NEWS ITEMS ON SCIENCE IN ORBIT COUNTRIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700180360-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 360
• Publication Date: May 25, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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? CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Orbit countries
SUBJECT Scientific - Miscellaneous
HOW
PUBLISHED Newspapers, periodicals
WHERE
PUBLISHED As indicated
DATE
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DATE OF
INFORMATION 1953-1954
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NESr"u ITEMS ON SCIENCE IN ORBIT COUNTRIES
Number 2
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SOVIETS DEVELOP NEW TYPE OF PEATIUT -- Rotterdam, Handels & Transport
Courant, 23 Mar 54
Soviet agronomists have 3eveloped a new strain of peanut for planting
north of the Caucasus hfountains and in the sot,tt,ern Ukraine. This strain is
said to produce not only twice as many nuts but also nuts with a higher oil
content.
A large number of machines have already been developed for peanut plant-
ing, cultive. Ong, harvesting, and processing.
NEW SOVIET ASTRONOMICAi. INSTRUN~NTS __ :,lma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya
Pravda, 4 Oct 53
Scientists at the astronomical observatory of Kiev State University have
begun observations with a new instrument to determine the transparency of the
atmosphere.
This instrument, one of many developed by the observatory's scientists,
will be used for observing the eclipse of the sun on 30 Tune 1954? The ob-
servatory's workshop is now making large and complicated mobile spectroscopes
which will be used to study the distribution of chemical elements in the sun's
atmosphere. The workshop is also building a huge stationary helioap~?ctroscope
for studying various physical phenome a on the sun under normal conditions.
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STERILITY IN BULGARIAN DOMESTIC ANIMALS _- Sliven, Slivensko Delo, 12 Feb 54
An article by Dr Stoyan Kutulov discusses the serious problem of sterility
of domestic animals in Bulgaria and measures for improving the raising of live-
etoek.
[Further details available.]
FIGHT AGAINST BRUCELLOSIS IN BULGARIA -- Turnovo, Horba, 13 Feb 54
An article by Dr E1. Neftyanova, senior scientific associate of a precinct
veterinary institute (rayonen veter. institut), discusses the sympt-~s and ef-
fects of brucellosis and the measures for combating it.
[Further details availabie.J
BULGARIAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY __ Sofia, Rabotnichesko Delo, 23 Feb 54
An article by Professor St. Tutsov, Docent E. Gerasimov, and assistant
M. Marinov, instructors at the Higher Chemical-Technological Institute, urges
the production of Poam glass on a pilot-plant scale.
Sofia, Rabotnichesko Delo, 23 Feb 54
An article by George Monev, chairman of the Scientific Section of In-
dustriai Chemistry of the Union of Scientific Research, reports on the efforts
to produce products such as cellulose, artificial fabrics, and chemicals from
wood and straw.
MODEL OF NOVOSIBIRSK HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATION -- btoscow, Bloknot Agitators,
Mar 54
A large model of the Novosibirsk Nydroelectric Power Station, comprising
the power station building, concrete spillway dam, earthen dam, navigable
canal, and three-chamber lock, as well as sectors of the river adjacent to
the complex, has been built by the All-Union Institute of Nydraulic Engineer-
ing to facilitate construction of the ~r~,act. This hydroelectric power
cer.