PROGRESS REPORT JUNE 10, 1951 - FEBRUARY 1, 1952

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 1998
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• Publication Date: February 15, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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M~M OF GO`TS
Title LaiLe
Main Organizational Problems ............. 1
Processing of Source Material............ 2
The Main Direction of Effort............. 4
Preliminary Technical Reports............ 6
Proposed Operations for the Period
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MAIN ORGARIZA.TIO
MIS
A. The abundance of Russian material both on and and at the Librar
of Congress.
Much of this material is of slight value for the purpose of
the project; nevertheless, it had to be gone over, systematizes.
weeded out, eta.
1. At the Library of Congress the difficulty was that our representative
e, Miss Shane, was not cleared for Secret until the middle of
December so that I could not explain to her the exact nature of the
project. In addition to that she has two Russian-speaking assistants
who cannot be told anything at all. The result of their activity was
acquisition of some material which may be quite valuable in some
other research on Russia but irrelevant so far as the present project
is concerned.
The technique for collecting material has been the followiig:
(a) In personal contacts, about once a month, more specific
direction is given and criticisms or approval of material
obtained is offered.
(b) From time to time (about once a month) I write Miss Shane
directives listing specific items to be looked for. These
are gathered by me in reading pertinent Russian literature,
Monthly List of Russian Accessions, etc.
Miss Shane decides which material is of sufficient value to
be microfilmed wholly, or only the table of contents, or
merely to report the title. Generally speaking her judgment
is good, but once in a while I have to request the whole
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book to be microfilmed inateaed of merely the table
of contents, *to.
(d) Each week we receive from the Library of Congress
one or more microfilms with the table of contents
of each article or book typewritten on Oza paper.
In general, I should say the group at the Library of 0ongreess
is doing good work with perhaps 90% of reported material being
pertinent to the project.
PROCESSING OF SOVBaE
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the incoming material, both from the Library
see and other places has to be systematized so as to make It
2 ' R`'ai for use. The microfilms have to be checked against the
these cards have try' 1 4duced and items segrega%-~d
according to various topics. has been in charge of
this work, and e!t5 Msent time the situation is as follows:
2&began work on this project,
possessed approximately 90 rolls of 35 mm.
icrofilmed Russian geodetic, cartographic and geographic
infozrmation. As agreed to in the terms of the contract,
lists of these data were J_q*$Alto the contracting
office in the form of two .bibliographic card copies
for each 2~"A' dfa ch film. Since the inception of this
project, holdings in terms of miorofiled rolls
has increased to No. 148. Bibliographic cards for each of
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these have been forwarded up to and including )(icrofilm.
No. 125. Similar cards for the remaining films are
available here, awaiting request for shipment.
2. -ch item on each film is crose-referenced according to
four Classifications; namely, by author (or editor), by
subject matter, by geographical area and by publishing
agency,
In addition to the above, complete tables of conten
for each volume of those serials and periodicals most
pertinent to this project, are being collected.
The mechanics of the organization of the total mass of material
may be of interest. Items appeaarin;
ofilma received here
are subjected to a preliminary examination and comparison, using a
microfilm reader. Items of evident and immediate interest are tun
enlarged and printed on paper and filed in folder envelopes. Prom
a study of these items, selections for future study, translation,
review or abstracting are made and listed under subject headings
as listed in the contract. Priorities for each item are likewise
established at this time and these items are then made available
to various experts for their judgment of the contents of the article
or articles submitted to them.
In the above connection a most unfortunate aircumstance has been
our inability to use the new reproduction machine. We have had to
on an old and slow method of individually IWMawpsch item
addition, to compete with other demands
for the same machine.
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Still another difficulty in the lack of suitable pertsonne3-.
Na matter how a axeeful one is, mistake* are inevitable. t ,tte
often the person turns out to be quite eompetent in hi
not suitable for the purposes of the project. idef l
competent both as to 1a=,. 'e and subject and having e
aground to unravel the incredible complexities of Russia orni-
nation of science, is very rare.
,evert 3 competent trtns-
lators who are rapidly learni Russian technical terminology,
but we find that there is no accepted Ruesiau-English terminolocy
in cartography and geodesy. A perusal of translations coming to
us from various sources (mostly Air Force) will make this :point
quite cleet .r. .fie have to start our own Ruesiai -English dictionary
at geodetic term which will be one of the bb-products of thin t:?or'k?
Tax MO
Certain general it
d to in order to 'eecr p
project directed toward a goal. rather than losing itself in a maze
of detail. Such {general lines mEW 'be formuiated as follows3
A. organization of Russian geodesy and carto
This ingolveess
1. The history of activities of such institutions an GUG=At
at least since 1917-
29 The most recent organization of subdivisions o
with their funetions? personnell, level of performance.
relation to other mapping manias, etc.
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fi!odeg and carte a .
1. Motion of the terrestrial pole and Its geodetic aspect.
Determination of time and longitude,
Ins t ntat o ,
1. The quality of Russian
2. Muir dependence on the outsids world,
D. ftscellaneous
This takes care of items that seem to be of immediate
interest to the sponsors of the project. They are usu .ly
based on information supplied to us by the Air Force and
aonsidered by them as not generally available in this country,
Most of the work has been along the problems mentioned in
of fundamental ismportance in Russian geodesy and, in facts
its distinctive feature.
It should be noted that up to the press
rk
hods in Russian geodesy and cartograp
clear that subject 3 3. is
studied by us has either been obtained by us from various libraries,
or Is of open- aurae character. No reports obtainedby agents, by
interrogation of refugees, etc, have been submitted to us. In faat,
up to the present time we have had our hands full of Russian material,
and probably it would be beat to concentrate on this phase, at least
sources will then become necessary.
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As emphasized by me in conferences with the sponsors of
the project I am fully convinced that we have not yet wholly
exploited the possibilities of the Merman captured documents
in this country or abroad. There is. o doubt in mY
mind that many important documents have been misplaced:, mis-
laid.or overlooked and-have generally gathered dust in
document deposits scattered throughout the Armed Services.
P M IMINA,RY TZOKNIOAL REPORTS
Several technical reports have been submitted since the inceptio
of this project. The fact that each of these reports is preliminary
only in character can not be overemphasized .25 f ion submitted in
aoh represents only that data available a'.
the report was written and, as naa,
follows, preliminary evaluations
and analyses only could be justified.. Additional information continues
to become available on each subject described in these reports and will
be incorporated at a later date in more finalized form.
A. Technical Reports emanating from this Laboratory are described as
falling into one of two categories. Reports with an "As classification
refer to items appearing in the subject list of the first priority as
listed in the contract. Items classified in the sBs category refer to
second priority items of the contract. Reports are also given a
consecutive numerical designation, (Al, A2, B1 and 32, etc.)
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1. Al, Geodetic Gravin1etry in the U.S.S.R.
2. A2, The Problem of Reliability of Russian Maps.
eports submitted to date include;
Deformation of the Crust of the Earth sad
Terrestrial Magnetism.
In addition, several verbal requests for factual information or
of
evaluations have been answered through the medium4ersonal letters to
the project officer.
OSED OmATJo]FS FOR THE PERIOD
1. February - 1 May, 1952
A. Processing and evaluation of material will continue. It is expectel
that approximately 49 articles will be translated during this period and
condensations or abstracts of about the same number will be completed.
At the present time, exhaustive study of the large number of papers
ing with the educational, and with the publishing aspects in the mapping
fields, is being carried out. A well-documented but preliminary report
dealing with these fields should be available within a month or so.
B. Travel proposed in connection with the work of this project is
tentatively planned as foll2' t1A5a1
1. Second week of March - 0M
on a routine trip to Washington, R.G. and to
'fork City.
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Washington, D.C. for routine coordination with the
project officer and with our Library of Congress group.
I. List of translations made at the Laboratory (Series A).
2. List of available translations made by other agencies (Seri 3s B).
of condensations, svaa1 ations. ant c
reviews (Series 0).
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LIST OF TRANSLATIONS
Series A (made at MCRL) February 19, 1952
No. 1 - G. K. Zubakov and P.S. Zakatov: Training in Geodesy in the
U.S.S.R., Sbornik NTiPS, gyp. 6, 1944, pp. 49-56.
V No. 2 -? L. V. Sorokin: Gravimetricheskaya Razvedka (Gravimetric Prospecting)
pp. 31104 in the book by L.V. Sorokin and others "Kars Geofizieheskikh
Metodov Razvedki Neftyanykh Mestorozhdeniy", 1950-
0- 3 - Resolution of the Board of G.U.G.K. and order for carrying out this
resolution .. Sbornik NTiPS, Vyp. 16, 1945, pp. 79-95-
No. 4(a) - A. N. Baranov: Geodesy and Cartography during the war for the
Fatherland
(b) - S. G. Sudakov: The most urgent problems in the Improvement of
the Fundamental Geodetic Network in the U.S.S.R.
v (c) - F. N. Krasovskiy: The main Geodetic Foundation in the U.S.S.R.
Sbornik NTiPS, Vyp. 2, 1943, pp. 1-43
V.V. Danilovs Requirements to be met by a textbook of Higher Geodesy
Sbornik NTiPS9 Vyp. 20, 1945, pp. 95-93-
No. 6 K.A. Kulikov, Motion of the Poles of the Farth and the Variation
of Latitude -. Uspekhi Astr. Nauk, Vol. 5, 1950.
No. 7 ?. Socialistic competition for higher quality of topographic--geodetic opera-
tions. Leading article (unsigned)
Sbornik NTiPS, Vyp. 24, 1949, pp. 5-5.
VNo. 5 L. I. Perkis, Construction of vertical photogrammetrie networks
by the grapho-analytical method.
Sbornik NTiPS, Vyp. 24, 1949, pp. 27-35.
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