Category Archives: technology

Rags, Borya And The Rocket – Baranova and Veltistov

In this post, we will see the book Rags, Borya And The Rocket: a tale of home-less dogs and how they became famous by M. Baranova, Y. Veltistov. About the book: This is a semi-fictional book. If you like space travel and … Continue reading

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Can Man Change The Climate? – Borisov

In this post, we will see the book Can Man Change The Climate? by P. Borisov. About the book: This book examines the ways to solve the very important problem of improving the climate and reducing agriculture’s dependence on Nature … Continue reading

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Plasma Physics – Kadomtsev (Ed.)

In this post, we will see the book Plasma Physics edited by B. B. Kadomtsev. About the book This collection contains articles both original and already published in the Soviet Union in 1979-80, written by well-known Soviet scientists and devoted … Continue reading

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The Earth in the Universe – Fedynskii (Ed.)

In this post, we will see the book The Earth In The Universe edited by V. V. Fedynskii. About the book: The space age was initiated on 4 October 1957, when the first Soviet artificial satellite was launched. Then, between 1961 and … Continue reading

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Entertaining Electronics – E. Sedov

Posting after a long time! Hopefully, this run will continue through this summer and we will see new titles every few days. In this post, we will see the much-awaited book by E. Sedov Entertaining Electronics. The book is an amazing … Continue reading

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The Root System of Fruit Plants – Kolesnikov

In this post we will see a book titled The Root System of Fruit Plants by V. Kolesnikov. About the book: The Root System of Fruit Plants provides the horticulturist with the information he needs to be able to choose an … Continue reading

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Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Reactors – Klimov

In this post we will see Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Reactors by A. Klimov. About the book: The book covers different aspects of nuclear physics. In chapters 1 to 4 basics of nuclear physics and interactions of elementary particles are … Continue reading

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Radio Receiver Theory – Chistyakov

In this post we will see the book Radio Receiver Theory by N. Buka, A. Falko and N. Chistyakov, which was edited by N. I. Chistyakov. About the Book: This book is a general course on radio receivers as taught in … Continue reading

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Low Temperature Physics – Borovik-Romanov

In this post we will see another book in the Advances in Science and Technology in the USSR – Physics series. The book is titled Low Temperature Physics and was edited by A. S. Borovik-Romanov. This book is a collection … Continue reading

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In The Realm of Catalysis – Afanasiev, Zaikov

The phenomenon of changing the rate of a chemical reaction by the action of substances that do not alter their own chemical composition during this reaction is called catalysis. In this post we will see the book In The Realm … Continue reading

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