CLIPS FROM SOVIET WEEKLY

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• Publication Date: July 20, 1985
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SPACE DISCOVERY
USED IN INDUSTRY
A discovery by a group of
Moscow and Kiev scientists In
space chemistry has been en-
tered into the USSR State Roster
of Discoveries, They have ex-
perimentally proved that the
tiniest particles of iron, titanium
and silicon which are' found
embedded.in the ?surface _layers
Of spate bodies, particularly, in
the friable lunar ground, - do not
get 'corroded r1 the terrestrial
atmosphere ,The results of this
research are 'already being used
In industry to raise the resis-
tance to corrosion Of metal pro-
ducts.
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I Riga, which sties's, in most ot its parts, the medieval
of ihe cite, is now being restored by the architects of
irk has been completed on a master plan for the recoil-
ion of the ancient part of the Latvian capital, which is
it 2,000 years old. On an mu of only 50 hectares are ,
Nitrated many structures of the past centuries. The
in age, particularly the last war, have changed the ap-
mce of many of them. But this process is reversible, as
tooPle o Riga have Moved, and again the chimes of the
red Saint Peters churCh (12th century), which was
syed by the nazis during the occupation of Riga, ring
iver the old city. The spire of the 17th-century church
h was also damaged during the years of occupation, has
been restored.
e colour scheme of the 15th-17th century streets is being
red. The former merchants' and artisans' guild _bulidtngs
house the Philharmonic Society and the Cultural Centre
3de unions.
reV tourists and organ music devotee', are allowed to
" square, with its famous Dome Concert Hall and niusenna
ilex of the 13th. 6th centuries. According to the. recon-
(ton plan, the old city will be closed to traffic,'
iTAL LACEWOR
[lege ot Novchirn In the
tonomous Republic has
n famous for its talented
iron workers, and this
is still alive and flour-
Jovcinm's craftsmen are
fulfilling an important
ram Moscow for the
Games, and the first
consignment of decorative cast
pig iron fencing for the Olympic
projects has already been deli-,
vered.
The factory which turned out
these fine products was founded
in the middle at the 18th century
and has full training facilities.
ARCTIC
THE SOUND OF THE
OCEAN lit.11/4.
Infrasonic waves made by the
tidal movements can new be re-
corded, for example, In Siberia, a
thousand kilometres away from
the nearest coast. This is pos-
sible thanks to a special device
designed at the Institu
Ea rt ' Irkutsk.
e nfrasonic waves too low to
be picked up by the human eat
are emitted by oceans and seas.
Very like the sound waves gen-
erated by active volcanoes,
earthquakes, hurricanes and
meteorites when they hit the
Earth, these waves last for long
periods and can travel several
times around the globe. Their
recordings are of practical Im-
portance since infrasonic waves
affect the tipper layer of the
Earth's atmosphere, the low-
sphere, which greatly influences
,-
the reliability of radio telecom- '
nications.
VIEWPOINT
tzessmazimananial
Multinational
Soviet music
By Fikret ANIIROV,
composer, People's artist
of the USSR
IN THE WAKE OF
ANCIENT MEDICINE
'There is nothing- on - earth
that could not serve as a medi-
cine," said the ancient Oriental
doctors,:having in mind the
boundless healing _properties of
nature. ,ScMntists at the Buryat
Branch Pf the Siberian ' Depart-
ment or the USSR Academy of
Sciensces. have deciphered -old
medical cures: that that now they
can be used on a wider scale.
The scientists discovered that,
ancient doctors knew very many
natural healing methods. They
were composed of between
twenty and several dozen pre-
parations of plant, animal or
mineral origin.
The Buryat scientists are now
studying the properties of some
200 species of plants mentioned
In ancient prescriptions.
RESEARCH FLEET
li(o Schmtdt icebreaker, a new addition to
!y of Soviet research vessels, will soon set
ter first working cruise in the severe con-
)! the Arctic.
being an icebreaker the Otto Schmidt is
tree time a special floating institute designed
act Investigations in the little-studied and
naccessible ice-bound regions of the Arctic
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I took part In the 6th Con,
gress of USSR composers that
has lust been held, and the
many professional discussions
and meetings there are still
fresh In my mind. The Congress
presented multinational Soviet
music on the broadest possible
scale. Every year more and
more musk-makers from all na-
tions of the Soviet Union are
joining our composers' unions?
as was said at the Congress,
these unions are rapidly growing
in the Ukraine, the Transcauca-
sian Republics, Central Asia,
Kazakhstan, the Baltic Republics,
Byelorussia. and ' Moldavia. The
composers' uniOns,..have been
set up only recently Art such.
Autonomous Republica,. as Ud-
murtia, TuvaKonit, and Yakutia
width means :that national mu-
sical schools ' are developing
there too. The nationat cern-
posers` unions are growing., not
only numerically but artistically
as well. Works pf music, rec-
ognized by our people and that
have - also gained- 'popularity
abroad, have been composed in
many places of our country.
I'm glad that Azerbaijan com-
posers have made' a.great con-
tribution .to Soviet music. All
the musical genres ttave been
mastered by the composers of
our Republic, which had prac-
tically, no ,professional musicians
before the Great October - Rev-
olution. It is quite different noWl
Who here, In this country, and
for that matter. who in musical
circles abroad, has not beard of
Kara Karaev, the Azerbaijan
composer, disciple of the great
Shostakovich? The, names of
Dzhoydzhet Gadzhiev,
Dzhangtr Dzhanglrov, Raid Gad-
zhiyev. Akshln Alt-Zade and
many other Azerbaijan com-
posers are well known both .in
our country and abroad.
, . .
The blossoming ot national
music In Azerbaijan, the same
as the rapid development of
Music In all national areas. Is
the result of the Leninist na-
Donal policy?fraternal mutual
assistance between all nations In
our country. Soviet multination-
al musical culture will go on
developing against a background
of active Interaction and mutu-
al enrichment of national cul-
tures.
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Spider farm's
valuable crop
A SPIDER farm in Alma-Ata, capital of Soviet
Kazakhstan, produces only 30 grammes of poison
annually, but this is enough for several medical
establishments in the country and for export.
The farm has some 16,000 scorpions, tarantulas and
spiders. Each of them live in a separate vessel,
since spiders are such outrageous individualists.
A spider's poison is more valuable than that of a snake:
one gramme is worth 20,000 roubles and it is us-
ed in preparing medicines, vaccines and serums.
To get just one gramme of poison it is necessary to
"milk" 13,000 scorpions.
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NEARLY 7,000 feet up in the
East Siberian mountains, this
solar coronagraph keeps regular
watch on the activity of the
outer layers of the Sun.
Operated by the Siberian In-
stitute of Terrestrial Magnetism,
Ionosphere and Wave Propaga-
tion, the instrument is used to
investigate the correlation of
solar activity and changes in
weather, radio reception and
other phenomena on Earth.
As well as co-operating with
the socialist countries in these
investigations, the institute
maintains regular exchanges of
information with all the major
capitalist countries. The in-
stitute has also hosted major in-
ternational conferences to
discuss progress in this field.
Top and left: Keeping an eye on the Sun up in the Sayany
mountains, East Siberia
New voyage for
non-magnetic ship
ONE of the world's few com-
pletely non-magnetic ships, the
Leningrad schooner Zarya, has
started a voyage to probe
mysteries of the Earth's
magnetic field.
The Zarya is built mainly of
wood and has had all its metal
parts carefully de-magnetised to
enable scientists to measure tiny
variations of magnetic field.
The first part of the present
voyage is an examination of the
"centennial variation" of the
magnetic field in the southern
Baltic, sponsored jointly by the
science academies of the Soviet
Union, Poland and the German
Democratic Republic.
Later, the schooner will sail
-to the Mediterranean to in-
vestigate magnetic anomalies in
the area between Italy, France
and Africa.
The results may help to solve
the problem of whether the
Mediterranean is the remnant of
an ancient ocean squeezed be-
tween the rock platforms of
Africa and Europe or whether
it is a new ocean in the process
of formation.
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