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The Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology or ISUCT is a research facility and university located in Ivanovo - administrative center of Ivanovo Oblast. It was founded in 1918 - as Chemical Faculty of Ivanovo-Vosnessensk Polytechnic Institute. In 1930 Ivanovo-Vosnessensk Polytechnic Institute was split into four independent schools Ivanovo Textile Institute, Ivanovo Power Institute, Civil Engineering Institute and Ivanovo Institute of Chemistry and Technology (ICTI). In 1992 ICTI gained new status and renamed to Ivanovo State Academy of Chemistry and Technology and in 1998 it was renamed again to became Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology.
ISUCT trained more than 35.000 engineers, about 1000 Candidates of Science and over 90 Doctors of Science during years of its existence.
External links
Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology home page (http://www.isuct.ru/eng/index.shtml)
Engelis became a student of the University of Latvia in 1936 and after graduating from the university he became there an assistant and was instructing classes in theoretical mechanics, calculus, differential equations, number theory.
In the 1960's J. Barzdins was investigating universality problems in the theory of growing automata, estimated the complexity of symmetry recognition by Turing machines, and explored the behavior of different type of automata depending on its topology.
Rusins-Martins Freivalds was born in Latvia in 1942.