DAILY SNAP. SOVIET NEWS ABSTRACTS PUBLICATION.

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• Publication Date: April 11, 1983
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FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
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Title: NEW RESEARCH SHIP "MOLCHANOV"
TO WORK IN NORTH ATLANTIC Jl'
Primary source: Vodnyy transport,
March 31, 1983, No. 39 (8534), p. 4,
col. 3
Entire text: A new vessel which has
been added to the scientific fleet of
the Murmansk Territorial Administra-
tion for Hydrometeorology and Monitor-
ing of the Natural Environment is
named after Professor P. A. Molchanov,
a founder of Soviet aerology. This
new scientific ship has arrived in
Murmansk after completing its fifth
experimental cruise.
Following a brief anchorage in its
home port, the "Professor Molchanov"
will make its first working cruise to
the North Atlantic. It will take part
in a national program of research of
atmosphere-ocean interactions which
are important for the study of changes
in our planet's climate.
STUDY POST IN SAYAN MOUNTAINS
tion)
Primary source: Gudok, March 30,
1983, No. 74 (17509), p. 4, cols. 1-2
Entire text: The Institute of Earth
Magnetism, the Ionosphere and ro a-
'V'gation o Radio Waves ot the
v~V Aca emy of Sciences' Siberian Branch
rj- .is called the Siberian outpost. of
solar science and study of near-earth
space. This institute is located in
Irkutsk Oblast.
A large contingent of science asso-
ciates and engineers works here. They
have equipment for conducting studies
in a number of fields.
Daily SNAP
The institute's solar observatory
is located in the Sayan Mountains. It
is equipped with horizontal telescopes
and other instruments for studying the
rotation and evolution of the solar
corona, as well as configurations of
magnetic fields in sunspots. An in-
stallation for the study of winds and
wave processes in the upper atmosphere
is located in the Badary area in the
Sayan foothills. This installation
automatically records radio signals
reflected from the ionosphere.
(Two photographs are given showing
the observatory in the Sayan Mountains,
and C. M Ph - a senior laboratory
assistant, preparing the mirror of a
solar telescope for observations.)
Title: NEW FIREPROOF, LIGHTWEIGHT
INSULATING MATERIAL FOR SHIPS
Primary source: Gudok, March 30, 1983,
No. 74 (17509), p. 4, col. 8
Entire text: A material which has
been developed at the Urals Scientific
Research Institute for the Designing
of Building-Materials Enterprises
(Uralniistromproyekt) possesses remark-
able properties. It is one-fifth as
heavy as water, and it is completely
incombustible. A panel of this mate-
rial only 2 centimeters thick resists
heat as well as a wall of brick with
a thickness of one and a half bricks.
To demonstrate this, Candidate of
Technical Sciences G. Tobol'skiy, the
head of a laboratory, brought a gas
torch almost all the way up to such a
panel. He told me to touch its oppo-
site side with my hand. Even after
five minutes I could feel no heat, al-
though a flame with a temperature of
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plans for plotting safe navigation
routes in polar regions, on the
basis of noises of ice fields.*
*See also the Daily SNAP, February
1, 1984, p. 2, col. 2
Title: SOLAR OBSERVATIONS AT I
INSTITUTE (caption)
rimary source: Sotsialisticheskaya
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1) ndustriya, January 26, 1984, No. 21
(4412), P. 4, cols. 4-5
Entire text: The Irkutsk stitute
of Earth Magnetism, the Ion ere
and t e ronaoaYinn o f P nLi,ves
of the USSR Academy of Sciences'
Siberian Branch is called a Siberian
outpost for studies of the sun and
of near-Earth space.
(The photograph shows a telescope
for observations of the sun in one
of the institute's laboratories.)
Title: HIGH-STRENGTH, RADIATION-
RESISTANT POLYAMIDE FILM
Primary source: Sotsialisticheskaya
industriya, January 26, 1984, No. 21
(4412), p. 4, col. 5
Entire text: In outward appearance,
there is no difference between ordin-
ary cellophane and a new brand of
polyamide film which has been devel-
oped by the "Plastmassy" Research
and Production Association in Moscow.
This film has far outstripped its
predecessors from the standpoint of
'inner' qualities, however. It can
withstand temperatures in a range
from minus 200. to plus 300 degrees
with no change in its basis proper-
ties, for example. Film only 40-60
microns thick is capable of holding
a weight of hundreds of kilograms.
Moreover, the innovation is resistant
to ultraviolet radiation, does not
burn in fire and does not dissolve
in organic solvents. These valuable
'qualities' of the film have attracted
the attention of specialists in vari-
ous branches of the economy.
Primary source: Sovetskaya Belorus-
siya, February 1., 1984, No. 27
(16011), p. 2, cols. 4-7
Extract: The first machine tool of
the 'machining center' type with
numerical programmed control has
been manufactured at the Gomel'
Machine-Tool Building Plant imeni
Kirov. This machining center does,
by itself, things that it takes as
many as 10 machine tools to do: it
drills, mills, bores.
Machines of this type will become
the basis for fully automated pro-
duction facilities. The machining
center can take the place of as many
as eight of its fellow machine tools
in certain operations. Suffice it to
say that its tool holder accommodates
30 different tools, which are ganged
automatically at the proper moment
in accordance with a program stored
in the machine's memory. Blanks
are changed in the same fashion.
The operator has only to monitor
instrument readings and the condi-
tion of tools. But these tasks, too,
will soon be turned over to the clever
machines by specialists of the Odes-
sa Design Bureau of Special Machine
Tools and by plant workers, through
whose efforts the new machining cen-
ter was developed. Designers, tech-
nologists and workers successfully
incorporated advanced ideas and tech-
nical solutions which have allowed
their innovation to be put in a class
with the best world models. The
machining center has had no counter-
parts in Soviet machine-tool build-
ing practice up until now. The in-
novation's merits are countless. I
should like nevertheless to note the
following. The machine tool has a
table that turns in two directions,
which allows a part to be machined
from five directions with just a
single mounting. And 'overhead'
securing of the blank allows the
task of automatic removal of filings
to be performed more efficientI .
(A photograph is given showing
workers assembling the new machine
tools in a production section of the
plant.).
Author: Shablyuk, A.
Title: MULTIPURPOSE N/C MACHINE
TOOLS FOR FULLY AUTOMATED PRODUCTION
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