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and rubbers, structural mechanics, hydrodynamics, mechanical engineering, 
machine tools and metal cutting, physics of metals (particularly the physical- 
mechanical properties of metals), antifriction materials, and electrical 
engineering. The Institute publishes a Sbornik Nauchnykh Trudov. 
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Name: Yerevan State University 
(Yerevanskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet ) 
Address: Yerevan, ulitsa Abovyana, 104 
Director: G. S. Davtyan, Professor (1958) 
Deputy Director: A. N. Melikyan, Docent 
Administrative Affiliation: Committee of the Council of Ministers of the 
Armenian S.S.R. on Higher and Secondary Special 
Education (1960) 
Selected Staff Members: 
S. A. Akopyan, Professor, Head of Chair 
V. A. Ambartsumyan, Academician (U.S.S.R.) 
Ze G Bashindzhagyan, Professor, Head of Chair 
M. T. Dangyan 
M. M. Manukyan, Docent, Head of Chair 
S. N. Mergelyan, Academician (Armenian S.S.R.) 
S. P. Pogosyan, Professor 
G. S. Saakyan 
G. G. Sevak, Corresponding Academician (Armenian S.S.R.) 
V. M. Tarayan, Corresponding Academician (Armenian S.S.R.) 
T. Sh. Tatevosyan, Docent, Head of Chair 
A. T. Tovmasyan, Docent, Head of Chair 
Description: 
Yerevan State University was founded in 1921. Enrollment for the 
1960-1961 school year was about 5,700 students. The University confers 
Candidate's and Doctor's Degrees. 
Staff and students perform research in the fields of analytical 
chemistry, synthesis of organic compounds, and polymerization. Other chemical 
projects have included precipitation of selenium and tellurium, investigation 
of unsaturated esters, and the use of magnesium bismuthide as a reducing 
agent. 
In mechanics, workers at the University have investigated elastic 
plates, thin shells, steady-state creep, torsion of anisotropic rods, and 
motion of gas in a long pipe. Mathematicians have studied problems such as 
