What did Russian scientists attempt to do beginning in 1970?

If one were to put the y value into the equation, they could find out what x is for a certain value of y.  putting in the value of y (1), we get the equation: 1=4x-12=4xx=0.5this means that the value of x when why is 1 is x=0.5

Year  1936,  lehman predicted that the earths 'inner core' is solid. she observed that the seismic signals during her study were bent and did not pass through instead bouncing back. later it was confirmed that the earth's inner core was solid made up of nickel-iron and had a molten outer core.