972 (Continued) 
Since 1948, GAISh has been an international center for the study 
of variable stars. In 1929, a time-service laboratory was organized. The 
Institute also makes observations in the fields of astrometry, stellar 
astronomy, astrophysics, and other branches of astronomy. 
Since 1954, the Institute has had at its disposal an abundant col- 
lection of instruments and laboratories at the astronomical observatory in 
the Palace of Science on the Lenin Hills. Operations are also carried on 
in observatories at Krasnaya Presnya and in Kuchino, near Moscow. In 1958, 
observations were also begun in the southern observatory station in the 
Crimea. In addition, there is a high-altitude station in the Zailiyskiy 
Alatau Mountains. 
The Institute publishes a Trudy and a Soobshcheniya. 
HES 
Name: State Hydrological Institute 
(Gosudarstvennyy gidrologicheskiy institut--GGI) 
Address: Leningrad, B. 0., 2-ya liniya, 23 
Director: -- 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: -- 
Selected Staff Members: -- 
Description: 
Established in 1919, the Institute has evidenced steady growth in 
hydrotechnology. Laboratories are maintained at Zelorogorsk and Valdoy, and 
a separate station exists at Dulovka. In 1943, the State Oceanographic 
Institute was formed from this institute. In addition to basic interests in 
hydrochemistry, forecasting, measuring instruments, low tides, lakes and 
marshes, and river-bed dynamics, the Institute provides for special research 
programs. In 1959, expeditions were made to study problems such as the 
hydrometry of mountain rivers, sediment runoff, ice conditions, transforma- 
tion of river banks, and silting of water basins. The Institute has 
regularly published a Trudy. The Candidate's Degree is granted. 
O7h 
Name: State Institute for Planning Metellureical Plants 
.Cosudarstvennyy institut proyektiroveniya metallureicheskixi 
zavodov==Gipromez } 
Address: Moscow, prospekt Mira, 101 
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