Library of Dreams…

Posted on September 11, 2022 by The Mitr

So many books yet to be done…

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Life Triumphs – Sharov

Posted on September 11, 2022 by The Mitr

In this post, we will see the book Life Triumphs by A. Sharov.

About the book

The book tells us story of how the terrible disease of plague was conquered. Starting from Danilo Samoilovich, a Ukrainian, founder of epidemiology in the Russian Empire, the book explores the journey of finding a cure for plague.

The book was translated from Russian by Violet Dutt and was published in 1955 by Foreign Languages Publishing House.

This translation has been made from the Russian edition published by the Sovetsky Pisatel Publishing House, Moscow 1953.

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CONTENTS

THE BEGINNING OF THE JOURNEY

Danila Samoilovich 5
Vetlyanka Village 22
The First Weapon 34
Invisible Currents 46
At Home 66
In Search of the Non-Existent 85
The Plague Fort 96

TWO VICTORIES

In Manchuria 112
The Moscow Plague Centre 119
The Manchurian Plague Riddle Solved 137
The Caspian Area 143
At the Fisheries 147
The Second Victory 154

WHAT COULD BE AND WHAT IS

The Conquest of a Continent 174
The Fate of Dr. Kellogg 178
A Conversation in Smolny 191

THE REALIZATION OF THE IDEA

The Beginning of the Offensive 195
“AMP” 207
The “EV” Strain 217
Against Death 224
The Experiments Continue 229
The Third Task 231
Pages from a Diary 23S

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Land in Bloom – Safonov

Posted on September 10, 2022 by The Mitr

In this post, we will see the book Land In Bloom by Vadim Safonov.

About the book

A celebration of Soviet agricultural science, using literary techniques to bring the main characters to life. A propagandized history of plant breeding. This entertaining work won the 1949 Stalin prize. Mendelian genetics, developed in the U.S., are attacked in favour of the inheritance of acquired characteristics as espoused by Michurin, Lysenko, and others.

The book was translated from Russian by J. Fineberg was published in 1951 by Foreign Languages Publishing House.

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A Great Battle
The battlefield. Green land
The Inhabitants of Green Land
Living Dust
A Planet in an Olive-Coloured Mist
Threads of Life
A Great Army
Explorer and Master
Servants
Alphonse De Candolle
The Circle Expands
“Impossible!”
The mystery of mysteries
A Few Observations on Sweet Peas, Luck and Tumbler Pigeons
The Year 1859
The Monastery in Brno
Giants and Pygmies – Twenty-Two Mice Generations
The Resurrection of Gregor Mendel
The Morganists
Lilliput
Professor Muller’s Flies
The birth of a great science
The Perfect Slipper. More About the Pygmy Science and the Giant Science
The Californian Wizard
Struggle and Triumph
A Mighty Science Is Born
Land in Bloom
A Creator
Commander of the fields
The Discovery of Vernalization
The Stages of Life
The Mystery of Birth
The Conquest of Old Age
Marriage for Love
Kooperatorka’s New Life
The Story About the Poplar Tree
Potatomato
The Thing Most Needed
The History of the Dandelion
Lysenko
The victor generation
An Experiment on 500 000 Hectares
An Experiment on 700 000 Hectares
The Shpolians
A Million Hectares
What Is Socialist Romanticism?
The Morning of the World
A Thousand and Thirty-Five Tubers
Green Land is altering its frontiers

Grain Grows in Hibini
Arctic Agriculture
The Treasures at Blue Bridge
Undying Heroism
Living earth
A Giant
A Planet’s “Iliad”
The Human Era
Land of the Fгture
Creative life
Land of Twilight
In the Land of Life
A Historic Session
Explanatory Notes

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Problems in Reactor Shielding Physics – Broder et al (Eds.)

Posted on September 9, 2022 by The Mitr

In this post, we will see the book Problems in reactor shielding physics – Collection of articles by D. L. Broder, V. V Orlov, S. G. Tsypin, A. P. Veselkin, Yu. A. Yegorov.

About the book

This collection of articles includes works which are
concerned with the experimental and theoretical investigation of the biological shielding of nuclear reactors as
well as works on the methodology and instruments for studying the shielding.

The works consider different analytical methods which
make it possible to determine the three-dimensional energy
and angular distribution of radiations in the shielding,
the results of many experiments with radiations penetrating through homogeneous and multilayer shieldings through
shieldings with heterogeneities and others.

Some of the works describe various devices to determine the fluxes and the spectral radiation distribution
beyond the shielding and inside the shielding. These
works also consider the method of analyzing the characteristics of devices and the process of measurement results.

This collection will be useful to a wide circle of
readers concerned with the analysis and design of biological shielding of reactors and to specialists interested
in the transmission of radiations through a substance, as
well as to those working in the field of experimental
nuclear physics.

Translation of “Voprosy fiziki zashchity reaktorov. Sbornik statey.”

Gosatomizdat, Moscow, 1963, translated by NASA.

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Preface v

PART I. THE THEORY OF RADIATION PENETRATION AND METHODS OF ANALYZING SHIELDING

The Neutron Danger Functions in the Analysis of Shielding From Radiation 1
A. A. Abagyan, V. V. Orlov and G. I. Rodionov

Three-dimensional Energy Distribution of Fast Neutrons in Hydrogen 27
Sh. S. Nikolayshvlll

Three-dimensional Distribution of Neutrons in an Infinite Homogeneous Medium with a Point Unidirectional Source 36
A. P. Suvorov, Ye. B. Breshenkova and V. V. Orlov

Application of the Method of “Removal Cross Sections” to Analysis of Shielding Without Hydrogen 70
D. L. Broder, A. A. Kutuzov, V. V. Levin and V. V. Frolov

Experimental Justification for the Multiple Group Methods in the Computation of Biological Shielding 81
D. L. Broder, A. P. Kondrashov, A. A. Kutuzov, V. A. Naumov, Yu. A. Sergeyev and A. V. Turusova

Application of Empirical Data to the Calculation of Shielding 99
B. I. Sinitsyn and S. G. Tsypin

Computation of Neutron Diffusion in a Two-dimensional Problem by Means of the P_{2} approximation 117
G. Ya. Rumyantsev

Investigation of the Accuracy of Various Approximations in the Problem of Three-dimensional Energy and Angular Distribution of Neutrons 125
V. M. Veselov

Application of Conjugate Equations to the Calculation of Radiation Shielding 141
G. I. Marchuk and Zh. N. Bel’skaya

Attenuation of Fast Neutrons in Nonhydrogen Moderators 146
B.R. Bergel’son

Angular Distribution of Neutrons at Small Distances from the Source in an Isotropically Scattering Medium 152
V. A. Kon’shin

The Question of Radiation Source Geometry l6l
D. L. Broder, Ye. N. Goryanina, G. M. Levis, K. K. Popkov and S. M. Rubanov

Attenuation of Radiation in Heterogeneous Shieldings I7I
N. I. Laletin

Selection of a System of Functions for the Excitation of Levels During Elastic Scattering of Neutrons by Iron, Nickel and Niobium Nuclei 192
D. L. Broder, A. I. Lashuk, I. P. Sadokhin and A. P. Suvorov

Representation of Decay Curves for Fission Fragments by Functions of a Given Form (e^{bt}) 207
V. I. Lebedev, P. Ye. Stepanov

The Spectrum of Gamma-radiation Produced by the Products of Uranium Fission. Effective Absorption Coefficients for the Gamma-ray Spectrum and Their Utilization for the Computation of Shielding 211
V. P. II’in

Average Cross Sections of the Reaction for the Gamma-spectrum of Fission Fragments 238
V. Kh. Tokhtarov

Application of the Monte Carlo Method for Computing Nuclear Radiation Shielding 247
V. G. Zolotukhln and S. M. Yennakov

PART II. THE EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF SHIELDING

Three-dimensional Energy Distribution of Neutrons In Thick Iron Layers 263
V. P. Mashkovlch, V. K. Sakharov and S. G. Tsypin

Deformation of Fast Neutron Spectruim in Concrete and Water 276
Yu. A. Yegorov

Shielding Properties of Certain Types of Concretes 280
V. N. Avayev, G. A. Vasil’yev, A. P. Veselkin, Yu. A. Yegorov, A. D. Zhirnov, V. A. Kucheryayev, Yu. V. Orlov, Ye. A. Panov and Yu. V. Pankrat’yev

The Transmission of Gamma-radiation Through Heterogeneous Media 287
D. L. Broder, Yu. P. Kayurin, A. A. Kutuzov

The Gamma-spectrum of the Experimental Reactor 300
V. N. Avayev, Yu. A. Yegorov, I. Ya. Yemel’yanov^ A. D. Zhirnov Yu. V. Orlov and V. A. Remizov

The Inclined Incidence of Gamma-rays 304
V. I. Kukhtevich and L. A. Trykov

Investigation of the Spectral and Angular Distribution of Gamma-rays After Transmission Through Shielding Barriers 311
A. V. Larichev

Field Doses and the Angular Distribution of Gamma-radiation from the Surface of Isotropic Sources at the Boundary Separating two Media 316
L. P. Kimel

The Three-dimensional Distribution of Scattered Energy from a Point Unidirectional Source 322
L . P . Kimel ‘ and . I . Leypunskiy

The Difference in the Spectra of Gamma-rays Diiring Radiation Capture of Thermal Neutrons and of Neutrons with the Reactor Spectrum 331
A. T. Bakov, S. P. Belov-, Yu. A. Kazanskiy and V. I. Popov

Transmission of Gamma-radiation Through a Flat Slit in Shielding 336
A. P. Veselkin, Yu. A. Yegorov and Ye. A. Panov

Heat Liberation in Reactor Screens and Vessels 344
D. L. Erode r, A. P. Kondrashov, V. A. Naumov, K. K. Popkov and A. V. Turusova

PART III. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS OF INVESTIGATING SHIELDING AND SHIELDING MATERIALS

Investigation of Neutron Transmission Through Shielding by Means of Unidirectional Sources (the B-2 Installation) 357
S. G. Tsypin

Experimental Methods of Investigating Shielding (Radiation Detectors) 372
V. A. Dulin, Yu. A. Kazanskiy and Ye. S. Matusevich

Counters and Dosimeters for Investigating Shielding and the Shielding Properties of Materials 385

V. N. Avayev, G. A. Vasil’yev, Yu. A, Yegorov, V. A. Kucheryayev, Yu. V. Orlov, Yu. V. Pankrat’yev and Ye. A. Panov

Application of Radioactive Tracers in the Investigation of Shielding 400
V. N. Avayev, Ye. V. Voskresenskiy, Yu. A. Yegorov and Yu, V. Orlov

Measiirement of Fast Neutron Fluxes in Shielding when There is a BackgroTond of Intense Intermediate Neutron Fluxes 409
V. P. Mashkovich

Application of Random Sampling to the Computation of Spectrometer Characteristics for Gamma-radiation and fast Neutrons 4l5
V. N. Avayev, Yu. A. Yegorov and Yu. V. Orlov

Calculation and Analysis of the Characteristics of a Spectrometer with Boron-hydrogen Scintillator 428
V. N. Avayev, Yu. A. Yegorov, Yu. V. Orlov, A. S. Frolov and N. N. Chentsov

Single Crystal Ffeist Neutron Spectrometer for lyfeasuring Continuous Spectra 451
Yu. A. Yegorov and Yu. V. Pankrat’yev

Permissible Gamma Background Radiation when Jfeasiiring Fast Neutrons with a Single Sensor Spectrometer 460
Yu. A. Yegorov, Yu. V. Orlov and Yu. V. Pankrat’yev

The Gamma- spectrometer Based on the Formation of Electron-positron Pairs 464
V. N. Avayev, Yu. A. Yegorov and Yu. V. Orlov

Application of a Single Crystal Gamma-spectrometer for Taking Measurements on a Nuclear Reactor 474
Yu. A. Yegorov. and Yu. V. Orlov

Strength of Special Composition Concrete at High Temperatures (400-800°C) 486
I. A. Arshinov

Physical and Mschanical Properties of Concrete with Serpentine Fillers 5OO
I. A. Arshinov

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Anton Pavlovich Chekov (Soviet Literary Criticism) – Yermilov

Posted on September 8, 2022 by The Mitr

In this post, we will see the book Anton Pavlovich Chekhov by Vladimir Yermilov.

About the book

The book is a comprehensive critique of Chekhov’s works and life.

Translated from the Russian by Ivy Litvinov
Designed by Y. Gannushkin

Published by Foreign Languages Publishing House in 1960s (exact year is not known).

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“There Was No Childhood in My Childhood” 7
Inklings of Talent 19
“Good-Bye, Homel Good-Bye to the Old Life!” 24
Head of the Family 33
In Those Far-Off, Remote Times 41
The Dance of the “Dragon-flies” 44
Birth of an Innovator. The Ugly Duckling 47
The Satirist 61
The Master 84
His Friends and Foes 107
The Great Worker. What Is Talent? 148
Hard Times 170
Loving Foe 199
Death of a Brother 211
The Ruling Principle 215
Distant Journey 220
Melikhovo 234
Protest 238
“We live on the Eve of a Great Triumph” 247
The Not-Heroes 250
“It Is Impossible To Go On Like This” 295
“I Have Believed in Progress Since My Childhood” 300
Fighting “The Evil One” 304
Happiness Lies in the Future! 308
The Sea-gull 329
Everything Must Be Beautiful about the Human Being! 349
The Failure of The Sea-gull 364
The Dreyfus Case 369
Encounter with the Art Theatre 373
Yalta 377
Before the Storm 386
“‘Welcome, New Life!** 393
In 1904 411

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My Life in Art (Soviet Arts) – Stanislavsky

Posted on September 7, 2022 by The Mitr

In this post, we will see the book My Life In Art by Konstantin Stanislavsky. This book is part of the series Soviet Arts.

About the book

I Wanted to Write a book about the creative work done by the Moscow Art Theatre in the 25 years of its existence and about my own work there. However, I spent the past two years abroad, touring Europe and America with the greater part of our company, and it was there that I wrote this book at the request of an American firm which published it in Boston in English under the title My Life in Art. 1 This compelled me to make considerable changes in my original plans and prevented me from saying much that I had intended to share with my reader. Unfortunately, the present state of our book market has deprived me of the possibility of substantially supplementing the book, of increasing its volume, and I therefore have had to drop much that came back to me as I looked back on my life in art. I do not speak, for instance, of many people who worked with us in the Art Theatre some of them still very successful and popular and others no longer alive. I do not speak of the hard work put in by Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko as a stage director and in his other capacities, nor of the creative endeavour of my other colleagues, the actors of the Moscow Art Theatre, who have influenced my life too. I do not mention the administrative personnel and the stage hands, with whom we have lived in concord for many years and who love the theatre and, together with us, have made many sacrifices for it. I do not even name many of the friends of our theatre-all those whose attitude to our art has facilitated our work and created, so to speak, the atmosphere necessary for our activity.

Briefly, in its present form the book is in no way a story of the Art Theatre. It speaks only of my quests in art and serves as a sort of preface for my other book in which I shall describe the results of my quests-my methods of actor’s creation and how to approach it.

K. STANISLAVSKY

April 1925

Translated from the Russian by G. Ivanov-Mumjiev and designed by Y. Krasny.

The book was translated published in by Foreign Languages Publishing House.

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Preface to the First Russian Edition 9

ARTISTIC CHILDHOOD

Obstinacy 13
The Circus 20
Puppet Theatre 30
The Italian Opera 32
Pranks 36
Studies 41
The Maly Theatre 47
My Debut 53
Actors in Real Life 60
Music 65
Dramatic School 74

ARTISTIC ADOLESCENCE

The Alexeyev Circle 89
Rival 100
Interregnum 103

ARTISTIC YOUTH

The Society of Art and Literature 119
First Season 122
A Happy Accident 130
Restraint 135
Two Steps Backwards 139
When You Act an Evil Man, Look to See Where He Is Good 143
Characterization 146
New Perplexities 151
The Meiningen Players 156
Trade Experience 159
First Experience as a Director 162
Personal Success 165
Lev Tolstoi 168
Success 173
Passion for Production Tasks 180
Experiments with Professional Actors 185
Othello 193
A Castle in Turin 205
The Sunken Bell 209
A Memorable Meeting 216
Preparing for the New Season 222
The First Season 241
The Productions of the Moscow Art Theatre 247
The Line of the Fantastic 252
Symbolism and Impressionism 258
Intuition and Feeling 260
Chekhov’s Arrival — Unde Vanya 268
The Journey to the Crimea 273
The Three Sisters 277
The First Trip to Petersburg 283
Performing in the Provinces 288
Morozov and the New Theatre 289
The Social-Political Line 292
Maxim Gorky 297
The Lower Depths 303
The Line of Manners 309
The Costume Drama Line Instead of Intuition 311
The Cherry Orchard 316
The Studio on Povarskaya 329
The First Foreign Tour 338

ARTISTIC MATURITY

The Discovery of Old Truths 345
The Drama of Life 357
Ilya Sats and Leopold Sulerzhitsky 361
Black Velvet 364
The Life of Man 370
A Visit to Maeterlinck 374
A Month in the Country 378
Duncan and Craig 385
Experimenting with My “System” 401
The Art Theatre’s First Studio 405
Cabbage Parties and “Chauve-Souris” 415
The Voice 419
Revolution 427
Catastrophe 431
Cain 434
The Opera Studio 439
Departure and Return 448
Results and the Future 458
Appendix 467
Notes 489
Name Index 500