ARKHANGELSK TO UNDERGO SATELLITE SURVEY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005517541
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: March 17, 1991

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Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Status: [STAT]
Document Date: 17 Mar 91 Category: [CAT]
Report Type: JPRS Report Report Date:
Report Number: JPRS-TEN-91-007 UDC Number:
Headline: Arkhangelsk To Undergo Satellite Survey
Source Line: LD1703115391 Moscow All-Union Radio Mayak Nework in
Russian 0640 GMT 17 Mar 91
FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE:
1. [Text] [Announcer] The Cosmodrome and the Far North is the
subject of a report by our correspondent, Valentin Bogomolov.
2. [Bogomolov] On clear, cloudless nights the citizens of
Arkhangelsk sometimes see rockets rising into the sky above the city.
Occasionally they are mistaken for UFOs but, at all events, everybody
here knows that the world's busiest space launch site, Plesetsk, lies
right next door to Arkhangelsk. But what benefit do Arkhangelsk
Oblast and the Far North, which lie under the rockets' flight path,
derive from the Cosmodrome? This is the question we put to Col. Grin,
one of its commanders
3. [Begin recording] [Grin] Recently we launched the Informator
spacecraft. This is the first experiment in a series intended to test
ways of maintaining communications with remote regions of the
country, with settlements, with geological prospecting teams, with
those regions and installations within the country where the use of
traditional means of communication is inappropriate and economically
unviable.
4. Recently, at the end of December, we signed an agreement on the
launch of the Resurs spacecraft, which is designed to survey the
earth's mineral resources and carry out ecological monitoring. In
other words, it will carry out a comprehensive survey of Arkhangelsk
Oblast in the interests of the national economy. It will study the
location of mineral resources, the use of timber resources, and the
ecological situation in Arkhangelsk Oblast.
5. [Bogomolov] I know that geologists are obliged to acquire
satellite charts from the Americans. Can't they see your space
photographs?
6. [Grin] Of course they can. Furthermore, as a deputy in the oblast
soviet, I took part in this work. Maps compiled from satellite
measurements, including ones of other oblasts of the Soviet Union,
were displayed at a session of the oblast soviet. Some of these
measurements were taken during orbits over oblasts which neighbor
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Arkhangelsk Oblast.
7. [Bogomolov] Here is what Gen. Oleynik, the commander of the
Cosmodrome, had to say about the benefit which Arkhangelsk Oblast
derives from the Cosmodrome.
8. [Begin recording] [Oleynik] The program can be adjusted to find
out how man's activity is affecting the environment in Arkhangelsk
Oblast, where the ecological situation has deteriorated lately. But I
do not know the activities of the Cosmodrome for this. Rather it is
the fault of industrial enterprises located in Arkhangelsk Oblast.
Our spacecraft will be able to assess the extent of air and water
pollution, the state of forestry plantations, and the state of the
soil. We will also be able to measure the impact of human activities
in our region on the ozone layer.
9. [Bogomolov] But isn't this very expensive? Every launch costs
many millions of rubles.
10. [Oleynik] The life of man and the future of the region are more
important than the money we plan to spend on this reserch. [end
recording]
11. [Announcer] I wholly agree with that last remark. I remind you
that the life of man is more precious than the money s en on
scientific research, especially as the next generation, in other
words our children, is at stake. One hopes that our small loved ones
will be able to eat clean food, swim in clean rivers, and breathe
clean air. If they do, maybe they will be morally better than us. One
very much hopes so.