PHYSICO - TECHNICAL INSTITUTE TOMSK, USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 1, 1961
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INTRODUCTION
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The Tomsk Physico-Technical Institute, sometimes referred to as the
Siberian Physico-Technical Institute, is located in the southern part of
Tomsk, USSR (56-29N 84-58E). It is apart of the Tomsk State University.
Good-quality, oblique photography of the institutional area, which includes
the Tomsk Polytechnical Institute and other institutions, was obtained in
According to reports, the Physico-Technical Institute is involved in
such fields of research as semiconductors, nuclear physics, dielectrics,
molecular physics, chemistry, and combustion. 1/2/ Very little colla-
teral information is available on its facilities. Only one ground photo-
graph could be obtained of any of the buildings of the institute, although
ground photographs are available of the main buildings of the Tomsk State
University and the polytechnical institute.
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GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Tomsk Physico-Technical Institute is reportedly divided into two
departments which are located about a mile apart (see Figure 1). Accord-
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block facing the south side of a municipal park (Revolution Square), and
the "Nuclear. Physics Department" is located "on the outskirts of the town"
near the south end of Timiryazevskiy Prospekt (street). 2/ A ground pho-
tograph in a Soviet publication of a building of the institute, used in con-
junction with the aerial photography, verified the location of a part of the
institute at the reported site of the Semiconductors Department. The
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end of Timiryazevskiy Prospekt which is probably the Nuclear Physics
Department indicated in the report. The appearance of the grounds around
the buildings suggests they are of comparatively recent construction.
Coordinates for the Semiconductors Department are 56-28-20N 84-57E,
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A description of the facilities at the two locations follows.
Semiconductors Department
There are only five buildings in the block in which the Semiconductors
Department is located (see Figure 2). A board fence apparently encloses
all of the buildings in the block, but trees prevent verification of this. The
area contains about 2.5 acres. The main building (No 1, Figure 2) is a
rather large, two-story structure with numerous vents on the roof. A
ground shot of this building taken from the park across the street is
shown in Figure 2. There are three small shedlike buildings and another
rather large two-story building which was called "House of Scientists and
Scholars" (No 2, Figure 2) in one report. 3/ Large trees obscure many
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FIGURE 2. SEMICONDUCTORS DEPARTMENT AND PHOTO OF MAIN BUILDING OF SEMICONDUCTORS
DEPARTMENT. (Date of photograph unknown)
of the details within the area, and it cannot be determined if the main
building is separated by a fence from the "House of Scientists and Schol-
ars." Figure 2 shows the layout of the buildings and their approximate
dimensions.
Probable Nuclear Physics Department
The Probable Nuclear Physics Department occupies approximately
20 acres near the south end of Timiryazevskiy Prospekt. The facilities
include a large, three-four story office-type building which possibly
includes classrooms and laboratories, a large two-three story laboratory
building, a probable heating plant, an electrical substation, and several
small buildings -- all enclosed by fencing. The layout of these facilities
The main research facilities are probably housed in the laboratory
building. This building has an irregular roof, with numerous vents, and
was probably designed to accommodate special equipment. The type of
equipment cannot be determined from the photography.
Electricity is provided by a substation with an estimated capacity of
35kv. The substation contains three transformers.
is shown in Figure 3.
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COMPARISON WITH OTHER SOVIET PHYSICO-TECHNICAL INSTITUTES
When compared with other physico-technical institutes such as those
at Leningrad and Kharkov, the Tomsk institute is rather small. This ap-
pears to be the case at least when compared with the reported size of the
Leningrad institute and with photography of the Kharkov institute. The
type of research activity carried on at such institutes usually does not
require facilities that are particularly distinctive in appearance -- they
have rather an "institutional" appearance, including the usual office and
laboratory buildings. There are exceptions to this rule, however, when
large special facilities are built, such as the 2-4 BEV Linear Electron
Accelerator of the Kharkov Physico-Technical Institute (see PIC/R-1003/61
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REFERENCES
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CIA. 25047, 2-57 (S)
USAF. US Target Complex Chart - Series 25, 0158-9999-0-25A,
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1. AIR, ATIC. TR-EL-17, Feb 54 (S)
2. CIA. CS-3,332-695, Oct 57
3. CIA. CS-3,338,447, Jan 58
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