I'm searching for a technical journal which, in the 1960's, was known
as Tr. Kazansk. Kim. Technol. Inst.  Where could I find reference to
it and obtain specific papers therein?

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Request for Question Clarification by markj-ga on 28 Aug 2004 09:44 PDT

drace --

I can give you the name of the journal and the Russian institution
that published it.  That institution is no longer in existence, but I
can give you contact information for the institution that absorbed it
in 1996.  That successor university has a very large library of
scientific materials, and I expect that you would be able to locate a
old copy of the journal in question through that institution. I expect
that you will be able to communicate with them in English by fax,
phone or e-mail.   Would this informaton be a sufficient answer?

makj-ga

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Clarification of Question by drace-ga on 28 Aug 2004 11:29 PDT

Yes, that would be very satisfactory; thank you for the quick response!

drace --

Thanks for your clarification, and I too am happy to have been able to
provide you with a quick response.

The journal you have cited is called "Transactions of Kazan Chemical
Engineering Institute."   That institute was located in Kazan, Russia,
and was "reformed" in 1996 into what is now called, in English, "Kazan
State Technological University."

Here is the reference to the journal that gave me its name:
Turpion.org: Shvekhgeimer (See entry No. 306)
http://www.turpion.org/references/rc/rc285.htm

Here is an excerpt from a description of the history of the
"Educational-Scientific Information Center" of Kazan State
Technological University that includes its relationship with the
former institution, which it translates as the "Kazan Chemical
Technological Institute":

"In 1992, The Educational-Scientific Information Center was founded at
Kazan Chemical-technological Institute. The center included the
Fundamental Library, the editorial department, a printing house, an
offset laboratory, a photo laboratory, a service of standards, the
department of scientific and technical information, a training course
on the science and practice of patenting and protection of author's
rights and bibliography.

"In 1996, Kazan Chemical-Technological Institute was reformed into
Kazan State Technological University."

My Kazan: The Technological University's Library
http://kazan.ws/cgi-bin/eng/view.pl?a=fa&id=379&mr=4&idr=51



The last entry in the CV of this professor confirms that the former
"Kazan Chemical Technological Institute" and the "Kazan Chemical
Engineering Institute" are simply different translations of the same
institute, which, as noted above, is now Kazan State Technological
University:
Kazan State Technological University: Nahil S. Akhmetov 
http://www.kstu.ru/kstu/english/personal/ahmetns/ahmetns.htm


Now that we know where the journal that interests you was published,
you should be able to locate a copy of a specific issue by contacting
the University.  The English-language version of its website is under
construction, so most of its pages are in Russian only.  However, I
have been able to find English-language contact information for you:

Address: 
Kazan State Technological University. 
?. Marx St, 68. 
?azan 420015. 
??tarstan. Russia. 
E-mail: office@kstu.ru 
Internet site: http://kstu.ru 
Tel./Fax: +7 (8432) 365768; +7 (8432) 367542; +7 (8432) 382588 

KSTU
http://www.kstu.ru/kstu/home.htm


And, here is a link to more English-language information about the University:
KSTU: Welcome to Kazan State Technological University
http://www.kstu.ru/kstu/home.htm


Additional Information:

I hope that the information above will lead you to what you need.  In
case more potential information sources might be useful, here are
links to two possibilities:


A particularly promising additional source of information is this
publisher of English-language versions of Russian scientific journals.
 While it does not appear that it deals in older publications like the
one that interests you, it might be a very useful source of
information on how to locate a copy:
Turpion Publications: Science Journals From Russia 
http://www.turpion.org/


Finally, here is a list of accredited universities in Russia, with
links to their websites:
Accrediting.com: Russian Universities
http://www.accrediting.com/russianuniversities.htm



Search Strategy:

I was led to the complete name of the journal with Google searches
using some (but not all) of the language you provided.  I only used
some because I suspected (correctly, it turned out), that spellings of
the English translation of the citation might differ.  The first
successful search was this simple one:

kazansk
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=kazansk


The first page of the results of that search indicated that the
abbreviation I may be looking for might include "khim" and "tekhnol",
and I found the translation of the complete name on the first page of
results for the following search:

kazansk khim
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&q=kazansk+khim


The rest of the task was employing various Google searches to find
sufficient English-language about the named institute and its history
to make me reasonably confident that I had enough authoritative
information to give you and that I wasn't missing something.  This, of
course, was made more difficult by language and translation issues,
but I think I was successful.


Based on your clarification, I am confident that this is the
information you are seeking, and I am happy to have been able to
provide it to you promptly.  If anything is unclear, please ask for
clarification before rating the answer.


markj-ga

This was my first use of Google Answers, and I'm extremely favorably
impressed with the completeness of the answer, and also with its
timeliness!

drace --

Thanks much for the kind words and the five stars.

markj-ga