METEOROLOGICAL EDUCATION AND PRACTICE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2012
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: June 3, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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C NTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INF MATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR,
SUBJECT Meteorological Education and Practice
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT 50
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em=fid of Kharkov Engineering Hydro Meteorologi
ae To enter the Institute the,student must have completed 10 years of schooling
and be able to pass a competitive examination on the following subjects:
i. Mathematics, including intermediate algebra, plane and solid geometry,
and trigonometry
ii. Physics, including light, heat,, sound., electricity and magnetism, and
elementary mechanics
iii, German.
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However, during the years 1930-39 there were more openings at h Institute for
students than there were students. The school had to adver?ti to obtain a
sufficient number of students. About 1939 or 190 a tuition gee of three hundred
rubles per semester was charged.
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After 1939 a need for permanent factory workers and other a killed laborers was met
by dividing the students of the "middle schools", (the first 10 years of school)
into two groups. One soup was given a course which would lead only to in
or factory work, while the other group worked toward professional careers.
a t~ :fird group was probably added in 1941, composed of those who would
be c - osenx or the military services. Members of the Party decided which type of
course of instruction a child would take. No military training was given in the
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b, The course of study at the Institute was the same for both the hydrology and
the meteo ogy students during the first two years, and some basic courses were
given to both groups dtr"ing. the remainder of the five and one-half years. Included
in the list of sAbJects required of all students were the following:
i.. Mathematics a total of eight hundred hours.
Q. Chemistry - two semesters of the first year with two lectures per week of
two hours' d.uuration, and two laboratory periods each week, also of two
hours' duration. During the second year the sane amount of 05011-HUM
spent o; qualitative and quantitative. an.1-jaim.
iiid Physics total of four hundred. hours.
jTte n.s e at that time
not have its own laboratory for, physics, bunt used the laboratories of the
cchnieal Inst1?tute of Kharkov and of the Wersi?ty of H rkov.
iv. Uk ranian nguage tt; ho ;urss per week, for one year.
v. Physical Geography four hour per week for one year,
vi. Govan 'f,,ang e - taught for' fo years
vii. Political Economy two hours per veek during first year6
viii. History of Communist Party two hours per week, first year.
ix. two hours r week secod, year.
Dialectic Materialism two hours per week, third year.
xi. Leninism - two hours per week, fourth year
xii. lenlniwm; - two hours per week, fifth year.
xiii, Economic Policy of the USSR - two hours per week, fifth year.
Those who elected to We the
following.-
course in meteorology were required to awe
General Meteorology hours per week for two years.
Climatology and Cli rtography two hours per week for three
Microcl matology two hours per week for one cementer.
Dynamic Meteorology G six hours per week for one semester, then four ho
per week for two ss ssters.
Synoptic Meteorolo fovr hours per week, and part of the time six hours
per week, for five semesters.
Aerology - two houasper week, and part of the time four hours per week, for
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W periods of three and four months' fail-time work at some well-equipped
c. The full course at Kharkov Engineering Hydras Meteorologieal Institute covered
five and one-half years, with two:' ssem stern of four and one-half months' duration
each year.
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great % of, practicai
work was re a aes :. T n ,e o ;
so The I t to e grit ^,& about 60 r t dents per year-30,
kyArn-larr- The ; l vt by lly included about 325 pupil,# ,
There e:re IL the USSR ecb 1g te-rme , h t - teaar'o2ogi. technical wchcolsa ' Known
wry th ones at. MbAcoop cottovq and Feodo t0 It # intended that the
of the* yh ~. to teabAlel n# in, but In times of need now
of ` h were ev*xl. t itio ~ e&X pr fatAx,Jlomml. tecro ngiat(p . They eenteerell the
tecbni*,'1 mchaol in the "midX'Le The Course 1 te# three
a?mo Ind thtom eob olt, ,rLre pprmatt i work .M le_** t o were 'offered the in`
the l titutt'. Apt Y'llarkov, ar the eI Jer o ma* &t Mo c'owa atiidents receive. much of
their prat ti'ee&SJ..,, tr imis it t1aA :wthe: bur et x' rtnetion4am-
O of t a -tes ig )OV Xt",'il,ec coatmmuw .e't'ot"l s w`CA)ff'1t.
' he t mi t"f fm d:t eonde r three hxad??ed rubles,
fligbt be ^ .& ' ,a l.1tt In ,yet _ 0 rubles per hourq and lasted one and one-
half toars
he frontal and Pre sitei'P,,.''e aa.. ,1 Ot# wag bAaetli, t&1= With '~!ert't n ' p 6r-air chaF3xi6te,
much ordi , to the f..hodg need. at ,%&!, 'iii b ether leVa~di. (ot tM1~?ie.~i~ of the
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data were available!: for Use on these c~ eo. SRI sI ow g ni ca&ds, Kh r
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The Central Forecasting institute made general forecasts . and -me.ster yeea% for
the entire USSR,'which were: broadcast and, made'available tO the smaller;weather
offices, However,~the forecasts and analyses,of the individual forecast centers
did not necessarily have to agree with those sent out from.Momeov.
the military meteorological organize
n , e respons es and their dependence upon the Central Administration
of the Hydra Seteorological
'Service
The military airports had their cam. observers? and forecasters. The ob?e' ve.
Lions
taker, at a military airport 'were. used only by that airport, and were not transmitted
f o r use by others.Tha maps d r i t 'data
. were . awn us he same that were us~ At.rt
civilian stations. some research was carried on by the miii50X1-HUM
meteorologists concerning frontal slope, and the nature of thunderstorms, ' in are.
investigation of a cumr LO nimbus cloud one of two, piloted was killed, while the
other was seriously injured. The pilots lost control of the plane., and jumped
with their par , ~h ,Les to lank: eeve -t kilomete?s from the -place over'Which they
had juped0
c,0 Molchanov-vas-known to be working on a cheaper and lighter radiosondes and
striving to improve the humidity element. However, the one which he produced -
as an experimental model was too 'expensive because of the platinum used in it
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frontal passage', Soetiree the meteoro aph g attached to, a balloon and carried.
In Kharkov planes were not used for weather rep onnaieeaneei except with the'
mete ?ogr'aph flights. 0ccaeio .Ilys however, eight; or? nine radios'ondei would, be
release the.ewe "day order :tea determine chan
ee ina the at osphere with a
The Khaxkov Optical and ,-.to aphis Equipment Plants "Krds4nov," ors made
up entirely of work ;rei who were trained in a ?etormatory bobs rho bad run,
S .7 from home, or who had no here. Such :re pbt into the reformatory
whenever they could be as ht. Apparently it was quite common to have such
bsye r -arouxl the country like `oboe..
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exeelleht co res in medicine
the medical,school': w ,e aeparated from reef of the 'University.
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