Directors: A. I. loannisyan, Professor (1961) 
N. I. Panov, Professor (1961) 
Administrative Affiliation: Ministry of Transportation, U.S.S.R. (1960) 
Selected Staff Members: 
V. M. Akulinichev, Docent, Dean 
L. N. Belokonev, Dean 
S. K. Danilov, Professor, Head of Chair 
