USSR: Space retrieval

Central Europe & the USSR

Central Europe & the USSR

Hepatic Surgery in the Ussr

The history of hepatic surgery in the USSR goes back to the work of Russian surgeons in the late nineteenth century. The first successful liver resection was performed in Russia by N.V. Sklifosovsky in 1889, further contributions to surgery of the liver were made by M.M. Kuznetsov and V.R. Pensky who suggested the hepatic suture (Figure 1) in 1894 1, 2. At the same time as the topographical stu...

Japanese Encephalitis in the Ussr.

The author sketches the history of Japanese encephalitis in the USSR, where it has been thoroughly studied since it first occurred in 1938. After a brief outline of its epidemiology, he describes the pathogenesis, the signs and symptoms, and the pathophysiological mechanisms that make this form of encephalitis so dangerous. He also discusses the diagnosis and the methods of treatment and preven...

Application of X-ray topography to USSR and Russian space materials science

The authors' experience of the application of X-ray diffraction imaging in carrying out space technological experiments on semiconductor crystal growth for the former USSR and for Russia is reported, from the Apollo-Soyuz programme (1975) up to the present day. X-ray topography was applied to examine defects in crystals in order to obtain information on the crystallization conditions and also o...