T W E N T Y - F I F T H A N N I V E R S A R Y OF

FOR M E A S U R E M E N T S

V. K.

THE ODESSA TECHNICAL SCHOOL

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Opening in September, 1945, the technical school accepted 60 young boys and girls for instruction. Now it is a large educational institution having 3600 students, including more than 1000 in the daytime division.

Over the quarter century the technical school has graduated 683O highly qualified specialists.

The technical school prepares metxologists in mechanical, electrothermotechnical, and radiotechnical mea - surements, and since 1966 has successfully conducted the preparation of standards technicians for machine building.

Three years after its opening, the technical school organized student consultation centers for correspondence in- struction in Leningrad, Sverdlovsk, and Novosibirsk, and later in Moscow and Khar'kov.

The graduates of the technical school go to work in the constantly growing system of the Committee of Stan- dards and in various branches of the national economy. Nearly all the Government Surveillance Laboratories (LG N) and the divisions of the Committee, and these number more than 400, have past graduates of the technical school. Some of them have managerial duties in the Government Surveillance Laboratories and in the Scientific-Research Institutes of the Committee of Standards. [or example, we have these present directors of Government Surveillance Laboratories: V. M. Borisov, Volgorad; V. I. Vinnik, Krasnodar; S. P. Gochev, Checheno-Ingnsh Government Surveil- lance Laboratory; I. A. Trembach, Belgorod; A. M. Sheiko, Mogilev; V. V. Smirnov, Gomel'; and I. P. Petrov, Kara- Kalpak Government Surveillance Laboratory.

The director of the laboratory of the All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of the Committee of Standards, Measures, and Measuring Instruments (VNIIK) is T. G. Filatov; assistant directors of laboratories in the same Scien- tific-Research Institute are L. N. Strel'tsov, E. V. Vasil'ev, and I. V. Maslennikova.

A. V. Yakovlev is the director of the monitoring and measuring instrument (KIP) workshop of the Odessa Sugar Refining Works. Many specialists who are technical graduates work in engineering jobs.

The technical school graduates are willingly accepted for work in the calibration laboratories of various de- partments where especially accurate measurements are required. Former students are also encountered in design bureaus, the staffs of chief metrologists, and in the technical monitoring sections in the enterprises of many branches throughout the country.

Of the educational institutions in Odessa and in the Ukraine as a whole, many, and especially the Technical School for Measurements, enjoy the special attention of youth. From their older comrades the young boys and girls know the high esteem given in industry to the specialists graduating from the Odessa Technical School for Measure- ments. For several years running half of the total number of entering students in the technical school have been hon- ors pupils and medalists and pupils graduating with honors certificates, and there has been great competition for the remaining openings.

The need for metrologists in the national economy continually grows, and this has required the organization of the training of such specialists in a number of other technical schools. The Odessa Technical School, as the old- est and most experienced educational institution, has been commissioned to carry out methodical direction of the training of technicians-metrologists in all the intermediate educational institutions of the country in which suchtrain- ing is performed. To this purpose the technical school provides these educational institutions with educational-meth- odological literature, conducts annual methodological seminars, teacher probation, and consultation.

Translated from Izmeritel 'naya Tekhnika, No. 9, pp. 22-23, September, 1970. Original article submitted April 14, 1970.

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For the Odessa Technical School 1970 is doubly noteworthy. In addition to the jubilee, this year is being commemorated in that for the first time in the Soviet Union there has been graduated a force of 84 specialists in standardarization in machine building, or, more precisely, "standardization of common units and parts of machines." The training of such specialists abroad has been discontinued.

Technicians-standardizers-these are highly qualified specialists in the field of standardization and metrology. From them young specialists have acquired a large body of knowledge on standardization, and at the same time they are metrologists.

The young specialists-standardizers are prepared for work in the sections (bureaus) for normalization and stan- dardization in enterprises, machine building design bureaus, and in sections of the chief metrologist, the chief en- gineer, and the Technical Monitoring Section (OTK) of machine building factories, and also for work in local organs of the Committee of Standards.

The graduates-standardizers are willingly invited to work in the largest machine-building enterprises. So it was with the first graduates in 1970. The young specialists from the Odessa Technical School for Measurements went to work in the Volzh Automobile Factory under construction in Tol'yatti, at the Minsk Automobile, the Khar- kov Tractor, and the Krasnoflot Machinebuilding Works, Rostcel'mash, and elsewhere.

The ~ducational process in the technical school keeps abreast of the times. Many graduate projects find direct application in industry. The introduction of proposals contained in the graduate projects of the students improves production; thereby they can have a substantial economic effect.

The graduation thesis of L. G. Petrochenko, a student graduating in 1969 (instructor, N. C. KozhevrKkov), "Mobile monitoring-repair laboratory for servicing compressor stations," in the opinion of the Central Asia Adminis- tration of Main Gas lines, can, if introduced, provide savings of 11,520 rubies per year.

Some graduation theses on standardization have become part of the everyday work of coworkers in machine- building factories. For example, the graduation thesis of B. B. Maletska, "unification of the design of punches op- erating simultaneously for making washers," became part of the work in developing the standard of the Odessa Agri- cultural Machinery Works; the standard has been adopted for introduction in 1971. The introduction of the propo- sals of the graduation project of V. N. Timchenko into automobile production may afford substantial savings.

Over the course of the past 14 years the technical school has taaght representatives of the Mongolian People's Republic and Cuba; they have successfully dealt with mechanical and electrothermotechnical measurements.

Methodological material in the training of technicians-metrologists in the Odessa Technical School for Mea- surements is included in the mutual information sent to almost all socialist countries and to certain capitalist coun- tries.

The technical school for several years has cooperated with the Gorna Oryakhovitsa Electrotechnical School in the People's Republic of Bulgaria. Mutual study of experience and exchange of opinions on instruction methods

have borne positive results.

tn addition to its main work, over a number of years the Odessa Technical School for Measurements has im- proved the qualification of Ieadmen and engineering-technical workers in the field of measurement technology for Committee of Standards and many branches of the national economy. For this purpose the best teaching forces have been enlisted, and the students' laboratories of the technical school have been used. As a result of this work the

technical school has trained a large number of state and departmental checkers.

All that has been accomplished in the technical school is, first of all, due to the instructional staff of this ed- ucational institution. Presently the technical schoo! has 57 instructors. Many of the instructors have worked in this educational institution for 10-15 years and longer. Included among these veterans are the director of the technical school, I. P. Metelkina; the assistant director, Yu. I. Yakovlev; the instructor N. S. Kozhevnikova; the technical school's chief bookkeeper, S. E. Gederim; the methodist of the correspondence division M. L. Ginzburg; and also in- structors such as F. F.Tomchakovskii and I. F. Gol'dzaid, whose entire working life has been devoted to the instruc- tion and development of youth in the Odessa Technical School for Measurements, having worked here since its found- ing. The first director of the technical school, S. K. Listorenko, worked in the technical school from its opening un- til 1953, and then transferred to other work, but he has not left the system of the Committee of Standards, and con-

tinues to work in the Odessa Ministry of Government Surveillance Laboratories (MLGN). Many highly qualified in-

structors have come into the technical school's staff in recent years.

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The Odessa Technical School for Measurements has passed over a distinguished labor path in the last quarter century. It has constantly developed and improved. Whereas the first graduation in 1950 involved only 93 persons, now only 20 years later, in 1970, the techuical school graduated 830 specialists, having increased its "productivity" by nine times.

The techuical school is situated in good environs in the center of Odessa; its students' laboratories are equip- ped with modern measuring instruments, but these are already insufficient; consequently, construction has begun on a modern educational complex, and a dormitory for students is being put up.

Noting the glorious jubilee of the technical school, we wish the entire staff of instructors and administrative- management personnel success in their future work, and the students success in mastering the complex professions of technician-rnetrologist and technieian-staudardizer.

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