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Maybe Политех - Polytech(nic).
That's right, it is short for Polytechnic Institute (or probably now a University).
Ah,ok...the lack of the "k" there threw me.
Easily thrown then. What else could an h in Russian be?
I didn't know that it was necessarily Russian. Foreign names/words are routinely used in Russia. There's a place called "Quo Vadis" there for Pete's sake.