I am working on a background for a new RPG character. I have some flexibility in dates, but I am a bit confused and am trying to map everything out. My character is a female scientist who specializes in plasma physics. Her power armor is powered by a Tokamak Reactor. I would like her to have studied under or been mentored by Lev Artsimovich who
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As I know the Ioffe Institute is a research institute, not education one. So there are no students there, but she can be a postgraduate student.
The structure of soviet high education.
Graduate - 5-6 years
Postgraduate (candidate or PhD by american system) - 3,5 year
Often the postgraduate that period was possible only after 2 or three years of work. But if she was very smart and good in physics she could get the possibility of postgraduate just after the high education was finished and theoretically she could work with Artsimovich was beeing a student as the low level employee.
I think it will be more realistic to make her be born a little bit earlier, for instance, 1946-1948.
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>>Shortly we had
>>1. Secondary school - 8 or 10 (then 9 or 11 years)
wasn't it 7 back then? Rather then 8?
>>2. after 8 (9) years a person could go to the something like college where he/she got secondary and professional education. Of course this kind of education could be got after the secondary one (10 or 11 years). These were professions like nurse, hairdresser, locksmith etc.
I think in the closest thing they have in the US is the vocational school. Or had, having never encountered one I am not sure. But basically it would be like a high school plus vocational training plus some college-level classes, close to the Associate degree. If you went to college after graduating from one, you would be allowed to skip couple of years.
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First place to go: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and being smart enough she could get an internship at Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. Further it could be Leningrad State University and one of many colleges in Novosibirsk's Akademgorodok.
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However, note that Plasma studies department was open there only in 1972, and there was lots of reorganizations and moves during that time. I think it's possible for Artsimovich to give some guest lectures, but it would be unlikely for him to be very involved with the students.
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