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This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS translation reproduces an article by Olga Kuznetsova that ran in the St. Petersburg newspaper Nevskoye Vremya on 20 November 1992. It profiles the Scientific-Research Navigational-Hydrographic Institute of the Russian Ministry of Defense, known as NINGI, a formerly secret institute that is now opening up to civilian partners after funding cuts. The article notes in passing that UFO-ology was within the institute's research field and that it gathered a lot of material on the subject over many years.
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Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1993 Document 7 of 19 Page 1 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Document Date: 20 Nov 92 Status: [STAT] Category: [CAT] Report Type: JPRS report Report Date: Report Number: JPRS-UMA-93-003 UDC Number: Author(s): Olga Kuznetsova: ''It Was Silly to Keep Us in the Background''] Headline: Conversion: Navigation Institute Source Line: 93UM0266A St. Petersburg NEVSKOYE VREMYA in Russian 20 Nov 92 p 2 Subslug: [Article by Olga Kuznetsova: ''It Was Silly to Keep Us in the Background''] FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Article by Olga Kuznetsova: 'It Was Silly to Keep Us in the Background'] 2. [Text] Passing through the streets of St. Petersburg, we scarcely pay attention to many institutions whose entryways have no plaques or signs explaining what department is located there. One such anonymous building is located on Vasilyevskiy island, not far from the Harbor. But just recently a sign was hung up: NINGI MO RF, which means Scientific-Research Navigational-Hydrographic Institute of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. 3. I was the first newspaper person to cross the threshold of this institute, which on the inside is more reminiscent of a military unit than a scientific research institute. 4. Practically all national research in the field of navigation and hydrography has been concentrated here for dozens of years, on the corner of Bolshoy Prospekt and the Kozhevennaya Line. Here they developed and improved the onboard apparatus now in use (and not only by the military) without which not a single modern vessel would brave the open sea, and also the means for navigational equipment of sea routes and ports, and hydrographic and hydrometerological equipment. It was within these walls that a system was developed for determining the location of ships and other objects using artificial satellites. Even UFO-ology was within the field of research of the institute, and for many years they accumulated a lot of material here in this field. An enormous intellectual potential is concentrated at the institute: dozens of specialists have been awarded scientific degrees, and it has its own doctoral council. 5. It is a secret to no one that such scientific institutes,
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.