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       be able to conduct a grandiose experiment in Uzbel(istan- The new Charvak-
       skoye Reservoir will be filled, imparting an enormous load on the earth's
       crust. It will be possible to trace and analyze the processes which tran-
       spire as the reservoir is filled. The station chief is confident that the
       time will come when earthquakes can.be predicted several months in advance.
       (Summary: "Earthquakes on Order?", by L. Lebedev; Moscow, Pravda, 7 Jan-
       uary 1971, p 6)
       Siberian Terrestrial Magnetism Institute Occupies Experimental Building
            An experimental facility (korpus) of a building complex of the Si-
       berian Institute of Terrestrial Ma netism, the Ionosphere and-Radio Wave
       ropagation of the USSR Academy of-Sciences has just been.placed in opera-
       tion. This scientific laboratory -- a manufacturing plant in miniature --
       is made of concrete and glass and has a total area of approximately 2,000
       square meters.
            Director of the institute, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy
       of Sciences Doctor of Physicomathem'atical Sciences*V. Ye. Stepanov reported
       that two more facilities (korpusa) -- a laboratory and an administrative
       building, will be built soon. (41
       (Complete translation: "Experimental Facility,," (unsigned); Moscow, Stroi-
       tel'naya Gazeta, 23 December 1970, p 4)
       Scientists Use Earthguak e Waves for Geological Prospectipj
            Recently the All-Union Institute of Geophysics developed a method of
       using the waves of distant earthquakes for geological prospecting. A spe-
       cial geophysical party was created for this purpose under the Glavtyumen'-
       geologiya [Tyumen' Department of the Main Administration for Geology?]. It
       recently completed its third season of field work. With the aid of complex
       instruments and equipment for capturing the "repercussions" of underground
       tremors, the geologists have already studied the underground strata at ten
       points on the West Siberian Lowland. A precise picture of the underground
       relief has been drawn for depths from 20 to 50 kilometers.
            Doctor of Geological-Mineralogical Sciences N. Rostovtsev, the di-
       rector of the West Siberian Scientific R6bearch Gas and Petroleum Institute,
       said, "Of course, the recovery of useful raw materials from such depths, if,
       in fact, they are there, is an extremely d1ifficult matter and therefore
       possible only in'the future. However, information obtained on the structure
       of the earth at these great depths will, on the whole, undoubtedly acceler-
       ate and increase the prospects of finding new gas ana oil fields. [41
       (Complete translation: "Superdeep Prospecting," by S. Yushkovskiy; Moscow,
       Izvestiya, 15 January 1971, p 4)
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