IZMIRAN
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|name = Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation
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|abbreviation = IZMIRAN
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|formation = October 11, 1939Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR SSR No. 1681
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|type = Institute of RAS
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|headquarters =Troitsk, Moscow, Russia
|language = Russian
|leader_title = Directors
|leader_name = Artem Anatolievich Abunin (since 2024)
|main_organ = RAS
|num_staff = 600 including 300 employees{{Cite web|url=https://www.izmiran.ru/info/history|title = History}}
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|website = {{URL|http://www.izmiran.ru/}}
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The Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN, {{langx|ru|Институт земного магнетизма, ионосферы и распространения радиоволн им. Н. В. Пушкова Российской Академии наук, ИЗМИРАН}}) is a scientific institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences. this institute was founded in 1939 by Nikolay Pushkov.
Institute owns several space satellites programs:
- CORONAS - Complex ORbital Near Earth Solar Activities (experiment ended)
- COMPASS (Kompas) - Complex Orbital Magneto-Plasma Autonomous Small Satellite (see 2001 in spaceflight)
- Interheliozond
- Intercosmos-19 (Cosmos-1809) - research of the Earth ionospheric structure and of the electromagnetic processes in it (experiment ended)
- Prognoz - a series of magnetometer satellites
- APEX - Active Plasma Experiments
References
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External links
- [http://www.izmiran.ru/ Official IZMIRAN website], Russian/English mixed content
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070617065017/http://helios.izmiran.rssi.ru/ Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division of IZMIRAN]
- [http://compass.izmiran.ru/ Complex Orbital Magneto-Plasma Autonomous Small Satellite]
- [http://matlab.izmiran.ru/magdata/mskread.html IZMIRAN Geophysical Situation Forecasting Center]
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Category:1939 establishments in the Soviet Union
Category:Earth science research institutes
Category:Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Category:Research institutes in the Soviet Union
Category:Troitsky Administrative Okrug
Category:Research institutes established in 1939
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