MATYAS RAKOSI UNIVERSITY FOR HEAVY INDUSTRY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100110109-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 109
• Publication Date: February 25, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY, Hungary
SUBJECT Mr?tyhs Ha'kosi University for Heavy Industry
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The present, 1e~,rg~ -sc i d~.^velopn nt of thy;" Hun r r:ian h ; a.vy industries
automat:i.cn:liy demandz, the ;i,nc:.rcrr;zse of a t. i.r~ined technical elite, The existing
Hungarian univcrs,itit~k~ would not., be s.bie to train a sufficient number of young
t%ecl~ni.c al. e>~ 3,n *r~r ,,, Ther fort, the government decided, naturally with Soviet
approvsl, to inc.rez-,.-fi,s* the number of for p'I. c'tical :Aciences arl to
build near Miskolc, in the vicinity of the most Important and largest Hungarian
he~i,vy and mllit,ary combine y,, the Uni:vers.inty for Heavy Irnd.uztries,
1950, and this summer 595, 7 the first 236 engineers were graudated from here.
Construction is et1il going evn w".11 great speed About 3.5 km from Mi zkole on the
rod leading to L=uth "R" ,uza~wr:.~,, "11h.p uaniverayity hnn.,z, Its own new trolley-bu:~ line
also. Lectures beg .n in 1950 in .I =;e(luestxe9~t- d bvIld.irag which fora rwly hsa.d
been. R. high school run by pr?ir:.st w .
'"rice this time the govt 'nmen.t, with. "1,.zscowlr:s knowiedg , has s e t up a pY"o;ra.m
r?eq;uir. ing In investment of 290 mi L fora forint ; for educational purposes, The
major part will go to the tdniver ity Lor Heavy Industries project, the other to H.
contemplated project of a University fa,r Heavy hemic;;,1 .14 dustries at Veszprem.
4. By 2,953 twelve chairs were set up at iM .iskoic , and by the end of the, last term
1322 students were enrolled. in 1'7 chaJ_,,,s. The university will consist of three
faculties: Faculty of Mining, Yacuity of Metallurgy; vacuity of mechanic'-ii.
engineering. According to plan,; ,rich faculty will have 6 or 7 chairs by the time
the whole project is comDieted. At preaent the following chairs have been set
up:
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Within the Faculty of Mining:
Geology
Geophysics
Mining
Mining engineering
Oil prospecting
Training of personnel for training schools for mining technics.
The last is an independent educational institute for the training of
teachers and experts for the lower grade mining and other specialized schools.
b. Within the Faculty for Metallurgy:
Iron
Metallurgy
Non-ferrous metallurgy
Smelting
Alloys
Heat
Energy
Science of foundry industry. This one has not yet been set up.
c. Within the Faculty of Mechanical I'ngineering:
Production technology. The other 5 or 6 desks have not yet been set up.
The rector of the University is Stephen Sa'lyi. Other professors known to our
informant are Elemer Nagyr professor of mechanical engineering,and Zoltan Horvath,
professor of metallurgy.
in'connection with further construction, it is planned that the university will be
a small town in itself when completely ready. There will be six large apartment
blocks connected with the university and other buildings. The whole complex
should be ready by 1954, by which time 3,500 apartments ought to be ready also.
Number of enrolled students is expected to be around, 2,400, who will live in luxury
during their studies at the university. They will be housed in individual small
apartments in order to secure complete comfort for them to be able to pursue their
studies undisturbed. Further, clubi.ike fraternity houses will be built for them.
But first of all a large sized technical library will be established, which of
course will mainly contain technical books of the Soviet heavy industries, but
in the interest of production technical books of the western hemisphere will
Rlso be admitted.
In order to further indoctrination, the University City will also have its own
theater and movie. There will be a shopping center and. several sports fields
are also planned. It is, however, more important to build the planned laboratories,
first of all for chemical physics, and experiment-shops. Many and, very up-to-date
designing halls are under construction.
In order to accelerate and to facilitate the acquirement of practical sciences;
new instruction methods have been Introduced., and the professors are to set up the
closest possible cooperation with the workshops of the surrounding heavy industry
plants, the work of which has to be followed up on the spotlir the prospective
engineers. The students are compelled to get acquainted with the best foremen and
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foster their connections. Thus it is easier to get acquainted with the
machinery and. also.the still,missing experimental machinery is likewise re-
placed. The technical training of these prospective engineers of the
Peoples Democracies is therefore undeniably easier and more practical, even
if we take into consideration that up to now L19537.the..studies at the Miskolc
University for Heavy Industries resemble very much a "quickie cvurbc
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