868 (Continued) 
A. I. Ivanov, Docent, Head of Chair 
V. I. Kalinin, Professor 
V. G. Kamysheva-Yelpat'yevskiy, Professor, Head of Chair 
M. L. Kats 
Z I. Kir'yashkina, Docent, Head of Chair 
V. Ya. Krasil'nikov, Docent 
I. S. Mustafin, Professor, Head of Chair 
V. B. Ostrovskiy, Docent, Head of Chair 
Ye. I. Pokusayev, Professor, Head of Chair 
A. A. Ponomarev, Professor 
A. P. Shvetsov, Docent, Head of Chair 
A. N. Sus 
Description: 
Saratov State University was founded in 1909. During the 1960-1961 
school year, about 5,800 students were enrolled. The University confers 
Candidate's and Doctor's Degrees. 
Recently, the University has been responsible for carrying out a 
program of testing furan compounds. Other fields of chemical research in 
which staff and students at the University have been active include polymer- 
ization of styrene, techniques of analytical chemistry, fluorescence spectra 
of crude oils, and thermal cracking of hydrocarbons. The University has 
carried out investigations of aldehydes and ketones, praseodymium and other 
rare earths, catalytic dehydrogenation of isopentene to isoprene, the 
viscosity of liquids, degassing of nickel, electropolishing of metals, and 
adsorption of electrolytes by nickelous hydroxide. 
Students and staff in the field of mechanics have performed research 
in subjects such as flow of liquids of varying viscosity, thermodynamics 
of irreversible processes, aerodynamic flow around wings, and plates and 
shells, particularly stresses and deformations in plates and shells, theory 
of anisotropic thick plates, and theory of shallow shells. Mathematicians 
at the University have investigated differential equations, theory of ana- 
lytical functions, and universal classes of algebras. The University has a 
computer center and is interested in computer engineering and applications. 
The University has an active radiophysics research section which 
is interested in fields such as waveguides, delay systems, klystron elec- 
tronics, magnetrons, electron-wave oscillators with a retarding field, and 
equations for travelling-wave tubes and backward-wave oscillators. The 
University has performed research on semiconductors, including investigation 
of P-N junction diodes and measurement of permittivity and resistance of 
semiconductors. Considerable effort has been expended in the field of 
luminescence and absorption spectra of alkali halide crystal phosphors. 
Other fields of interest include electric-field simulation, focusing of 
electron beams, and interactions of charged particles with an electric field. 
The University has a Scientific-Research Institute of Geology under 
the direction of L. A. Nazarkin and a Scientific-Research Institute of 
Mechanics and Physics, whose director is P. V. Golubkov, Professor. 
