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Description: 
ENIN was organized in 1930 on the foundation of the Branch of Power 
Engineering of the Commission for the Study of Natural Productive Forces. 
It is composed of 10 faculties with 60 chairs, including thermal-power 
engineering, power-engineering design, industrial use of power, electric- 
power engineering, and computing machines. There are numerous supporting 
facilities, for example, Laboratories of Combustion Physics, High-Voltage 
Gas Discharge, Intensification of Furnace Processes, Heat Exchange and 
Transfer, Electrical Mechanics imeni K. I. Shenkser, Fuel Utilization, and 
Electrical Systems, and a Heliotechnical Laboratory. A Power Engineering 
Laboratory in Leningrad is also subordinate to the Institute. 
The highly specialized research of the Institute is concentrated 
on the study of scientific problems of power engineering, questions of 
electrical engineering, heat exchange, methods for thermal molding, scientific 
bases for determining the usability of fuels, and the use of new energy 
sources. 
The Laboratory of High-Voltage Gas Discharge research on the physics 
of lighting has resulted in the development of means for the protection of 
buildings and electrical transmission lines during storms. This research 
also necessitated the development of methods for the production of artificial 
lightning. 
Surface (flameless) combustion, thermodynamics and propagation of 
flames, and heat exchange and transfer in molten and liquid metals have been 
studied by various groups within the Institute. 
In its search for new power sources, the Institute has given consid- 
erable attention to the development of solar energy. The Heliotechnical 
Laboratory has developed several thermal facilities utilizing solar energy, 
for example, kitchen ranges, boilers, heaters, etc. Current plans indicate 
that an electric power station utilizing solar energy will be erected in 
Armenia. In the course of their attempts to solve the problems of direct 
transformation of radiant energy into electricity, the possible use of sil- 
icon photocells and methods for the improvement of solar batteries have been 
investigated. 
ENIN issues Trudy and a Sbornik Statey, and in April, 1959, commenced 
publication of the journal Elektroenergetika. The Candidate's and Doctor's 
Degrees are granted by the Institute. 
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Name: Power Engineering Institute imeni I. G. Yes'man 
(Energeticheskiy institut imeni I. G. Yes 'man--ENIN) 
Address: Baku, ulitsa 28 Aprelya 
