A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR

This translation of A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR makes descriptions of the antennas and instrumentation used in the USSR, the astronomical discoveries, as well as interesting personal backgrounds of many of the early key players in Soviet radio astronomy available in the English language for the first time. This book is a collection of memoirs recounting an interesting but largely still dark era of Soviet astronomy. The arrangement of the essays is determined primarily by the time when radio astronomy studies began at the institutions involved. These include the Lebedev Physical Institute (FIAN), Gorkii State University and the affiliated Physical-Technical Institute (GIFTI), Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical institute (GAISH) and Space Research Institute (IKI), the Department of Radio Astronomy of the Main Astronomical Observatory in Pulkovo (GAO), Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine (SSR), Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (IRE), Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Ionosphere and Radio-Wave Propagation Institute (IZMIRAN), Siberian Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Ionosphere and Radio-Wave Propagation (SibIZMIRAN), the Radio Astrophysical Observatory of the Latvian Academy of Sciences and Leningrad State University.

A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR is a fascinating source of information on a past era of scientific culture and fields of research including the Soviet SETI activities. Anyone interested in the recent history of science will enjoy reading this volume.

• Academy of Sciences of the USSR
• Astronomy in the Soviet Union
• Astronomy in the USSR
• Essays on the History of Radio
• History of astronomy
• History of radio astronomy
• Radio interferometry
• Radio receivers
• Radio telescopes

• , Institute of Radio Astronomy, National Academy of Sciences, Kharkov, Ukraine

  S. Y. Braude

• , Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

  A. E. Salomonovich, R. L. Sorochenko, A. D. Kuzmin

• Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, Byurakan, Armenia

  V. A. Samanian

• , Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

  I. S. Shklovskii

• Radio Physical Research Institute, Novgorod, Russia

  V. S. Troitskii

• National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, USA

  K. I. Kellermann

• , Institute of Radio Engineering and Elect, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

  B. A. Dubinskii

• , Central Astronomical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

  N. L. Kaidanovskii, A. P. Molchanov, Yu. N. Pariiskii

• , Lebedev Physical Institute, Astro Space Center, Moscow, Russia

  N. S. Kardashev

• , Radio Physical Research Institute, Gorkii Physical-Technical Research Insti, Gorkii, Russia

  M. M. Kobrin

• , Inst. of Radio Engin. and Electrical Eng, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

  O. N. Rzhiga

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