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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00787R000500130081-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 13, 1998
• Sequence Number: 81
• Publication Date: September 28, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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28 SEP 61
FBIS UNPUBLISHED
IRKUTSK RADIATION LAB -- A SCIENTIFIC STATION TO STUDY SOLAR RADIATION
IS BEING SET UP BY
THE USSR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES IN THE SPURS OF THE EASTERN
MORE
SAYANY RANGE
THAN 2,000 TWO THOUSAND METERS ABOVE SEA LEVEL. THE
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STATION WILL STUDY
THE EFFECTS OF SOLAR RADIATION ON THE IONOSPHERE AND ON
THE PROPAGATION OF
RADIOWAVES ON THE EARTH. THEY WILL ALSO CONDUCT OBSERVATIONS
OF COSMIC RAYS AND
STUDY TERRESTRIAL ELECTRIC CURRENTS AND THE TERRESTRIAL
MAGNETIC FIELD.
(MOSCOW TASS ENGLISH EUROPE 1331 GMT 28 SEPTEMBER 1961--L)
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12.60 326a EDIT10N9.
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High altitude Observation Station in the South of Siberia
According to a news item (Ref. 6, 30 Sept 1961, p. 1) the first high
altitude station of the Sun Service in the eastern part of the USSR is
being opened in Sayan Mts. at an altitude of over 2,000 m. above sea level.
The station belongs to the mountain-solar expedition oOf the ofstheute of an
Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiow Propagation
Branch, USSR Academy of Sciences. servations The Sayan high mountains were chosen dars~,iyearfionothe average)binathat region.
the Sun is covered by clouds only 17 days
The transparent, noticeably rarified air permits to conduct observations of the
solar disk without the usual interferences.
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