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An important event in the history of Soviet science took place in 1934: the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR left Leningrad for Moscow. Several institutes moved following the Presidium. The Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences moved also in 1934.
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VSNKh—Supreme Council of National Economy. Later the Institute of Physics and Technology was transferred to the People’s Commissariat of Heavy Industry (NKTP).
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Report data presented in 1927 by director of this institute Romanov indicate that Research Institute of Physics and Crystallography at Moscow State University was leading research institute in this field: 10 full members worked in the institute, six of them did not belong to the staff of Moscow State University (MSU), “16 persons are employed in the institute at all, and half of them does not belong to the MSU staff. Although the Institute of Physics and Crystallography is officially assigned to MSU it actually includes researchers from the majority of Moscow higher learning institutions and higher technical educational institutions and therefore it is an institution of all-Moscow scale” [401, fund 40, inventory 1, depositary items 2].
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As Vavilov wrote in his diary, “FIAN should become the central and theoretically basic institute in Moscow” (see [351]).
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See papers of G.E. Gorelik [139, 140].
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Structure of physics in Leningrad are described in the book of G.E. Gorelik and V.Ya. Frenkel [142, pp. 48–51].
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See the book of A.V. Andreev [12].
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V.V. Migulin is a coauthor of a book on the theory of oscillations [232] (it was cited in Chap. 8, Sect. 8.5).
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A quotation from Engels’ “Anti-During”. Soviet philosophers-ideologists traced back this statement to Hegel’s dialectics and Spinoza’s philosophy.
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In marine affairs, the device measuring the distance covered by a ship is called a log. The simplest log consists of a float thrown overboard of thin rope and on a reel for unwinding this rope.
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By synchronization, cos ωt is transformed into \(\cos \frac{2}{3}\omega t\) and therefore the oscillation \({ \cos }\,\omega (t - t_{0} ) = { \cos }(\omega \,t - \varphi )\) is transformed into the oscillation \({ \cos }\left[ {\frac{2}{3}\,\omega \,(t - t_{0} )} \right] = { \cos }\left[ {\frac{2}{3}(\omega t - \varphi )} \right]\), whence follows the formulae given in the text.
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Pechenkin, A. (2019). Moscow State University and the Academy of Sciences. In: L.I. Mandelstam and His School in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17685-3_11
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