The article notes that the main share of the costs for maintaining a fleet of freight cars falls on their current, depot and overhaul repairs. The cost of car repairing is significantly affected by the increase in prices for wheels, new and overhauled wheelsets. The paper explores ways to reduce these costs by increasing the life cycle of the wheelset and extending its service life. The proposals of a number of authors are analyzed to increase the hardness on the surface of the rolling wheel, to reduce the wear of the wheel crest, to make changes to the repair documentation, to introduce new IT services into the car repair production. Issues of the use of blockchain technology for management of the life cycle of wheelsets are considered. Proposals are given for participation of the university scientific community in solving the identified problematic issues.
The article presents a systematic appraisal of the essential Russian- and English-language scholarship on Russian Oriental studies and particularly on Russia's Iranology. However, the main target of this article is to trace the discursive continuities and epistemological shifts which have existed in late imperial, Soviet and, partially, post-Soviet Russia's Oriental studies since the end of the nineteenth century. Drawing on the sources of the main Russian political, military and academic archives, the article offers an assessment of the question of rupture or continuity, which is based on a synthesis of the above-mentioned scholarship from an entirely new angle. Dealing with the seemingly overwhelming watershed of 1917, an analysis is provided that transcends the unhelpful continuity/change dichotomy, putting forward a new interpretation, which is informed by the Foucauldian conceptualization of the productive nature of the power/knowledge nexus.
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