IZMIRAN
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Institute of Earth magnetism, ionosphere and radiowaves propagation named after Nikolay Pushkov of the Russian Academy of Sciences
or IZMIRAN for short - is a scientific institution of RAS
founded in 1939 on the basis of the General Magnetic Survey Bureau and Pavlovskaya Magnetic Observatory of the General Geophysics Observatory.
Nikolay Vasilyevich Pushkov
was an organizator and the first director of the institute.
Located in Troitsk
, Moscow region.
Currently, the IZMIRAN director is Vladimir Dmitrievich Kuznetsov (since 2004).
Institute leads several space satellites programs:
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
or IZMIRAN for short - is a scientific institution of RAS
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
founded in 1939 on the basis of the General Magnetic Survey Bureau and Pavlovskaya Magnetic Observatory of the General Geophysics Observatory.
Nikolay Vasilyevich Pushkov
Nikolay Pushkov
Nikolay Vasilyevich Pushkov was a Soviet scientist, founder of IZMIRAN.Pushkov was born in Druzhno village, Dmitrovskiy uezd, Orlovskaya gubernia, Russian Empire.He defended candidate's dissertation "Theory of Space Magnetism" in 1935 in Leningrad...
was an organizator and the first director of the institute.
Located in Troitsk
Troitsk, Moscow Oblast
Troitsk is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Desna River southwest of Moscow on the Kaluzhskoye Highway. Population: 39,874 ; 32,653 ;...
, Moscow region.
Currently, the IZMIRAN director is Vladimir Dmitrievich Kuznetsov (since 2004).
Institute leads several space satellites programs:
- CORONAS - Complex ORbital Near Earth Solar Activities (experiment ended)
- COMPASS (Kompas) - Complex Orbital Magneto-Plasma Autonomous Small Satellite (2001 in spaceflight)
- Interheliozond
- Intercosmos-19 (Cosmos-1809) - research of the Earth ionospheric structure and of the electromagnetic processes in it (experiment ended)
- Prognoz - a series of magnetometer satellites
- APEX - Active Plasma Experiments