From Moscow with love

One of the less researched aspects of postcolonial India’s “progressive” culture is its Soviet connection. Starting in the 1950s and consolidating in the 1960s, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics invested in building up “committed” networks amongst writers, directors, actors, and other theater- and film-practitioners across India. Thus, an entire generation of cultural professionals was initiated into the anticolonial solidarity of emerging Afro-Asian nations that were seen, and portrayed, by the Soviets as being victims of “Western” imperialism. The aspirational figure of the New Soviet Man was celebrated through the rise of a new form of “transactional sociality” (Westlund 2003). This paper looks at selected cases of cultural diplomacy—through the lens of cultural history—between the USSR and India for two decades after India’s Independence, exploring the possibility of theorizing it from the perspective of an anticolonial cultural solidarity that allowed agency to Indian interlocutors

A feasibility study for implementing advanced control of a heating system

The article justifies the necessity of implementation of a new technique of controlling heat consumption by a heating system. The formation of a heat carrier’s parameters from the beginning of heat generation until supply to the consumer’s premises has been discussed. An analysis of heat energy overconsumption in the period of increased external air temperature during automatic regulation in accordance with external air temperature is presented. The parameters not accounted for in the generation of a controlling signal under the current practices of regulating the heating of buildings