907 (Continued) 
machines and induction furnaces, and automatic equipment for casting in shell 
molds. Welding studies have included mechanization and automation of welding 
and resistance welding of longitudinal tube seams by radio-frequency current; 
other interests of the Institute are high-frequency inverters using gas-filled 
and vacuum tubes, industrial applications of high-frequency currents, cooling 
capacity of fluids, hardening of tubes of glass-reinforced plastics by high- 
frequency heating, hardening of crankshaft journals, bearing links, and steel 
parts, cutting tubes by rupture using zonal induction heating, and high- 
frequency heating for core drying. 
The Institute publishes a Trudy. 
908 
Name: Scientific-Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Instrument 
Building 
(Nauchno-issledovatel'skiy institut gidrometeorologicheskogo 
priborostroyeniya--NIIGP ) 
Address: Moscow, pereulok Pavlika Morozova, le 
Director: -- 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: -- 
Selected Staff Members: 
M. Asbel', Chief Engineer 
L. L. Dashkevich 
K. N. Manuilov 
S. I. Nepomnyashchiy 
I. A. Savikovskiy 
I. M. Shenderovich 
N. I. Shteyn 
D. Ya. Surazhskiy 
Vv. A. Ulsol'tsev 
N. S. Varzhenevskiy 
Description: 
This institute is primarily involved in the design and construction 
of prototypes of measuring instruments. Emphasis is currently placed on the 
automation of hydrometeorological measurements. The staff of the Institute 
has developed an automated, telemetered, meteorological aircraft station 
(TMAS) designed for remote-control servicing to airdromes, hydrometeorological 
offices, and weather stations to create a system for higher accuracy in 
weather data. Various forms of radiosondes and aircraft meteorographs are 
being developed. 
