text: geology. agriculture, social sciences, e!ectrlcal engineering, chemistry end pharmacent'cs. medicine and administration. _The. ftrst graduates left the lnstltut. fn 1968. The Rangoon technical higher technological Institute has become the first education establ lshment In Buraa. ·Its 8 · ,!53 faculties trained more than 6 thousand specialists In construc~lon. mechanics. chemistry, elec~rlclty, etc. In some cases national technical Inst-Itutes are created on the basis of technical secondary school~ and ~rofesslonal­ technlcal training centres built with the USSR assistance. As an example one may cite Nigeria where In 1975 fn a training cen.tre In Varrl classes were opened to train 500 skilled oil-workers; In 1976 the centre was transformed Into ·a petroleum Institute. Beginning with 1978 the country annually receives Its own specia­lists who graduate from the Institute and work ln.the petroleum Industry -the main branch of the natlo.nal economy. They Include specialists oil and gas recovery. s~rvlclng of refinery equip­ ment, etc. Parallel to training Nigerian students the Soviet teachers and specialists mounte~ and put Into operation the necessary equipment, Improved teaching programmes and 'lectures and. trained Nigerian teachers and Instructors so that they would be able to carry out educational process Independently. During 1975-83 period more than 900 graduates from the six faculties o·i this unique educat-Ional establishment for training englnee!jo tor the leading branch of the Nigerian economy r~celved .their diplomas. In 1983, 500 more students, some of them from other African countries, ·were studying at the Institute In Varrl. The Soviet Union renders assistance to. 29 developing countries In designing and constructing 470 professional­ technical training centres out of which more than 250 are already In operation. By the end of 1983 the training centres prepared altogether over 490 thousand skllted workers In mass and the most needed trades, Including about 170 thousand workers In Egypt, 100 
analysis: The text appears to be discussing the Soviet Union's assistance in developing the education and training of specialists in various fields, particularly in Africa. The text highlights the establishment of professional-technical training centers and the training of skilled workers in fields such as construction, mechanics, chemistry, and electricity. The text also mentions the training of Nigerian students and the transformation of a training center into a petroleum institute.