Vocabulary:

armed forces – вооруженные силы;

a military district – военный округ;

military school of the railroad forces and communications – высшее военное училище железнодорожных войск и военных сообщений,

Military academy of rear services (logistics) and transport – Военная академия тыла и транспорта;

Deputy Head of Military Railway Communications Service – заместитель начальника службы военных сообщений;

deputy director – заместитель генерального директор;

Board of directors – Совет директоров;

Commissions of Inquiry and rendering aid to victims of the plane crashes – комиссия по расследованию причин и оказанию помощи пострадавшим в авиакатастрофах;

to retire – уходить в отставку;

Colonel of reserve – полковник запаса;

assistant professor – доцент;

senior lecturer – здесь – преподаватель;

to be rewarded – быть награжденным;

to assume the office – вступать в должность.

Questions to the text:

1 What was the military career of Igor Y. Levitin?

2. What education did he get?

3. Which companies did Levitin work?

4. What experience did he gain in governmental work?

5. What are Levitin`s current position, degree and rank?

THE ROSTOV STATE TRANSPORT UNIVERSITY –

A LARGE EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMPLEX

IN THE SOUTH OF RUSSIA

Scientific activity in the Rostov State Transport University

The scientific activity in the University is carried out under the guidance of an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an Honoured Man of Science of the Russian Federation, the Rector of the Rostov State Transport University Vladimir Ivanovitch Kolesnikov. Over 40 academicians and corresponding members of different academies, over 70 doctors of Sciences, professors and over 300 candidates of Sciences, associate professors, as well as researchers and engineers perform fundamental and scientific research work in RSTU. There are also a number of centers in the University: the research and experimental centre «Kriotransenergo» , the research laboratory «The Systems of dispatcher control», the innovation and research center «Safety on transport», a scientific and the research laboratory «Electromotor», the scientific and research center «Transport tribotechnics», the branch scientific and research laboratory «Regional transport progammes».

The University collaborates with the institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences in many scientific areas: theoretical physics, tribotechnics, the problems of technogenic safety, superconductive technologies for the railway transport and others. The collective of scientists have proven their ability to carry out scientific work from fundamental research to the finished model. The high level of research is proved by the fact that the scientists of the University have repeatedly received the competitive grants from the Russian fund of fundamental research, the ministries and departments with budgetary funding.

In the recent years the University has continued the development of existing and new scientific schools. Some of them are known not only in our country but also abroad. The school of tribology is the most venerable in our University. The practical result of the research work is the creation of composite materials preventing hard deterioration and new technologies for lubricating the friction pair.

The collective of scientists perform research work aimed at solving the integrated problems: optimizing the reference terminal (station) technology, developing the united technology of moving, accumulating and forming cargo shipload lots.

The outcomes of the research work are published in the collections of scientific papers and monographies. They develop in the patents and copyrights for inventions, result in defending doctoral dissertations. Since October 1999 the scientific journal «Vestnic RGUPS» has been published in RSTU. It highlights the actual and topical problems of the field and the research work of the Russian scientists and their foreign colleagues.