851 (Continued) 
Administrative Affiliation: State Committee of Higher and Secondary Special 
Education of the Council of Ministers, Latvian 
SSokks (Cle lsiL)} 
Selected Staff Members: 
E. Zh. Freydenfel'd 
V. Ya. Fritsberg 
V. Ya. Ivanovskiy, Docent, Head of Chair 
A. F. Iyevin'sh, Professor, Head of Chair 
L. Ke Lepin, Professor, Head of Chair of Chemistry 
L. V. Nitsetskiy, Docent, Head of Chair of Automation and Computer 
Technology 
V. N. Panteleyev, Docent, Head of Chair 
A. A. Shmidt, Professor, Head of Chair 
V. A. Shteynberg, Docent, Head of Chair 
Ya. Ya. Ulpe, Docent, Dean 
G. Ya. Vanag, Academician (Latvian, S.S.R.) 
A. Re Vatsiyetis, Docent, Head of Chair 
A. Re Veyss, Docent, Dean 
Description: 
The Riga Polytechnic Institute was re-established in 1958 after a 
hO-year lapse. The four faculties of power engineering, machine building, 
chemical engineering, and correspondence courses train engineers for Latvian 
industry in 24 branches of technology. 
The Chemistry Department has studied the nitration, sulfonation, 
structure, and azo combination of beta diketones. Theoretical investigations 
have also been conducted on structure, kinetics, reactive ability, and their 
interrelations. Synthetic materials, plastics, and artificial fibers have 
been studied, with special attention being given to artificial and natural 
high-molecular compounds and polymers. 
The Department of Automation and Computer Technology, which was 
established in 1961, is developing the use of analog computers in problems 
of structural mechanics, strength of materials, and theory of elasticity 
and plasticity. The Laboratory of Electric Modeling has built an electronic 
integrator for analysis of electrical, magnetic, and gravitational fields. 
This computer, which can solve systems of algebraic linear equations with 
"thousands of unknowns", will be useful in geological investigations. 
The Institute periodically publishes a Uchenyye Zapiski. 
The courses available at this institute include electric power 
stations, networks, and systems, electrification of industrial enterprises 
and installations, industrial thermal power engineering (oven and gas-heat 
thermal engineering, and heat-transfer installations), machine building, 
metal-cutting tools, and instruments, precision mechanical instruments, 
