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V. I. Novopol'skiy, Candidate 
K. A. Pechkovskaya 
A. P. Pukhov, Candidate 
M. M. Reznikovskiy, Candidate 
I. I. Seleznev, Head of the Experimental Designing Section 
A. G Shvarts 
V. Uzina 
Description: 
The Institute, which has a Ukrainian Branch, numbers among its 
laboratories the Physics and Chemistry Laboratory and the Laboratory of 
Rubber Reclaiming; it has an Experimental Tire-Repair Plant, and an Experi- 
mental Designing Section. The Institute publishes a Trudy. 
The Institute received awards in 1960 for work on the development 
of heat-resistant butyl rubbers for diaphragms of vulcanizate formers, 
development of two-strip rubber-cord pneumatic springs, and the production 
of soft and thermomasticated rubbers from hard divinyl-styrene rubbers. 
Other awards were for a hydraulic press for pressing tires and the develop- 
ment of tires with new tread design and increased durability. A subject- 
bibliography card index of scientific and technical information is maintained 
at this institute, and translations are made for tire plants in the U.S.S.R. 
Equipment for automatic processing, for tire build-up, and for rubber testing 
is designed for the tire plants serviced by the Institute. 
Vulcanization methods and accelerators, plasticizers, antifatigue 
agents, and mastication accelerators are subjects of frequent study at the 
Institute. Gamma irradiation has been used as an experimental vulcanization 
technique and to study degradation effects on rubber. Rubber and tire 
properties of interest include aging, ozone resistance, stability, fatigue, 
tensile strength, wear resistance, tear resistance, creep, and deformation. 
The properties of caprone tire cords have been studied, and as a result of 
these studies, the Institute recommends the use of caprone cords over many 
other types available in the U.S.S.R. Methods for bonding rubber to metals 
and to tire cords have been discussed. 
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Name: Scientific-Research Institute of the Varnish and Paint Industry 
(Nauchno-issledovatel'skiy institut lakokrasochnoy promyshlennosti-- 
NIILK) 
Address: Moscow 
Director: --= 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: -- 
