DAILY SNAP - COSMONAUTS CONDUCT MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS, REFUEL 'MIR' STATION

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• Publication Date: March 27, 1992
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March 27, 1992
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Title: COSMONAUTS CONDUCT MEDICAL EXPERI-
MENTS, REFUEL "MIR" STATION
Primary Source: Krasnaya zvezda, February
26, 1992, No. 46 (20733), p. 1, col. 6
Entire.Text: The first two days of Alek-
sandr Volkov and Sergey Krikalev's work
week are reserved for medical experiments,
the purpose of which is to obtain addition-
al information on the state of the human
organism in conditions of a prolonged space
mission. In accordance with the schedule
for work with the spaceship "Progress
M-11," tanks of the station have been re-
filled with fuel. Plans call for a correc-
tion of the orbit of the manned complex
"Mir" to be executed, using the cargo
ship's engine.
(SNAP 920327)
Author: Makhlin, M.
Title: IL-96-300 AND A-40 AIRPLANES IN
SINGAPORE AIR SHOW
Primary Source: Krasnaya zvezda, February
26, 1992, No. 46 (20733), p. 2, cols. 1-3
Extract: More than 1,100 participating
firms from 38 countries have assembled at
an International Aerospace Show which
opened in Singapore on February 25.
The Russian Ministry of the Aviation
Industry, Russia's Aviaprom (aviation in-
dustry) union and the "Aviaeksport" associ-
ation are showing the IL-96-300 airplane,
the A-40 "Albatros" flying boat and other
exhibits. In the estimation of local ob-
servers, these airplanes are quite competi-
tive, which makes the absence of other air-
craft in Singapore and their nonparticipa-
tion in demonstration flights all the more
regrettable.
The "Albatros" -- a multipurpose air-
craft which is used for rescue operations,
patrolling, firefighting and cargo and pas-
senger transport operations -- is being
shown in an antisubmarine version. A crew
under the command of Gennadiy Kalyuzhnyy
has demonstrated remarkable flight perfor-
mance, arousing the admiration of numerous
spectators. It is too bad that the air
show's organizers did not manage to clear
the waters next to the airfield of vessels
and small craft on the first day, so that
the "Albatros" could prove itself to be a
first-class seaplane. After all, it is the
only airplane in the world which does not
fear rather high waves.
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Author: Frolov, V., Candidate of Technical
Sciences
Title: FEATURES OF WESTERN ULTRAPRECISE
ANTIAIRCRAFT-MISSILE SYSTEMS
Primary Source: Krasnaya zvezda, February
26, 1992, No. 46 (20733), p. 3, cols. 3-7
Abstract: The article is a military-tech-
nical survey of Western air defense weapons
and equipment with advanced electronics,
phased-array antennas, noninertial control
of polar diagrams and other features which
ensure highly precise aiming and high tar-
get-kill probability. Experience of the
Persian Gulf war has demonstrated that such
weapons can be developed, according to the
author. The antenna system AN/MPQ-53 of
the "Patriot" surface-to-air missile com-
plex is praised in particular.
(SNAP 920327)
Author: Agapova, Yelena, correspondent
Title: MILITARY HOSPITAL'S TOMOGRAPHY
EQUIPMENT, FINANCIAL TROUBLES
Primary Source: Krasnaya zvezda, February
26, 1992, No. 46 (20733), p. 4, cols. 1-4
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lu Abstract: The article reports on the re-
sources and financial and personnel prob-
lems of the Main Military Clinical Hospital
imeni Burdenko in Moscow. A conversation
with General-Major of the Medical Service
Nikolay Leonidovich Krylov, head of the
hospital, is recorded.
The Hospital imeni Burdenko is said to
be the country's largest military hospital,
with 245 military physicians and 160 civil-
ian physicians on its staff and up to 1,500
patients. Last year, 5,648 surgical opera-
tions were performed here. The author re-
ports that a well-organized system for re-
ferring gravely ill patients to the hospi-
tal from other regions and republics of the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is
still operating. The hospital's divisions
include a radiology center with high poten-
tial and a hematology center which is the
only one of its kind in the armed forces.
The work of the hospital's departments of
abdominal surgery, neurosurgery and cardio-
surgery is praised in particular. Highly
complex transplants of bone marrow to pa-
tients with diseases of the blood were re-
cently performed here for the first time.
At the disposal of the hospital's physi-
cians are unique 'lasers, accelerators, hy-
perthermic units, ultrasonic and radionu-
clide diagnostic systems, and computerized
microanalysis equipment.
Colonel of the Medical Service Vladi-
mir Nikitin, chief x-ray technician of the
hospital, explained the operating princi-
ples of a computerized nuclear magnetic
resonance unit which recently went into op-
eration in the hospital's department of nu-
clear magnetic tomography. Through the in-
teraction of a magnetic field with the pro-
tons of hydrogen nuclei, this unit enables
a physician to examine internal organs of a
patient without the aid of x-radiation and
radiopaque substances. The tomograph is
said to be the only one of its kind in the
armed forces and the most powerful in the
CIS. It raises diagnosis at the hospital
to an absolutely new level.
Commenting on the hospital's present
difficulties and their causes, Krylov
pointed out that the CIS' armed forces have
no budget as yet, while the cost of trans-
plant and other surgery, hospital care,
donor blood and medical equipment and prep-
arations is soaring. The hospital needs
almost 100 more staff physicians than it
has at present, but there is a shortage of
housing for military medical personnel in
Moscow. Military medical officers now earn
only 1,500 rubles a month, on the average,
and technical personnel who tend unique
equipment are underpaid. If conditions
fail to improve, the hospital may be forced
to charge some of its patients for its ser-
vices. Krylov is personally opposed to
this, chiefly because many people who re-
quire treatment for serious conditions can-
not afford it.
Three photographs are given showing a
scanner in the department of nuclear mag-
netic tomography; and N. Krylov and V. Ni-
kitin.
(SNAP 920327)
Title: RSFSR ACADEMY OF TRANSPORTATION
ANNOUNCES MEMBERSHIP VACANCIES
Primary Source: Sovetskaya Rossiya, Octo-
ber 30, 1991, No. 206 (10657), p. 3, col. 1
Abstract: The article is an announcement
by the RSFSR Academy of Transportation of
vacancies for membership in the academy.
There are 57 vacancies for full members and
158 for corresponding members. The vacan-
cies are listed by departments of the acad-
emy. Among the departments are physical-
technical problems of transportation; reli-
ability, ecology and safety of transporta-
tion; and theory and technology of trans-
portation systems.
(SNAP 920327)
Title: SORBENT "IKhANT" FOR TREATING VIC-
TIMS OF IRRADIATION
Primary Source: Narodnaya gazeta, December
4, 1991, No. 233 (18455), p. 2, cols. 7-8
Extract: It was already clear at the very
beginning that a therapeutic preparation
had been obtained which could compete with
homosorbents [sic] based on activated car-
bon.
A sorbent was synthesized in Doctor of
Chemical Sciences Dzhuraboy Khalikov's lab-
oratory at the Tadzhik Academy of Sciences'
Institute of Chemistry (IKhANT). This sor-
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bent is called IKhANT. The preparation was
perfected at the Medical Institute imeni
ibn Sino. Here, a medical specialist, Pro-
fessor Mukhtar Kadyrovich Muradov, came to
the aid of the chemists. They were jointly
in charge of the testing of IKhANT. When
the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power
Station happened, radiation-sickness spe-
cialists became interested in this prepara-
tion.
A new series of tests was required.
One group of dogs was irradiated with the
same number of roentgens as that received
by people who had spent a long time in the
accident area, while for a second group
this dose was doubled, creating a cata-
strophic irradiation situation. IKhANT
helped in the first case, and all the ani-
mals recovered. In the second case, it was
ineffective.
The research continues. Great hopes
are placed on IKhANT. After all-Union
testing, it has returned again to Dushanbe.
The chair of anesthesiology and resuscita-
tion headed by M. Muradov has become the
base facility for conducting new medical
tests.
But IKhANT is healing even now. At
Clinical Hospital No. 5, 60 patients were
brought out of a serious condition with the
aid of this homosorbent.
For the time being, the preparation is
being made at the Institute of Chemistry,
in the laboratory of biomedical polymers,
which is headed by Doctor of Chemical Sci-
ences Dzhuraboy Khalikov.
(A photograph is given showing Doctor
of Medical Sciences Abdumadzhid Vakhidov;
Abduvasid Rakhimov, a graduate student; and
a nurse using the sorbent to treat a pa-
tient in serious condition.)
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gineering Physics Institute, and condo-
lences are expressed to the family, rela-
tives and friends of the deceased.
(SNAP 920327)
Title: V. G. VOSKOBOYNIKOV (obituary)
Primary Source: Vechernyaya Moskva, Febru-
ary 20, 1992, No. 35 (20676), p. 5, col. 7
Extract: Viktor Grigoryevich Voskoboyni-
kov, a metallurgist and eminent scientist,
has died.
The death announcement is made with
deep regret by the Central Scientific Re-
search Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy ime-
ni Bardin, and condolences are expressed to
family and friends.
(SNAP 920327)
Title: M. V. VOLKENSHTEYN (obituary)
Primary Source: Vec ernyaya Moskva, Febru-
ary 21, 1992, No. 36 (20677), p. 4, col. 7
Entire Text: Mikhail Vladimirovich Volken-
shteyn, an eminent scientist in the field
of molecular biophysics and a corresponding
member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
(RAN), died on February 18 of this year at
the age of 79, following a grave and pro-
longed illness.
The death announcement is made with
deep regret by RAN, its Division of Bio-
chemistry, Biophysics and Chemistry of
Physiologically Active Compounds, and its
Institute of Molecular Biology imeni Engel-
gardt, and condolences are expressed to the
family and friends of the deceased.
(SNAP 920327)
Title: N. G. VOLKOV (obituary)
Primary -ource: Vechernyaya Moskva, Octo-
ber 25, 1991, No. 212 (20596), p. 4, col. 7
Entire Text: Doctor of Physical-Mathemati-
cal Sciences, Professor Nikolay Grigorye-
vich Volkov, an eminent scientist, has died
at the age of 52.
The announcement of the untimely death
is made with deep regret by the Moscow En-
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