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1025 (Continued) 
Description: 
The Institute provides training in general agriculture, horticulture, 
forestry, and related sciences. Some specific courses are in agronomy, soil 
sciences and agrochemistry, fruit and vegetables, viniculture, silk culture, 
agricultural economics and organization, and forestry. It publishes a Trudy. 
1026 
Name: Tashkent Astronomical Observatory 
(Tashkentskaya astronomicheskaya observatoriya) 
Address: Tashkent 
Director: V. P. Shcheglov, Corresponding Academician (Uzbek S.S.R.) (1959) 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Academy of Sciences, Uzbek S.S.R. (1959) 
Selected Staff Members: 
B. Zh. Balzhinova 
I. M. Ishchenko 
A. A. Latypov, Candidate, Head of Photographic Observation Station 
(for observing artificial earth satellites) 
Description: 
In 1958, the Tashkent Astronomical Observatory celebrated its 85th 
Anniversary. It is reportedly the oldest scientific-research institution 
in Central Asia. The Observatory maintains its own meteorological station, 
a Time Station, and a Solar Laboratory, and since 1941, it has administered 
the Kitab International Latitude Station. 
The activities of the Observatory include a time service, solar 
physics, artificial-earth-satellite tracking, and work in positional and 
planetary astronomy. It publishes a Trudy and a Tsirkulyar. 
1027 
Name: Tashkent Electrical Engineering Institute of Communications 
(Tashkentskiy elektrotekhnicheskiy institut svyazi) 
Address: Tashkent, ulitsa Labzak, 112 
Director: M. I. Astrakhov (1961) 
Deputy Director: -- 
