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This article examines the planning of scientific research in the context of Soviet economic reform, emphasizing the distinctive features that separate science from industrial and agricultural planning. It argues that effective planning must integrate research with national economic needs, financing,…
This paper examines the methodological problem of understanding science as a direct productive force, a theme derived from Marx and debated within Marxist philosophy and science studies. It criticizes views that reduce science either to social consciousness alone or to a simple practical rule of act…
This article examines how American functionalist sociology, especially the work of Talcott Parsons and Robert K. Merton, interprets education as a social institution amid the expanding social role of schooling and higher education. It situates these theories within broader changes associated with sc…
This article examines American sociological interpretations of the Soviet higher education system as part of a broader anticommunist ideological struggle. Drawing on Marxist-Leninist theory and critiques of positivism and pragmatism, it argues that American sociologists formally claim empirical neut…
This article examines the aesthetic education of Soviet students in evening and correspondence higher education who study while remaining in the workforce. Arguing that existing comprehensive educational programs were oriented mainly toward full-time students, it uses questionnaire data from industr…
This article examines the Soviet student construction detachment, or “third labor semester,” as a form of productive labor connected with the training of future specialists. Drawing on sociological surveys and examples from Tomsk, Kiev, and Novosibirsk student brigades, it argues that well-organized…
This article examines how ideological and political work in Soviet higher education should be planned as part of a scientifically organized system of student education. Drawing on Marxist-Leninist principles and experience at Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, it argues that such work should not be treate…
This article argues for a methodological foundation for organizing student research work in higher technical education, moving beyond descriptive accounts toward a systemic theoretical analysis. It situates student research as a subsystem within university science, engineering education, national sc…
This article examines student learning in higher education as a form of academic labor rather than only as instruction, independent work, or methodology. It argues that the effectiveness of education depends on the student’s active value relation to learning, including attitudes toward knowledge, sk…
This article examines long-term programs and plans for student upbringing in Soviet higher education, treating them as an important instrument for integrating ideological, professional, scholarly, and personal development. Drawing on programs from several major universities and institutes, it identi…
This paper reports laboratory determinations of the compressibility factor and formation volume factor of oil from the Klyuchevskoye field in Tomsk Oblast, using samples from well 61 in the Upper Jurassic Vasyugan suite at reservoir temperature. Measurements on a UNNP-2M apparatus show that oil comp…
The paper examines the role of the critical path in network diagrams used for planning and managing geological exploration work. It argues that the usefulness of identifying a critical path and time reserves depends on whether the resources assigned to the work are limited or unlimited, rather than …
This paper examines the chemical characteristics of the Chezima gabbro-plagiogranite complex in northeastern Gornaya Shoria, a small Upper Cambrian to Ordovician intrusive assemblage dominated by granites and plagiogranites with associated gabbroic, hybrid, dike, contact-metamorphic, and metasomatic…
This paper characterizes intrusive magmatic complexes in the northeastern part of Mountain Shoria, where small massifs form an arc-shaped chain along the mobile zone north of the Mrass median massif. Using field relationships, petrographic descriptions, absolute-age constraints, and chemical analyse…
This paper examines the complex hydrogeological conditions affecting underground development of the Osinovskoye coal deposit in Kuzbass, where water-bearing Jurassic deposits overlie productive coal measures and have caused repeated sudden groundwater inrushes. On the basis of geological, tectonic, …
This study examines whether bottom-hole heating is suitable for increasing oil inflow in the Klyuchevskoye field by measuring oil viscosity under varying reservoir pressures and temperatures. Using high-pressure viscometry, the authors found that viscosity increased with pressure, but not proportion…
This paper proposes a metamorphic hypothesis for the origin of oil, positioned between organic and inorganic explanations. It argues that organic material in sedimentary rocks, including dispersed carbonaceous matter and coal beds, can be buried by folding or isostatic subsidence to depths where hig…
This paper examines objections to the continental drift hypothesis that sought to explain paleomagnetic discrepancies by proposing multiple ancient magnetic fields rather than movement of landmasses. It reviews paleomagnetic evidence from North America, Eurasia, India, and the Iberian Peninsula, arg…
This paper evaluates the Balei ore field from the standpoint of geophysical prospecting, focusing on the Balei and Taseevo gold deposits and related tasks of lithological mapping, tectonic tracing, ore-body detection, and possible stratigraphic correlation. It argues that direct surface detection of…
This paper examines how groundwater conditions and permafrost affect electrical prospecting results in the Baley ore district. Drawing on hydrogeological subdivision of the area and known relations between rock resistivity, water saturation, salinity, grain size, fracturing, and freezing, the author…
This paper examines the geochemical characteristics of alkaline rocks in the Semenovsky massif of the northeastern Kuznetsk Alatau, a small multiphase intrusive body composed of melteigites, bereshites, theralite rocks, nepheline monzonites and syenites, dolerites, and alkaline syenites. Using miner…
This article examines the mineralogical characteristics of gold ore deposits in the Irokinda-Kindikan ore field of the South Muya Range, hosted by Archean metamorphic rocks near the Kilyan fault zone. On the basis of field observations, microscopic study, and spectral analyses, it describes vein, hy…
This paper examines the formation of granitoid complexes in Gornaya Shoria, emphasizing the role of magmatic replacement in addition to intrusive processes. Using field relations, petrographic transitions, contact features, and examples from the Asyr, Lebed, Sadrin, and Verkhnekondoma massifs, it ar…
This paper examines antimony and mercury mineralization in the northern Tom-Kolyvan folded zone of southern Tomsk Oblast, focusing on its structural and lithological controls. Drawing on field observations, earlier prospecting results, drilling, geophysical evidence, and mineral findings in primary …
This paper examines evidence for a pre-Tarzhulian hiatus in Upper Precambrian sedimentation on the eastern slope of the Kuznetsk Alatau and the Batenev Range. Drawing on field observations from the Son River basin and related sections, the authors identify angular unconformities, basal conglomerates…
This paper examines hydrothermal wall-rock alteration adjacent to gold-quartz veins in the Irokinda ore field, with particular attention to the Yurasovskaya-II vein. Using petrographic descriptions, chemical analyses adjusted for porosity, and semiquantitative spectral data, the authors compare fres…
The paper characterizes the Bakchar oolitic iron ore deposit within the West Siberian iron ore basin, emphasizing its unusually reduced stratigraphic thickness and the close juxtaposition of four ore horizons from the Turonian to Eocene interval. On the basis of lithologic, facies, geochemical, and …
This paper examines how operating conditions affect the selectivity of organic compound synthesis from carbon monoxide and water vapor over a cobalt, thorium catalyst. Experiments at atmospheric pressure under isothermal conditions varied temperature, space velocity, reactant ratio, carbon monoxide …
This note studies coefficient sequences in expansions with respect to seminormalized bases in uniformly convex and uniformly smooth Banach spaces, with special attention to Hilbert spaces. It proves upper and lower norm estimates in terms of sequence norms, derives a stability theorem for bases in u…
This paper addresses the programming of complex scientific and technical typesetting in which a single line may contain multiple typefaces, point sizes, styles, and graphical bases. It formulates line-length relations for minimum and maximum interword spacing, extends them to account for erroneous c…
This paper examines the design of frequency-controlled systems combining a semiconductor converter with an asynchronous gyroelectric motor, focusing on limiting current harmonics and rotor overheating across a wide frequency range. It develops a closed-loop current-shaping converter using two-positi…
This paper examines losses caused by internal casting defects in squirrel-cage rotors of three-phase asynchronous motors and argues for flaw detection immediately after cage casting, before rotor machining. Using production, price, rejection, and repair data for Soviet motors of frame sizes 2 to 9, …
This paper describes the use of analog computers for modeling planar centroid mechanisms, understood as trajectories generated by points associated with a circle rolling without slipping on another circle. It formulates the motion in parametric form and shows how sine and cosine generators, summator…
The paper examines the use of the oblique triangle method for analog computer modeling of the kinematics of planar class IV mechanisms. It discusses the difficulty of choosing a geometric decomposition that permits successive solution, and combines oblique triangle equations with implicit function m…
The paper describes an iterative method for simulating analog circuits on a digital computer by representing the output of each analog block as an expansion in a complete system of functions. It formulates circuit behavior through block operators and their composition, with convergence tied to the e…
This paper addresses the correction of computer-generated operational production schedules when calculated launch or output dates fall before the beginning of the planning period. The authors formulate the adjustment as a problem of minimally shortening production-cycle durations across enterprise s…
This paper describes modular electronic control and measuring equipment intended for continuous monitoring of drilling processes and remote transmission of instrument readings. Using a clay mud pressure sensor as an example, it presents a system combining an inductive primary sensor with a follow-up…
This paper compares limiting limb capacities of very high voltage transformers using identical helical low voltage windings but different high voltage winding designs: single concentric coil windings and multilayer concentric windings. The authors formulate an exploratory optimization method based o…
This paper analyzes the conditions under which high-voltage transformers can supply pulsed loads, such as electron accelerator tubes, with an approximately constant-voltage pulse. Using an equivalent circuit and numerical calculations on a Minsk-1 computer, the authors examine how pulse duration dep…
This paper examines whether a high-voltage transformer powered from a 50 Hz industrial-frequency network can serve as a pulsed power supply for electron accelerator tubes requiring very small voltage variation during beam formation. Using an equivalent transformer circuit with leakage inductance, wi…
The paper develops balance equations for the electromotive forces in a cylindrical unipolar alternating-current generator with rotor armature and additional windings, a stator excitation winding, and a compensating winding. Under simplifying assumptions of infinite magnetic permeability, absence of …
This paper investigates factors affecting heat transfer coefficients in low-power DC machines, focusing on air-flow velocity, different cooling conditions for armature active and end portions, and interpole gap configuration. Because direct experiments on real machines are difficult, the authors use…
This paper examines self-excitation in a brushless electromechanical amplifier with adjustable output frequency, focusing on loss of voltage control caused by current through return diodes exceeding the controlled semiconductor-switch current. The authors formulate steady-state circuit equations for…
The paper addresses the replacement of commutator brush assemblies in DC machines by describing a rotor position sensor and semiconductor commutator for brushless DC motors. It proposes an eddy current position sensor with a ferrite core, separate excitation and signal windings, a copper shield, and…
This paper develops a method for including slot skew in calculations of the rotational electromotive force of a commutated section in DC machines. The authors represent the conductor emf through an average air-gap induction over the skewed slot span, apply graphical integration to a P51 machine, and…
This paper presents a theoretical analysis of an induction machine amplifier or generator excited from a direct current source through a controlled semiconductor switch. Because discrete switching of the excitation phases prevents treatment as an ordinary induction machine, the authors formulate dif…
This paper develops an experimental statistical method for obtaining a generalized dynamic current voltage characteristic of a carbon brush and commutator sliding contact for use in commutation calculations of direct current machines. Using a pulse test installation, the authors measure contact volt…
This paper examines the choice of stator tooth zone geometry for high-power impulse generators, focusing on the number of slots per pole and phase, the tooth-width to pitch ratio, and the slot-height to slot-width ratio. Using a digital computer calculation based on turbogenerator design methods, th…
This paper examines electro-erosive wear of commutators in DC machines caused by commutation sparking and its implications for service life. Based on tests of P22M machines under elevated sparking, the authors define a practical failure criterion as burn-through of the erosion trace across an entire…
This paper examines repeated switching of AR-series asynchronous roller table motors, focusing on starting and reversing when the rotor has various initial speeds. It first estimates the decay of the rotor magnetic field after disconnection, showing that the short rotor time constants of these high-…
