Automobile and Highway Institutes

institutes that train engineers in the design, construction, and operation of highways, bridges, and tunnels; in the operation of motor transport and of road-building machines; and in the economics and organization of motor transport. Some institutes also train specialists in the construction of airports, in the automation and integrated automation of construction, in industrial and civil construction, and in hydraulic and pneumatic automation and hydraulic drives.

There were four automobile and highway institutes in the USSR in 1969: Moscow Automobile and Highway Institute (founded 1930), V. V. Kuibyshev Siberian (in Omsk, founded 1930), Kharkov (founded 1930), and Kiev (founded 1944). All automobile and highway institutes have day and evening divisions and the Siberian Institute has a correspondence division; the Kharkov Institute, in Kamenets-Podol’sk, Khmel’nitsk Oblast, has a faculty of general technology. The length of study in the institutes is five to six years, depending on the form of study. Students who have defended a diploma project become transportation engineers, mechanical engineers, and so on. The automobile and highway institutes also have graduate schools that train scholars and instructors. The Moscow Automobile and Highway Institute confers doctor’s and candidate’s degrees, and the Kiev and Kharkov institutes confer candidate’s degrees.