The decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) On the Socialist Competition for a Worthy Observance of the Twenty-fifth Congress of the CPSU found a warm response among all co-workers of our school. This decree provides collectives of scientific institutions and higher education institutions with a militant action program, inspires deep and critical analysis of the results that have been attained, and orients us toward solving the most important problems in the struggle to accelerate the rate of scientific-technological progress. The communists of one of the oldest higher technical education institutions see their paramount duty to lie in strengthening and developing labor activism and in imparting still greater scope and a high degree of effectiveness to the socialist competition preceding the Congress.