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.
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