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Description: 
This design and construction organization has its headquarters in 
Moscow, with a branch office in Dnepropetrovsk. The Central Scientific- 
Research Laboratory of Steel Structures is also under its jurisdiction. 
The Institute has studied steel, with projects on heat treatment 
and its effect on mechanical properties, mechanical aging, corrosion strength, 
and vibratory strength. The Institute has also been active in welding 
research, both automatic and semiautomatic, including investigations of the 
mechanical properties of weld metals. 
Items designed at the Institute range from a television tower to a 
portable tension gage with a temperature-compensated standard for measuring 
stresses in a blast furnace. They have also completed the designs for a 
900-ton-capacity blast furnace. 
The Institute also has manufactured a welded blast-furnace jacket 
and torches for automatic and semiautomatic welding, utilizing the results 
of its research. 
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Name: State Institute for the Design and Planning of Aluminum, Magnesium, 
and Electrode Plants 
(Gosudarstvennyy institut po proyektirovaniyu alyuminiyevykh, 
magniyevykh, elektrodnykh zavodov--Giproalyuminiy ) 
Address: Leningrad, Sredniy prospekt, 80 
Director: L. D. Khodyko (1960) 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: -- 
Selected Staff Members: 
V. A. Krochevskiy 
A. E. Montvid, Candidate 
V. I. Nosikov, Candidate 
Description: 
The Institute designs plants and equipment and develops new process- 
ing techniques for the aluminum industry. Methods to extract aluminum from 
lean ores has been studied. A new Bayer sintering flow sheet for the treat- 
ment of Turgay bauxites has been developed. The effectiveness of welded 
contacts in the electrometallurgy of aluminum was determined. An electro- 
thermal method for producing aluminum was developed here. The Institute has 
a Ural Branch. 
