Andrei Finkelshtein, right, a Soviet and Russian scientist, Doctor of Mathematics and Physics, director of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the USSR Academy of Sciences (currently of the Russian Academy of Sciences). In 1986 he was appointed head of the Quazar-KVO project comprising three separate observatories making up a global radio telescope of the area of 12 million square kilometers with observation points over 4,000 km apart. The first observatory is located in Svetloye, Karelian Isthmus; the second one in Zelenchukskaya, North Caucasus, with Badary observatory in the Republic of Buryatia closing up the giant triangle. The Quazar-KVO project became the foundation of the future Russian satellite navigation system GLONASS.
- Categories: Human Interest, Science & Technology
- Location: St.Petersburg, Russia
- Event date: 29.09.1989
- Date published: 19.05.2021
- Author: Юрий Простяков
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: 89-11717, 35 mm film
- Media: JPEG, 5338x3543px, 5Mb