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Body:  Friday
 March 27, 1992
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 FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY CENTER
 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.
 (SNAP 920327)
 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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