RESULTS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES HELORUSSIAN SSR, 1948

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• Publication Date: January 20, 1950
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Monthly periodical
Moscow
Jul 1949
RESULT2 OF SCD TIFlC EEMARCH OF THE
ACADM OF SCIEICES B L0RUUSSIAA SSR, 194b
The conditions under which the activity of the Academy of Sciences Belo-
russian SSR was conducted in 19h8 were significantly different :rrm those of
194T, when the buildings of the Academy, destroyed by the German-Fascist in-
vaders had not yet been restored.. It was not until 15 Jrauai-y 1948 that the
left wing of the main building, encompassing about 6,000 cuulc meters, was
restored. Up to that time be entire academy was housed in, about 650 cubic
meters.
In the 1948 ply', high priority was given to the study of power resorcat
mid their utilization ..n the national economy.
The results of experimental research made by the Peat Inatitute revealed
that meciaai.a3. proce3aiig of peat v~hile winning cut peas. !,^prr T eol tr!-
weigbt and water abeorbtion. Technological plans for v-innsng cut peat of
higher quality were recomseaded. Work was conducted on the mechanization of
moping and the technology of drying fine pest, ana machines ens instxumew ^
were designed. The institute investigated the use of a p-acticai msoheuism
for digging up, turning and packing peat on an.indus-crial scale. Experimental
work conducted by the institute gave it &.basis for devigning a practical in-
dustrial machines which viwe tested during last year. The Paver Sector proposed
a method of drying very n ist pest by sacking part of the flue. Zases through
. layer of peat in a fuel charge. Experiments proved effective, and the seth-
od has been applie:i to high-capacity boilers.
iat 19tL, tl'o an s ey t-onducted s complex field expedition study of the
territory of the Poles'ye lowlande. The e.pe&iticL. furnished many new find-
ings :.n the sta4 of soil, meadow vegetation, and forest plants. As a re-
sult of the work of the expedition, the character of many regions or the
Poles- at tuma was asccitu. na , eapcci 1.1 of tads rich trial reserves of peat. At the same time vast areas of saali peat beds which
could be of value to agriculture were found.
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enable expansion of raw material resources for the sugar and alcohol industry
and also improve the feed sit;iat `cn in animal hn-abaauiry. It was established
that the seed potato grown on peat rolls possesses much better qualities in
comparison with tuners of the same variety grown on mineral soils. A etude of
hybrids, 11-22 and Z-2109, and the winter variety 690, which after 2 years of
testing in Minsk Oblast, show c a significant improvement over varieties of
wheat grown in other regions of the republic.
Wort ccepleted by the Institute for the MMchanization of Agriculture in
construction of a machine for removing roots of kok-sagyz is significant. The
required meapce-er for this operation is red ced by seven to eight times.
A method of s; er plentird of the potato, recou"andsd by Academician
T. D. Lysenko, was introduced on collective farms by the Institute of Biology,
an a method of combating the potato canker (until conversion to a canker--ce-
siatant variety). Th_re was developed and tested a conker-resistant, poto:o
variety, "White husbien'Barly," for cultivation in light sandy soils. The
Institute of Socialistic Agriculture developed several canker-resistant lines
of potatoes. In 1948, the institute also worked out the final details for
the single-row and double-row potato-harvesting machines, TEK 1 and TEK-2.
Wavy problems were worked out by the Department of Technical Sciences.
As a result of studies made by the Institute of Chemistry on reaction
kinetics i:i the decompositiou of solids, ana in the miactinn and polymorphic
transformation of these solids, a theory of stage devolopment of embryonic
centers of reaction and a theory of polymerization applicable to processes
leading to the development of organic glass were formulated. The Laboratory of
Physical Chemistry developed an absorption method of purifying penicillin.
The kinetics of the swelling of vulcanized rubber in mixed media were studied.
The Aobruysk wood combine developed facilities to conduct tests on the use of
lupine glues in the plywood industries. In the field of high polymeric com-
pounds, peat waste was studied for the possibility of obtaining products of
value to the notional enonosty. The wood chemistry division developed and iay.ro-
duced new technology for tar-turper?tine production.
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The Physicoterhni.cal Institute devele'l a series of methods for improving
the t
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ogy of the metal-processing and machine-building industries which
will be introduced in 1949. These include a method of mesa tic defectoscopy
the electric spark method of treaty- met--,, ms' a o:: for 's.ayrssving the
stamping of certain parts, particularly id the radio industry.
Valuable work in public health eras completed by the Institute of Theore-
tical Medicine. It developed max: methods of treating diseases of the nervous
system, as well as new nutritional media which provide a double output of peni-
cillin. The institute developed a method for preparing these media ?hi :h was
introduced at the Minsk Penicillin Plant.
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