908 (Continued) 
The Institute's Isotope Laboratory has developed instruments for 
investigating the melting of snow using radioactive isotopes. The instru- 
ments were supplied to the Institute of Geography, Academy of Sciences, 
U.S.S.R. 
The Institute publishes a Trudy. 
909 
Name: Scientific-Research Institute of Language, Literature, History, and 
Economics 
(Nauchno-issledovatel'skiy institut yazyka, literatury, istorii i 
ekonomiki ) 
Address: Cheboksary 
Director: --= 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: -- 
Selected Staff Members: -- 
Description: 
This institute deals particularly with problems in the history, 
linguistics, and economy of the Chuvash A.S.S.R. It publishes Materialy po 
Istorii Chuvashskoy ASSR (Materials on the History of the Chuvash A.S.S.R.). 
910 
Name: Scientific-Research Institute of Local and Fuel Industry 
(Nauchno-issledovatel 'skiy institut mestnoy i toplivnoy 
promyshlennosti--NIIMestoprom) 
Address: Kiyev 
Director: -- 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Gosplan, Ukrainian S.S.R. (1960) 
Selected Staff Members: -- 
Description: 
Investigative efforts of this institute have been generally re- 
stricted to the fields of organic fuels, plastics, and metallurgy. Recently 
