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Name: Odessa State University imeni I. I. Mechnikov 
(Odesskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet imeni I. I. Mechnikova) 
Address: Odessa, ulitsa Shchepkina, 12 
Director: A. I. Yurzhenko, Professor (1961) 
Deputy Director: S. M. Kovbasyuk, Docent (1961) 
Administrative Affiliation: Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special 
; SO) anoteni cesar Education, Ukrainian S.S.R. (1960) 
Selected Staff Members: 
A. V. Bogatskiy, Docent, Head of Chair 
I. M. Duz'", Docent, Dean 
D. G El’kin, Professor, Head of Chair 
R. O. Faytel'’berg, Professor, Head of Chair 
V. A. Fedoseyev 
M. I. Gavrilov 
O. D. Knab 
I. G. Leonov, Docent, Head of Chair 
A. G Lobunets, Docent, Head of Chair 
N. E. Ovander, Docent, Head of Chair 
O. J. Panich 
G. B. Petrazhitskiy 
A. K. Plisov 
D. I. Polishchuk 
T. Ya. Ser, Docent 
V. Ve Serdyuk 
P. L. Tranchenko, Professor, Head of Chair 
V. P. Tsesevich, Professor, Head of Chair 
I. Ya. Yatsko, Docent, Head of Chair 
Description: 
Odessa State University had an enrollment of about 8,200 students 
for the 1960-1961 year. It has an extensive evening and correspondence pro- 
gram. Publications include Pratsi Zbirnyk Molodykh Uchenyk Universytetu; 
Pratsi Prirodnichi Nauki; Trudy, Seriya Obshchestvennykh Nauk; Trudy, Sbornik 
Molodykh Uchenykh Universiteta; Trudy, Seriya Filologicheskikh Nauk; and 
Nauchnyy Yezhegodnik. Candidate"s and Doctor's Degrees are granted. 
A foremost area of research in the University is gas dynamics. 
Particular studies have concerned combustion and evaporation of drops of 
liquid fuel, sprayed-fuel drops in fuel-air mixture, heat-transfer determin- 
ation in a drop by boundary-layer method, and flame propagation of two-phase 
mixtures. In mathematics, the University has worked on differential equa- 
tions, quantum mechanics, and the boundary-=value problem. 
Chemical investigations include studies of malonic esters, cro- 
tonic esters, diacyl peroxides, alkyl acrylic acids, styrene polymerization, 
