828 (Continued) 
Director: -- 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Academy of Sciences, Belorussian S.S.R. (1962) 
Selected Staff Members: 
N. S. Akulov, Academician (Belorussian S.S.R.), Head of the 
Laboratory of Physical Problems 
I. A. Bakuto 
K. V. Gorev, Academician (Belorussian S.S.R.) 
Ye. G. Konovalov 
A. I. Makarevich 
V. P. Severdenko, Academician (Belorussian S.S.R.) 
Description: 
The Institute is active in research on stainless steels, gray iron, 
austenitic steels, titanium, and aluminum. In particular, its studies have 
concerned recrystallization, electro-erosion, heat treatment, and stresses 
produced by rolling. It has also investigated webbed forgings, closed-die 
stamping, cooling of castings, cutting tools utilizing oscillation techniques, 
and rigid ball burnishes for honing automotive cylinder heads. Ultra-strong 
materials, semiconductors, and biophysical processes are also of interest to 
Institute staff members. The Institute publishes a Sbornik Nauchnykh 
Trudov. 
829 
Name: Physical-Technical Institute 
(Fiziko-tekhnicheskiy institut) 
Address: Sukhumi 
Director: I. F. Kvartskhava, Academician (Georgian S.S.R.) (1960) 
Deputy Directors: I. Grendzetely (1960) 
P. V. Chelidze (1960) 
Administrative Affiliation: Academy of Sciences, Georgian S.S.R. (1961) 
Selected Staff Members: 
V. M. Blagoveshchenskiy 
R. A. Demirkhanov, Professor, Head of the Institute on Plasma 
Physics and Nuclear Physics 
V. V. Dorokhov 
Vv. M. Gusev 
M. I. Guseva 
T. I. Gutkin, Doctor 
