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

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