& Approved For Re ease 2001/03/26: CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0500130039-3 Title: IMPROVED TRANSFORMER OIL FOR SUPERHIGH-VOLTAGE POWER LINES Primary source: Vyshka, September 13, 1980, No. 212 (15176), p. 2, cols. 4-7 Extract: A new transformer oil leng- thens the service life of superhigh- voltagel0ower transmission line equip- ment by five times. A process for manufacturing this oil has been devel- oped by Azerbaydzhan scientists. With respect to properties, it substantial- ly surpasses all oils in use for sim- ilar purposes. Doctor of Technical Sciences R. Sh. Kuliyev, head of an oil chemistry and technology laboratory, told an Azerin- form correspondent: "Heightened demands are being made in oils that are used for filling large-capacity transformers. And in creative colla- boration with our colleagues of the Al-l-Union Scientific Research Insti- tute of the Oil Refining Industry and industrial specialists of the Baku Oil Refinery, we have succeeded, through intensive refining, in devel- oping an oil that meets these require- ments." Title: "SOYUZ-38" CREW EXECUTES "SALYUT-6" APPROACH MANEUVER Primary source: Komsomol'skaya pravda, September 20, 1980, No. 219 (16925), p. 1, cols. 6-7 On board the scientific research complex "Salyut-6"--"Soyuz-37", Leonid Popov and Valeriy Ryumin are preparing for the upcoming docking with the "Soyuz-38" spaceship. The flight of the manned spacecraft is proceeding in accordance with the program. The cosmonauts--comrades Popov, Ryumin, Romanenko and Tamayo Mendez-- are feeling well. Title: NEW HIGHER MILITARY POLITICAL SCHOOL IN TALLIN Primary source: Sovetskaya Estoniya, September 2, 1980, No. 203 (11200), p. 1, cols. 1-4 Extract: September 1, 1980, will go down in the history of the Tallin Higher Military Political School of Construction as the first day of this new educational institution. A ceremo ny was held to commemorate this event. It was opened by General- Major V. Gnezdilov, the head of the school. Words of congratulation were spoken by A. B. Upsi, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Estonia, and by Colonel V. Lukin, deputy head of the political administration of the Baltic Military District. Author: Levitskiy, Yu., corresponde (Irkutsk) Entire text: Space Title: SOLAR VACUUM Flight Control TELESCOPE AT Center, September BAYKAL OBSERVATORY 19 (TASS)--As of 1:00 p.m., Moscow time, the spaceship "Soyuz-38", which Primary source: Sovetskaya is piloted by an Rossiya, international crew, September 19, 1980, had completed 10 No. 217 (7368), orbits around the p. 2, col. 8 earth. - Cosmonauts Yuriy Romanenko Entire text: The shore and of the lake Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez near the village of have carried Listvinichnyy is out planned operations the site of the Baykal for monitoring Astrophysical the ship's onboard Observatory of the systems, and they Siberian Insti tiLt e have executed the -th - first twin-pulse of Earth Magnetism - n Pr_P_ q h e I"n maneuver for the long-distance , _ approach nd Propagation of-Rad _ _ _ io Waves to the orbiting complex "Salyut-6"-- - _- t "Soyuz-37". Rr kS15T =1K) or the Siberian ch or ' Following the correction the USSR Academy of of the Sciences. A flight trajectory, large solar vacuum the orbit para- telescope that will meters of the "Soyuz-38" be one of the largest spaceship in the country distance from the is being erected here. surface The height of re a i a the support tower on : m which the 10-ton mum x of the earth--320 mirror device is mounted kilometers; minimum is 24 meters, distance from the and the length of the surface of the earth optical tube . kilometers; period exceeds 40 meters. of revolution-- With the aid of' a 90.2 m* in i pn-- 3' :L@W#Y 4@604&h%r: CIA-RDP96-A=XR=WQ13P 409r* LMW A , a _ A0 Approved For Release 2001/03/26 CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0500130039-3 powerful twin lens, it will be possi- ble to obtain an image of the,sun 390 millimeters in diameter. The theoret- ical resolution power of the telescope is 0.2 of an angular second. Adjustment of the gigantic astron- omy instrument should begin late this year. Associates of SibIZMIR who are taking part in this are working hard to bring this moment closer. Comments and additions or deletions to the distribution list should be addressed to: SG1 I Approved For Release 2001/03/26 : 6A-RDP96-00787ROO0500130039-3