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F. D. Gakhov, Professor 
F, Ya. Gavrilyuk, Professor 
L. P. Gromov, Docent, Head of Chair 
A. L. Khodakov 
A. B. Kogan, Professor, Head of Chair 
P. N. Kovalenko, Professor, Head of Chair 
G. R. Matukhin, Docent 
A. K. Nikifin, Professor, Head of Chair 
N. S. Novosil'tsev, Docent 
O. A. Osipov 
I. I. Potapov, Professor 
P. V. Semernin, Professor, Head of Chair 
I. A. Shamray, Docent 
M. A. Tarasov, Docent, Head of Chair 
V. A. Tishchenko, Party Secretary 
I. I. Vorovich, Docent 
A. I. Yegorov, Professor 
Description: 
Rostov State University was founded in 1917. It is a medium-size 
university and had an enrollment of about 6,050 students for the 1960-1961 
school year. It confers Candidate's and Doctor's Degrees. 
Whenever possible, the University's research policy is to direct 
its activities toward the local needs of its district. The physics group 
has done considerable work on piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials, 
particularly barium titanate. Single crystals having ferroelectric proper- 
ties have been studied. Staff members at the University designed and 
developed an X-ray spectrometer which is used in other laboratories in the 
Soviet Union. Other interests of the physics group include narrow-band 
oscillatory systems, waveguides, klystrons and travelling-wave tubes, ion- 
ospheric layers, electron optics, and neutron scattering in antiferromag- 
netic materials. Associated with the University is a Scientific-Research 
Institute of Physics whose activities seem to be focused on the work with 
piezoelectric materials. 
One of the primary interests in chemistry has been to develop new 
physical-chemical methods of analysis. For example, investigators have 
worked on problems such as electrolytic analysis and separation, analysis of 
fine dusts and aerosols, and analysis of trace elements in metals. Other 
fields of interest include anodizing of metals, plastics, electrolytic 
reduction of cadmium and other metals, dielectric materials, and the proper- 
ties of substances such as gadolinium hydroxide, quinoline and its deriva- 
tives, zirconium hydroxides, alkali metals, nitrate mixtures, polyphenylene 
methyl resins, and monosaccharides. 
Investigators in mathematics are interested in partial differential 
equations, integral equations, boundary-value problems, analytical functions, 
and theory of an ideal incompressible liquid. Their computations of thin- 
walled shafts, plates, and covers have played a large part in widening their 
use in industry. The University's URAL I computer has been used for program- 
ming structural-analysis problems. 
