REMARKS ON SCIENTIFIC LABORATORY EQUIPMENT AT UNIVERSITIES AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTES

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1. in Moscow we visited the now branch of the Mesoow University. A large
percentage of the students study in the soienoes, but we did not visit
any of the laboratories there.
2. At Leningrad the Polytechnic Institute is a gaueral engineering, school,
that is, it has the different applied sciences As the main courseu of
study. We saw only those laboratories for elementary physics and chemistry.
3. At the Minsk Polytechnic Institute there was a laboratory for hydro-
power studies. It hid equipment for studying turbine construction, water
flow in rivers and dam construction. These items were all illustrated
by scaled down working models. Also, at Minsk there was a laboratory for
the study of the trainnission of electrical energy. Such devices as
high tension transformers and insulators were in use.
4. At Kiev University the only laboratory facilities were,
once again, those for use in the elementary physics an c . stry courses.
Such labs had no snnnt-.1 e u ;ment
5. At the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute we visited some machine construction
laboratories. These had mainly machines for metal finishing such no
lathes, milaing machines and drill presses. These were not the only
once in the shops though. We saw heavy{ machine shops where there was
much US Lend-Lease material which was recognizable no such by virtue of
having WPB numbers otemped on. Students were learning to dismantle and
put together heavy metal-working machinery. There was a laboratory at
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lCharkov for elementary chemical analysis, this had no particular equipment
except regular chemical glasawaxe and reagents. There was a heating
enalmeiaring laboratory which was equipped with various devices for studying
air circulation, ?entilat en and central heating construction. The
equipment vac th&trw ibh vo~ald .tae In: actual'\use~*-for ventilation, heating,
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In general, there is a lot of US-made equipment in all
universitibe^ezcept, probably, Moscow University.
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laburatorles. There' were some anslytic balances of both US and Soviet
manufacture (both of About the some quality). There were also small
minera7.ogtiOLI.emd ,Vloologicel museums in this school.
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