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F OLD RIGA
I Riga, which shows, in most of its parts, the medieval
y of the city, is now being restored by the architects of
irk has been completed on a master plan for the recon-
ion of the ancient part of the Latvian capital, which is
1 2,000 years old. On an area of only 50 hectares are
intrated many structures of the ' past centuries. . The
in age, particularly the last war, have changed the ap-
mce of many of them, But this process is reversible, as
people of Riga have proved, and again the chimes of the
red Saint Peter's church (12th century), which was
Dyed by the nazis during the occupation of' Riga, ring
wer the old city. The spire of the 17th-century church
was also damaged during the years of occupation, has
been restored.
e colour scheme of the 15th-17th century streets Is being
red. The former merchants' and artisans' gulld buildings
house the Philharmonic Society and the Cultural Centre
ade unions,
Pw tourists and organ music devotees are allowed to
e square, with its famous Dome Concert Hall and museum
Nex of the 13th-16th centuries. According to the. recon-
tion plan, the old city will be closed to traffic.
ITAL LACEWORK
flage of Novchim in the
tonomous Republic has
n famous for its talented
iron workers, and this
is still alive and flour-
lovchim's craftsmen are
fulfilling an important
rom Moscow for the
Games. and the
first
consignment of decorative cast
pig Iron fencing for the Olympic
projects has already been dell-
vered.
The factory which turned out
these fine products was founded
in the middle of the 18th century
and has full training facilities.
CC Science
SPACE DISCOVERY
USED IN INDUSTRY
A discovery by a group of
Moscow and Kiev scientists in
space chemistry has been en-
tered into the USSR State Roster
of Discoveries, They have ex-
perimentally proved that the
tiniest particles of iron, titanium
and silicon which are found
embedded. in the surface layers
of space bodies, particularly, in
the friable lunar ground, do not
get corroded in the terrestrial
atmosphere. The results of this
research are already being used
in industry to raise the resis-
tance to conosion of metal pro-
ducts.
THE SOUND OF THE
OCEAN
Infrasonic waves made by the
tidal movements can now be re-
corded, for example, in Siberia, a
thousand kilometres away from
the nearest coast. This is pos-
sible thanks to a special device
designed at the Institute of the -
Earth's Magnetism
Irkutsk.
The Infrasonic waves too low to
be picked up by the human eat
are emitted by oceans and seas.
Very like the sound waves gen-
erated by active
volcanoes,
earthquakes, hurricanes .and
meteorites when they hit the
Earth, these waves last for long.
periods and can travel several
times around the globe. Their
recordings are of practical : Im-
portance since infrasonic waves
affect the upper layer of the
Earth's atmosphere, the fono-
sphere, which greatly influences
the reliability of radio telecom-
munications.
"IN THE WAKE OF
ANCIENT MEDICINE
"There is nothing on earth
that could not serve as a medi-
cine," sald the ancient Oriental
doctors, having in mind . the
boundless healing properties of
nature. Scientists at the Buryat
Branch of the Siberian . Depart-
ment of the USSR Academy of
Sciences have deciphered old
medical cures so that now they
can be used on a wider scale.
The scientists discovered that
ancient doctors knew very many
natural healing methods. They
were
composed of ... between
twenty and several dozen pre-
parations of plant, animal or
mineral origin.
The Buryat scientists are now
studying the properties of some
200 species of plants mentioned
in ancient prescriptions.
R ARCTIC RESEARCH FLEET
Ilto Schmidt icebreaker, a new addition to
ly of Soviet research vessels, will soon set
er first working cruise in the severe con-
il the Arctic.
@ being an icebreaker the Otto Schmidt is
ime time a special floating institute designed
ict investigations in the little-studied and
naccessible ice-bound regions of the Arctic
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VIEWPOINT
Multinational
Soviet music
By Fikret AMIROV,
composer, People's artist
of the USSR
I took part in the 6th Con-
gress of USSR composers that
has just been held, and the
many professional discussions
and meetings there are still
fresh in my mind. The Congress
presented multinational Soviet
music on the broadest possible
scale. Every year more and
more music-makers from all na-
tions of the Soviet Union are
joining our composers' unions --
as was said at the Congress,
these unions are rapidly growing
in the Ukraine, the Transcauca-
sian Republics, Central Asia,
Kazakhstan, the Baltic Republics,
Byelorussia. and : Moldavia, The
composers' unions. have been
set up only recently in such.
Autonomous Republics, as Ud-
murtia, Tuva, Komi and Yakutia
which means that national mu-
sica) schools ' are developing
there too. The national com-
posers' unions are growing not
only numerically but artistically
as well. Works of music, rec-
ognized by our people and that
have - also gained popularity
abroad, have been composed in
many places of our country.
I'm glad that Azerbaijan com-
posers have made a great. con-
tribution .to Soviet music. All
the musical genres have been
mastered by the composers of
our Republic, which had prac-
tically no professional musicians
before the Great October . Rev-
olution. It is quite different now!
Who here, in this country, and
for that matter, who in musical
circles abroad, has not heard of
Kara Karaev, the Azerbaijan
composer, disciple of the great
Shostakovich? The names of
Dzhovdzbet Gadzblev, Niyazi,
Dzhangir Dzhangirov, Rauf Gad-
zhiyev. Akshin All-Zade and
many other Azerbaijan com-
posers are well known both . in
our country and abroad.
The blossoming of national
music in Azerbaijan, the same
as the rapid development of
music in all national areas, Is
the result of the Leninist na-
tional policy-fraternal mutual
assistance between all nations in
our country. Soviel multination-
al musical culture will go on
developing against a background
of active Interaction and mutu-
al enrichment of national · cul-
tures.
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depth analysis of the achieve-
ments of composers in the vart-
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SUN-WATCH
IN THE
SNOWS
SGIA
NEARLY 7,000 feet up in the
East Siberian mountains, this
solar coronagraph keeps regular
watch on the activity of the
outer layers of the Sun.
Operated by the Siberian In-
stitute of Terrestrial Magnetism,
Tonosphere and Wave Propaga-
tion, the instrument is used to
investigate the correlation of
solar activity and changes in
weather, radio reception and
other phenomena on Earth.
As well as co-operating with
the socialist countries in these
investigations, the institute
maintains regular exchanges of
information with all the major
capitalist countries. The in-
stitute has also hosted major in-
ternational conferences to
discuss progress in this field.
Top and left: Keeping an eye on the Sun up in the Sayany
mountains, East Siberia
Spider farm's
valuable crop
A SPIDER farm in Alma-Ata, capital of Soviet
Kazakhstan, produces only 30 grammes of poison
annually, but this is enough for several medical
establishments in the country and for export.
The farm has some 16,000 scorpions, tarantulas and
spiders. Each of them live in a separate vessel,
since spiders are such outrageous individualists.
A spider's poison is more valuable than that of a snake:
one gramme is worth 20,000 roubles and it is us-
ed in preparing medicines, vaccines and serums.
To get just one gramme of poison it is necessary to
"milk" 8,000 scorpiops
New voyage for
non-magnetic ship
ONE of the world's few com-
pletely non-magnetic ships, the
Leningrad schooner Zarya, has
started a voyage to probe
mysteries of the Earth's
magnetic field.
The Zarya is built mainly of
wood and has had all its metal
parts carefully de-magnetised to
enable scientists to measure tiny
variations of magnetic field.
The first part of the present
voyage is an examination of the
"centennial variation" of the
magnetic field in the southern
Baltic, sponsored jointly by the
science academies of the Soviet
Union, Poland and the German
Democratic Republic.
Later, the schooner will sail
to the Mediterranean to in-
vestigate magnetic anomalies in
the area between Italy, France
and Africa.
The results may help to solve
the problem of whether the
Mediterranean is the remnant of
an ancient ocean squeezed be-
tween the rock platforms of
Africa and Europe or whether
it is a new ocean in the process
of formation.
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