Construction of an observation station in the village of Svetloye on the Karelian Isthmus, the location one of the three observatories in the Quasar-KVO system project intended for very-long-base radio interferometry, forming a global radio telescope on an area of 12 million sq. km with observation points separated by more than 4,000 km. Another is in Zelenchukskaya in the North Caucasus, and the Badary observatory (Republic of Buryatia) completes the giant triangle. Right: head of the Quasar-KVO project Andrei Finkelshtein.
- Categories: Science & Technology
- Location: St.Petersburg, Leningrad region, Russia
- Event date: 29.09.1989
- Date published: 19.05.2021
- Author: Юрий Простяков
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: 89-11722, 35 mm film
- Media: JPEG, 5352x3543px, 5.5Mb