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          be able to conduct a grandiose experiment in Uzbeiristan. 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 Terrestriai/ma(g/n,-etism Instit'ut Occupies Experimental Building
          An experimental faci ty (korpus) of a building complex of the Si-
          berian Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Ionosphere and Radio Wave
          Propagation 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 US$R Academy
          of Sciences Doctor of Physicomathematical Sciences V. Ye. Stepanovf)reported
          that two more facilities (korpusa) -- a laboratory and an administrative
          building, will be built soon. (4]
          (Complete translation: "Experimental Facility," (unsigned); Moscow, Stroi-
          tel'naya Gazeta, 23 December 1970, p 4)
          Scientists Use Earthquake Waves for Geological Prospectin@
               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 Research Gas@_@_fnff@_P_etroleu__m Ins t@ itute,
               "Of course, the recovery of useful raw materials from such depths, if,
          in fact, they are there, is an extremely difficult matter and therefore
          possible only in the future. However, information obtained on the structure
          of the earth at these great depths will, on the -vAiole, undoubtedly acceler-
          ate and increase the prospects of finding new gas and oil fields. [4]
          (Complete translation: "Superdeep Prospecting," by S. Yushkovskiy; Moscow,
          Izvestiya, 15 January 1971, p 4),
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