D.48. In Soviet times, the institution was called Astronomical Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Astro advice).

Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
(INASAN)
International name Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INASAN)
Based
Director D. V. Bisikalo
Employees more than 100 people
Location Russia Russia, Moscow
Legal address 119017, Moscow, st. Pyatnitskaya, 48
Website inasan.rssi.ru

INASAN executives (chairmen, directors)

Story

The proposal to create an Astronomical Council at the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1936 was made by academicians A. E. Fersman and V. G. Fesenkov. This project was approved by the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences on December 20, 1936 - this date is considered to be the day of the creation of the Astronomical Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences - in the future, the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the first years of its work, the Astronomical Council was tasked with coordinating all research work in the field of ground-based optical astronomy. Then the tasks included such activities as: supplying photographic materials and light detectors to the observatory, representing USSR astronomers at the IAU, preparing scientific expositions in the USSR and abroad. For most of the Soviet period, the Astronomical Council consisted of two structures completely different in function - a scientific council and a research institution.

The first own research work in the Astronomical Council was the “General Catalog of Variable Stars” (GCVS), which the IAU commissioned Soviet astronomers to compile in 1946. With the advent of the space era, the most important area in the work of the Astronomical Council became the subject of observations of Artificial Earth Satellites (AES). In the mid-60s of the 20th century, the Astronomical Council began to create an international satellite observation network. By 1975, there were already 28 specialized observation posts in Eurasia, Africa and South America, created with the participation of Soviet scientists. The Astronomical Council created two experimental stations: Zvenigorodskaya (1958) and Simeizskaya (1975).

In December 1990, in connection with a wide range of scientific problems that were solved on the basis of the institution, the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences ordered the transformation of the Astronomical Council into the Institute of Astronomy of the USSR Academy of Sciences. And in 1991, the institute received its modern name: Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INASAN). But in parallel, there is also a coordination council called the Astronomical Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

INASAN's work at the beginning of the 21st century

Many INASAN employees are members of the International Astronomical Union and serve on more than 20 different commissions under the IAU. Another 12 employees are members of the European Astronomical Society (EAS). On September 15, 2006, the Expert Working Group of the RAS Council on Space on the problem of asteroid-comet hazard was created, headed by B. M. Shustov (Director of INASAN).

Head of the department
Corresponding Member of the RAS Professor Cherepashchuk Anatoly Mikhailovich

Department of Experimental Astronomy

Head of the department
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Boyarchuk Alexander Alekseevich

The beginning of astrophysical research at Moscow University was laid by F.A. Bredikhin (1831-1904). In 1872, he gave the first public lectures, which can be considered as the beginning of the teaching of astrophysics (the term “astrophysics” was not yet used in Russia at that time). For the first time such a course was taught by S.N. Blazhko, mentioned in the 1918-1919 timetable. (the course was called “Fundamentals of Astrophysics”). Soon after this, in 1922, the State Astrophysical Institute (1922-1931) was created, which then became part of the State Astronomical Institute named after. PC. Sternberg at the University (SAI MSU). Since that time, all astrophysics departments of Moscow State University have been based on the territory of this institute, and their scientific and teaching activities use the scientific potential of the SAI MSU.

State Astronomical Institute named after. P.K. Sternberg - a base for teaching astronomy to students.

Although the number of departments in the astronomy department varied over the years, the department of astrophysics always remained the leading department of this department, accepting the bulk of the students. Currently, students are trained in astrophysical specializations at two departments of astrophysical profile: the Department of Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy and the Department of Experimental Astronomy. The scientific and pedagogical activity of the department was formed largely thanks to the active work of such outstanding astronomers and teachers as F.A. Bredikhin (1831-1904), V.K. Tserassky (1849-1925), A.A. Belopolsky (1854-1934), S.N. Blazhko (1870-1956), V.G. Fesenkov (1889-1972), P.P. Parenago (1906-1960), B.V. Kukarkin (1909-1977), Yu.N. Lipsky (1909-1978), G.F. Sitnik (1911-1996), D.Ya. Martynov (1906-1989), and living scientists and professors. A fundamental role in the formation of modern topics of scientific research conducted at the department was also played by major scientists, the founders of entire scientific fields, professors and researchers of the SAI B.A. Vorontsov-Velyaminov (1904-1994), S.B. Pikelner (1921-1975), I.S. Shklovsky (1916-1985), Ya.B. Zeldovich (1914-1987) and their students.

Professor D.Ya. Martynov (1906-1989),
one of the founders of the Department of Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR.

In 1995, the Department of Experimental Astronomy was separated from the Department of Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy. Its main task is to train students in areas related to modern observational astrophysics, new radiation detectors and modern data processing methods. The department works in close connection with the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Study work

Currently, the full-time teachers of the astrophysics departments are professors A.V. Zasov, V.M. Lipunov, K.A. Postnov, A.S. Rastorguev, as well as associate professors E.V. Glushkova, E.V. Kononovich, V.G. Kornilov and assistant I.E. Panchenko.

Corresponding member RAS A.M. Cherepashchuk
and Professor A.V. Zasov

In contrast to the curriculum for the specialty "Physics", the curriculum for the specialty "Astronomy" provides for the training of astronomy specialists starting from the 1st semester and reading general departmental disciplines of the specialty before formal distribution to departments. Most of this planned load falls on the teachers of the department of astrophysics and stellar astronomy, which requires full staffing of the department (professors and associate professors in various specializations), despite the relatively small number of student groups in the astronomy department (15-20 people).

Head department of experimental
astronomy academician A.A. Boyarchuk

Departmental special courses are taught starting from the 5th semester. Students are given the opportunity to choose from several dozen special courses in almost all areas of modern astrophysics and stellar astronomy. In total, more than 40 lecture courses are given annually by full-time employees of astrophysical departments, part-time workers and researchers of the SAI MSU. Among them are special courses on the physics of stars and stellar systems, the physics of the interstellar medium, the physics of galaxies, the physics of the Sun and helioseismology, relativistic astrophysics, radio astronomy, cosmic electrodynamics, planetary physics, and methods of practical astrophysics. Several special courses are taught annually by invited employees of other astronomical institutions.

Workshops, summer and educational internships

Starting from the 3rd year, students undergo specialized astrophysical workshops. The 3rd year practicum is introductory and introduces students to the basics of astrophysics, the basic methods of astronomical measurements and illustrates the most important concepts of astrophysics. In the 4th year, students are introduced, first of all, to modern methods of data processing, including spectral and photometric ones. Completing tasks involves extensive use of computer technology. The 5th year practicum involves solving certain astrophysical problems with elements of a creative approach (choosing a calculation technique, key parameters, independent study of theory, etc.).

In addition to participating in the organization and conduct of educational practice in general astronomy at the student observatory of the SAI MSU (in the summer after the 1st year), the department, in accordance with the curriculum of the astronomy department, organizes on-site summer educational practice for students in specialization, and for the 5th year - industrial and pre-graduation practices. In the summer, after the 3rd year, students of the department go to one of the following observatories: Crimean Laboratory of the State Institute of History of Moscow State University (Nauchny village), Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (CRAO) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Nauchny village), Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences (KChR, Bukovo village), Radio Astronomical Observatory Observatory of the AKC FIAN (Moscow region, Pushchino), Simeiz Observatory of the Krasnoyarsk Territory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Simeiz village).

The tower of Europe's largest optical telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Karavaevo-Cherkessia).

The main base used by the Department of Astrophysics is traditionally the Crimean laboratory of the SAI MSU. It is equipped with 4 telescopes with mirror diameters from 50 to 125 cm and a 40-cm refractor, and various receiving equipment.

Classes with astrophysics students at the Zeiss-1000 telescope (SAO RAS) during summer practice.

In addition to educational practices, within the framework of the Federal program “Integration”, starting from 1998, some students of 1-4 years go to carry out practical educational work at the SAO RAS, where the largest astronomical instruments in Europe are located: the 6-meter optical telescope BTA and 600- meter radio telescope RATAN-600. This observatory is equipped with first-class equipment and uses the latest research and data processing techniques to give students the opportunity to fully experience the state of the art in astronomical research. The organization of trips and practical work is led by employees of the department, SAI MSU and SAO RAS. Special training tasks have been developed (and are being developed) for classes conducted at observatories, and methodological guidelines for their implementation. Preparation for completing tasks begins in advance and is carried out in Moscow.

Scientific work

The topics of scientific work of teachers of astrophysical departments and the students they supervise are closely related to the basic scientific departments of SAI.

The main directions of scientific research: relativistic astrophysics, physics and evolution of double stars, study of variable stars, structure and dynamics of the Galaxy and stellar systems, physics of galaxies, solar physics and helioseismology, observational astrophysics. Every year, dozens of articles on work performed by employees, students and graduate students of the departments are published in scientific journals.

International connections

Scientific work at astrophysical departments takes place in close contact with a number of scientific and educational centers in various countries. Among them: University of Montreal (Canada), Capodimonte Observatory (Italy), Astronomical Observatory of Lyon (France), University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), University of Brussels (Belgium), Max Planck Institute (Germany), University of Cardiff (UK), University of Southern California (USA), Côte d'Azur Observatory (France), University of Nice (France), Astronomical Data Center of Strasbourg (France), Center for Theoretical Astrophysics (Denmark), Leading Astrophysical Observatory (Ukraine) , Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (Ukraine), Institute of Astrophysics of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences.

Pre-university education

A lot of work is being done by employees of astrophysical departments with schoolchildren - potential applicants to the Faculty of Physics, as well as teachers of physics and astronomy. This work includes holding Moscow, Moscow region, Russian and international Olympiads in astronomy and space physics, preparatory classes with schoolchildren (Astroschool of the State Institute of Artillery), lectures with teachers of physics and astronomy of the Moscow districts, writing textbooks for schools, as well as popular science articles and books in various magazines and encyclopedias.

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Information about the astronomy department and astrophysics departments, courses taught, organization of practices, work of special workshops, etc. can be found on the following pages.

Legal address

191187, St. Petersburg, emb. Kutuzova, 10

Website
  • 191187, St. Petersburg, emb. Kutuzova, 10
  • 197110, St. Petersburg, st. Zhdanovskaya, 8
  • 188833, Leningrad region, Priozersky district, Svetloye village (Svetloye observatory)
  • 369140, Karachevo-Cherkess Republic, Zelenchuksky district (Zelenchukskaya observatory)
  • 671021, Republic of Buryatia, Tunkinsky district, Badary tract (Badary observatory)

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Let's imagine two people who went out to duel with swords according to all the rules of fencing art: fencing lasted for quite a long time; suddenly one of the opponents, feeling wounded - realizing that this was not a joke, but concerned his life, threw down his sword and, taking the first club he came across, began to swing it. But let us imagine that the enemy, having so wisely used the best and simplest means to achieve his goal, at the same time inspired by the traditions of chivalry, would want to hide the essence of the matter and would insist that he, according to all the rules of art, won with swords. One can imagine what confusion and ambiguity would arise from such a description of the duel that took place.
The fencers who demanded fighting according to the rules of art were the French; his opponent, who threw down his sword and raised his club, were Russians; people who try to explain everything according to the rules of fencing are historians who wrote about this event.
Since the fire of Smolensk, a war began that did not fit any previous legends of war. The burning of cities and villages, retreat after battles, Borodin’s attack and retreat again, abandonment and fire of Moscow, catching marauders, rehiring transports, guerrilla warfare - all these were deviations from the rules.
Napoleon felt this, and from the very time when he stopped in Moscow in the correct pose of a fencer and instead of the enemy’s sword he saw a club raised above him, he never ceased to complain to Kutuzov and Emperor Alexander that the war was waged contrary to all the rules (as if there were some rules for killing people). Despite the complaints of the French about non-compliance with the rules, despite the fact that the Russians, the people of higher position, seemed for some reason ashamed to fight with a club, but wanted, according to all the rules, to take the position en quarte or en tierce [fourth, third], to make a skillful lunge in prime [the first], etc. - the club of the people's war rose with all its formidable and majestic strength and, without asking anyone's tastes and rules, with stupid simplicity, but with expediency, without considering anything, it rose, fell and nailed the French until those until the entire invasion was destroyed.
And good for the people who, not like the French in 1813, saluted according to all the rules of art and turned the sword over with the hilt, gracefully and courteously handing it over to the magnanimous winner, but good for the people who, in a moment of trial, without asking how they acted according to the rules others in similar cases, with simplicity and ease, pick up the first club he comes across and nail it with it until in his soul the feeling of insult and revenge is replaced by contempt and pity.

One of the most tangible and beneficial deviations from the so-called rules of war is the action of scattered people against people huddled together. This kind of action always manifests itself in a war that takes on a popular character. These actions consist in the fact that, instead of becoming a crowd against a crowd, people disperse separately, attack one by one and immediately flee when they are attacked in large forces, and then attack again when the opportunity presents itself. This was done by the Guerillas in Spain; this was done by the mountaineers in the Caucasus; the Russians did this in 1812.
A war of this kind was called partisan and they believed that by calling it that, they explained its meaning. Meanwhile, this kind of war not only does not fit any rules, but is directly opposite to the well-known and recognized infallible tactical rule. This rule says that the attacker must concentrate his troops in order to be stronger than the enemy at the moment of battle.
Guerrilla warfare (always successful, as history shows) is the exact opposite of this rule.
This contradiction occurs because military science accepts the strength of troops as identical with their number. Military science says that the more troops, the more power. Les gros bataillons ont toujours raison. [Right is always on the side of large armies.]
In saying this, military science is similar to mechanics, which, based on considering forces only in relation to their masses, would say that forces are equal or unequal to each other because their masses are equal or unequal.
Force (amount of motion) is the product of mass and speed.
In military affairs, the strength of an army is also the product of the mass by something, some unknown x.
Military science, seeing in history countless examples of the fact that the mass of troops does not coincide with the strength, that small detachments defeat large ones, vaguely recognizes the existence of this unknown factor and tries to find it either in geometric construction, then in weapons, or - the most common - in the genius of the commanders. But substituting all these multiplier values ​​does not produce results consistent with historical facts.
Meanwhile, one only has to abandon the false view that has been established, for the sake of the heroes, about the reality of the orders of the highest authorities during the war in order to find this unknown x.
X this is the spirit of the army, that is, a greater or lesser desire to fight and expose oneself to the dangers of all the people who make up the army, completely regardless of whether people fight under the command of geniuses or non-geniuses, in three or two lines, with clubs or guns firing thirty once a minute. People who have the greatest desire to fight will always put themselves in the most favorable conditions for a fight.
The spirit of the army is a multiplier for mass, giving the product of force. To determine and express the value of the spirit of the army, this unknown factor, is the task of science.
This task is possible only when we stop arbitrarily substituting instead of the value of the entire unknown X those conditions under which force is manifested, such as: orders of the commander, weapons, etc., taking them as the value of the multiplier, and recognize this unknown in all its integrity, that is, as a greater or lesser desire to fight and expose oneself to danger. Then only by expressing known historical facts in equations and by comparing the relative value of this unknown can we hope to determine the unknown itself.

Institute of Astronomy RAS

Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
(INASAN)
International name

Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INASAN)
Based
Director

B. M. Shustov
Employees

more than 100 people
Location
Legal address

119017, Moscow, st. Pyatnitskaya, 48
Website

Institute of Astronomy RAS- one of the institutes of the Division of Physical Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Currently located in Moscow on the street. Pyatnitskaya, 48. In Soviet times, the institution was called Astronomical Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Astro advice).

INASAN executives (chairmen, directors)

  • 1937-1939 - V. G. Fesenkov - first chairman of the Astro Council
  • 1939-1963 - academician. A. A. Mikhailov - Chairman of the Astro Council
  • 1963-1987 - corresponding member. E. R. Mustel - Chairman of the Astro Council
  • 1987-1990 - academician. A. A. Boyarchuk - Chairman of the Astro Council
  • 1991-2003 - academician A. A. Boyarchuk - first director of INASAN
  • since 2003 - corresponding member. RAS B. M. Shustov - Director of INASAN

Story

The proposal to create an Astronomical Council at the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1936 was made by academicians A. E. Fersman and V. G. Fesenkov. This project was approved by the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences on December 20, 1936 - this date is considered to be the day of the creation of the Astronomical Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences - in the future, the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the first years of its work, the Astronomical Council was tasked with coordinating all research work in the field of ground-based optical astronomy. Then the tasks included such activities as: supplying photographic materials and light detectors to the observatory, representing USSR astronomers at the IAU, preparing scientific expositions in the USSR and abroad. For most of the Soviet period, the Astronomical Council consisted of two structures completely different in function - a scientific council and a research institution.

The first own research work in the Astronomical Council was the “General Catalog of Variable Stars” (GCVS), which the IAU commissioned Soviet astronomers to compile in 1946. With the advent of the space era, the most important area in the work of the Astronomical Council became the subject of observations of Artificial Earth Satellites (AES). In the mid-60s of the twentieth century, the Astronomical Council began to create an international satellite observation network. By 1975, there were already 28 specialized observation posts in Eurasia, Africa and South America, created with the participation of Soviet scientists. The Astronomical Council created two experimental stations: Zvenigorodskaya (1958) and Simeizskaya (1975).

In December 1990, in connection with a wide range of scientific problems that were solved on the basis of the institution, the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences ordered the transformation of the Astronomical Council into the Institute of Astronomy of the USSR Academy of Sciences. And in 1991, the institute received its modern name: Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INASAN). But in parallel, there is also a coordination council called the Astronomical Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

INASAN's work at the beginning of the 21st century

Many INASAN employees are members of the International Astronomical Union and serve on more than 20 different commissions under the IAU. Another 12 employees are members of the European Astronomical Society (EAS). On September 15, 2006, the Expert Working Group of the RAS Council on Space on the problem of asteroid-comet hazard was created, headed by B. M. Shustov (Director of INASAN).

Departments of INASAN

  • Department of Physics and Stellar Evolution
  • Department of Nonstationary Stars and Stellar Spectroscopy
  • Department of Physics of Stellar and Planetary Systems
  • Department of Space Astrometry
  • Department of Space Geodesy
  • Astronomical Data Center
  • Terskol branch of INASAN
  • Software and Computer Engineering Group

INASAN Directorate

  • Director of the Institute - Corresponding Member RAS Shustov Boris Mikhailovich
  • Scientific director of the institute - academician Boyarchuk Alexander Alekseevich
    • Deputy Director for Scientific Work - Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Bisikalo Dmitry Valerievich
    • Deputy Director for General Affairs - Kolpakov Anatoly Ivanovich
  • Scientific Secretary of the Institute - Dmitry Aleksandrovich Ptitsyn

Main areas of research

  • Variable stars
  • Satellite observations: visual, photographic and laser
  • Study of the Earth's upper atmosphere
  • Solar Activity
  • Physics of the Moon
  • Physics of solar-terrestrial connections
  • physics and evolution of stars
  • evolution of close binary star systems
  • evolution of stellar pulsations
  • stellar spectroscopy and non-stationary stars
  • patterns of star formation on various space-time scales
  • dynamics of stellar and planetary systems

Achievements

  • 1961 - the world's first experiment in satellite geodesy (together with the Pulkovo Observatory)

Notable employees

Projects

Database: Spacecraft: Observational projects:
  • "Big Chord"

see also

  • Terskol branch of INASAN

Notes

Links

  • “From the Earth to the depths of the Universe”, B. M. Shustov, Earth and the Universe No. 5/2006 - History of INASAN

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  • Department of Physical Sciences RAS
  • Astronomical institutes and institutions
  • Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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119017, Moscow, st. Pyatnitskaya, 48

Website

Institute of Astronomy RAS- one of the institutes of the Division of Physical Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Currently located in Moscow on the street. Pyatnitskaya, no. 48. In Soviet times, the institution was called Astronomical Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Astro advice).

INASAN executives (chairmen, directors)

  • 1937-1939 - V. G. Fesenkov - first chairman of the Astro Council
  • 1939-1963 - academician. A. A. Mikhailov - Chairman of the Astro Council
  • 1963-1987 - corresponding member. E. R. Mustel - Chairman of the Astro Council
  • 1987-1990 - academician. A. A. Boyarchuk - Chairman of the Astro Council
  • 1991-2003 - academician A. A. Boyarchuk - first director of INASAN
  • 2003-2016 - corresponding member. RAS B. M. Shustov - Director of INASAN
  • since 2016 - corresponding member. RAS D. V. Bisikalo - Director of INASAN

Story

The proposal to create an Astronomical Council at the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1936 was made by academicians A. E. Fersman and V. G. Fesenkov. This project was approved by the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences on December 20, 1936 - this date is considered to be the day of the creation of the Astronomical Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences - in the future, the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the first years of its work, the Astronomical Council was tasked with coordinating all research work in the field of ground-based optical astronomy. Then the tasks included such activities as: supplying photographic materials and light detectors to the observatory, representing USSR astronomers at the IAU, preparing scientific expositions in the USSR and abroad. For most of the Soviet period, the Astronomical Council consisted of two structures completely different in function - a scientific council and a research institution.

The first own research work in the Astronomical Council was the “General Catalog of Variable Stars” (GCVS), which the IAU commissioned Soviet astronomers to compile in 1946. With the advent of the space era, the most important area in the work of the Astronomical Council became the subject of observations of Artificial Earth Satellites (AES). In the mid-60s of the twentieth century, the Astronomical Council began to create an international satellite observation network. By 1975, there were already 28 specialized observation posts in Eurasia, Africa and South America, created with the participation of Soviet scientists. The Astronomical Council created two experimental stations: Zvenigorodskaya (1958) and Simeizskaya (1975).

In December 1990, in connection with a wide range of scientific problems that were solved on the basis of the institution, the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences ordered the transformation of the Astronomical Council into the Institute of Astronomy of the USSR Academy of Sciences. And in 1991, the institute received its modern name: Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INASAN). But in parallel, there is also a coordination council called the Astronomical Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

INASAN's work at the beginning of the 21st century

Many INASAN employees are members of the International Astronomical Union and serve on more than 20 different commissions under the IAU. Another 12 employees are members of the European Astronomical Society (EAS). On September 15, 2006, the Expert Working Group of the RAS Council on Space on the problem of asteroid-comet hazard was created, headed by B. M. Shustov (Director of INASAN).

Departments of INASAN

  • Department of Physics and Stellar Evolution
  • Department of Nonstationary Stars and Stellar Spectroscopy
  • Department of Physics of Stellar and Planetary Systems
  • Department of Space Astrometry
  • Department of Space Geodesy
  • Astronomical Data Center
  • Software and Computer Engineering Group

INASAN Directorate

  • Director of the Institute (VRIO) - corresponding member. RAS Bisikalo Dmitry Valerievich
  • Scientific director of the institute - corresponding member. RAS Shustov Boris Mikhailovich
    • Deputy Director for Scientific Work - Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Sachkov Mikhail Evgenievich
    • Deputy Director for General Affairs - Kolpakov Anatoly Ivanovich
  • Scientific Secretary of the Institute - Dmitry Aleksandrovich Ptitsyn

Main areas of research

  • Variable stars
  • Satellite observations: visual, photographic and laser
  • Study of the Earth's upper atmosphere
  • Solar Activity
  • Physics of the Moon
  • Physics of solar-terrestrial connections
  • Physics and evolution of stars
  • Evolution of close binary star systems
  • Evolution of stellar pulsations
  • Stellar spectroscopy and non-stationary stars
  • Regularities of the star formation process on various space-time scales
  • Dynamics of stellar and planetary systems

Achievements

  • 1961 - the world's first experiment in satellite geodesy (together with the Pulkovo Observatory)

Notable employees

Projects

Database: Spacecraft: Observational projects:

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Bennigsen from Gorki descended along the high road to the bridge, which the officer from the mound pointed out to Pierre as the center of the position and on the bank of which lay rows of mown grass that smelled of hay. They drove across the bridge to the village of Borodino, from there they turned left and past a huge number of troops and cannons they drove out to a high mound on which the militia was digging. It was a redoubt that did not yet have a name, but later received the name Raevsky redoubt, or barrow battery.
Pierre did not pay much attention to this redoubt. He did not know that this place would be more memorable for him than all the places in the Borodino field. Then they drove through the ravine to Semenovsky, in which the soldiers were taking away the last logs of the huts and barns. Then, downhill and uphill, they drove forward through broken rye, knocked out like hail, along a road newly laid by artillery along the ridges of arable land to the flushes [a type of fortification. (Note by L.N. Tolstoy.) ], also still being dug at that time.
Bennigsen stopped at the flushes and began to look ahead at the Shevardinsky redoubt (which was ours only yesterday), on which several horsemen could be seen. The officers said that Napoleon or Murat was there. And everyone looked greedily at this bunch of horsemen. Pierre also looked there, trying to guess which of these barely visible people was Napoleon. Finally, the riders rode off the mound and disappeared.
Bennigsen turned to the general who approached him and began to explain the entire position of our troops. Pierre listened to Bennigsen's words, straining all his mental strength to understand the essence of the upcoming battle, but he felt with disappointment that his mental abilities were insufficient for this. He didn't understand anything. Bennigsen stopped talking, and noticing the figure of Pierre, who was listening, he suddenly said, turning to him:
– I think you’re not interested?
“Oh, on the contrary, it’s very interesting,” Pierre repeated, not entirely truthfully.
From the flush they drove even further to the left along a road winding through a dense, low birch forest. In the middle of it
forest, a brown hare with white legs jumped out onto the road in front of them and, frightened by the clatter of a large number of horses, he was so confused that he jumped along the road in front of them for a long time, arousing everyone’s attention and laughter, and only when several voices shouted at him, he rushed to the side and disappeared into the thicket. After driving about two miles through the forest, they came to a clearing where the troops of Tuchkov’s corps, which was supposed to protect the left flank, were stationed.
Here, on the extreme left flank, Bennigsen spoke a lot and passionately and made, as it seemed to Pierre, an important military order. There was a hill in front of Tuchkov’s troops. This hill was not occupied by troops. Bennigsen loudly criticized this mistake, saying that it was crazy to leave the height commanding the area unoccupied and place troops under it. Some generals expressed the same opinion. One in particular spoke with military fervor about the fact that they were put here for slaughter. Bennigsen ordered in his name to move the troops to the heights.
This order on the left flank made Pierre even more doubtful of his ability to understand military affairs. Listening to Bennigsen and the generals condemning the position of the troops under the mountain, Pierre fully understood them and shared their opinion; but precisely because of this, he could not understand how the one who placed them here under the mountain could make such an obvious and gross mistake.
Pierre did not know that these troops were not placed to defend the position, as Bennigsen thought, but were placed in a hidden place for an ambush, that is, in order to be unnoticed and suddenly attack the advancing enemy. Bennigsen did not know this and moved the troops forward for special reasons without telling the commander-in-chief about it.

On this clear August evening on the 25th, Prince Andrei lay leaning on his arm in a broken barn in the village of Knyazkova, on the edge of his regiment’s location. Through the hole in the broken wall, he looked at a strip of thirty-year-old birch trees with their lower branches cut off running along the fence, at an arable land with stacks of oats broken on it, and at bushes through which the smoke of fires—soldiers’ kitchens—could be seen.
No matter how cramped and no one needed and no matter how difficult his life now seemed to Prince Andrei, he, just like seven years ago at Austerlitz on the eve of the battle, felt agitated and irritated.
Orders for tomorrow's battle were given and received by him. There was nothing else he could do. But the simplest, clearest thoughts and therefore terrible thoughts did not leave him alone. He knew that tomorrow's battle was going to be the most terrible of all those in which he participated, and the possibility of death for the first time in his life, without any regard to everyday life, without consideration of how it would affect others, but only according to in relation to himself, to his soul, with vividness, almost with certainty, simply and horribly, it presented itself to him. And from the height of this idea, everything that had previously tormented and occupied him was suddenly illuminated by a cold white light, without shadows, without perspective, without distinction of outlines. His whole life seemed to him like a magic lantern, into which he looked for a long time through glass and under artificial lighting. Now he suddenly saw, without glass, in bright daylight, these poorly painted pictures. “Yes, yes, these are the false images that worried and delighted and tormented me,” he said to himself, turning over in his imagination the main pictures of his magic lantern of life, now looking at them in this cold white light of day - a clear thought of death. “Here they are, these crudely painted figures that seemed to be something beautiful and mysterious. Glory, public good, love for a woman, the fatherland itself - how great these pictures seemed to me, what deep meaning they seemed filled with! And all this is so simple, pale and rough in the cold white light of that morning, which I feel is rising for me. Three major sorrows of his life in particular occupied his attention. His love for a woman, the death of his father and the French invasion that captured half of Russia. “Love!.. This girl, who seemed to me full of mysterious powers. How I loved her! I made poetic plans about love, about happiness with it. Oh dear boy! – he said out loud angrily. - Of course! I believed in some kind of ideal love, which was supposed to remain faithful to me during the whole year of my absence! Like the tender dove of a fable, she was to wither away from me. And all this is much simpler... All this is terribly simple, disgusting!