INFORMATION ON SOVIET BLOC INTERNATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL COOPERATION - 1960

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LION ON SOVIET DLOC TNTIaWATIONAL q O IY ICA_COOPERATION - 1960
December 2, 1960
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TIONON INTERNATIONAL -00-P
SOVIET-BLOC ACTIVITIES
Table of Contonta
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I,
ROCKETS AND ARTIFICIAL EARTH SATELLITES
1
II.
UPPER ATMOSPHERE
4
III.
METEOROLOGY
6
IV.
GRAVIMETRY
9
V.
OCEANOGRAPHY
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VI.
SEISMOLOGY
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VII.
GLACIOLOGY
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VIII.
ARCTIC AND ANTARrTIC
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ROCKETS AND AR't'.IFIC;[AL EARTH SATELLITES
1irrsklii of Satelli.tets Directly 1 rated to Solar Activity
For seine time it hue been observed that :satolliteiu brake at an
uneven rate; instead of progrossively decreatsing their period of rovo-
lution there have been unexpla:inod increases in the period, It has
now been discovered that there is a direct correlation between. the
braking of thooo satellites and activity on the Sun.
Obsorvationu of the braking of satellites and their rocket-
carriers has made it possible to make still another interacting din-
covery: it appears that in addition to irregular sharp "Jumps" there
its a periodicity in the density of the atmosphere (a 28-day cycle).
This is directly related to the Sun's 28-day period of rotation which
is also responsible for the 28-day cycle in the Earth's magnetic field,
cosmic rays, condition of the ionosphere, auroras, etc. ("On the
'E3oundary' of the Air Ocean," by Engineer B. Stepanov, Nauka i Zhizn',
No. 7, 1960) pp. 68-69)
Pressure Exerted by Light Capable of Moving Space Vehicles
A single-page article in a recent issue of Znaniye-Sila discusses
a new type of space vehicle which; ot'Cotc great) 3osaibilition. The pres-
sure of light has long been known to move space particles for great dis-
tancea and to play an important role in many comic processes. The
problem of how to use this energy in cosmonauticr has been discussed by
both American and Russian specialists. At least theoretically it would
appear to offer the possibility of moving space vehicles. The author
likens such a vehicle to a sailing ship which moves under the influence
of an external force rather than by its own engine.
Such a vehicle could even move in the direction of the Sun, even
as sailing vessels can move forward against the wind. ("With Solar
Sails)" by A. Shibanov, Znaniye-Sila, No. 9, 1960, p. 22)
Soviet Scientist Expresses His Opinion of American Space Research
B. S. Danilin, writing In the Soviet popular science journal
Nauka i Zhizn' for July 1960, reviews the successes achieved by the
Soviet Union in rocketry and space research and then discusses various
aspects of the difficulties still to be overcome in the vsinning of space
by man.
The author includes a strongly-worded indictment of the United
States space research program. The following statements are representa-
tive of the general tenor of his remarks:
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tur;h NOW, Of r u kc,ts; hrtve yept. rc,(trhed the au.t'ftare of
1c;~,J LLu n
'evi;;ini; plan.; for thin const,ruetion of :nilitttry
fit th'.> opinto,i of American ';Jpar t;.flieatu' the' c:ravarwtiei
I t' Mrron will be c,xeellont cover for rocket launnhing
nf; rut .;uili~.~ tit any part of the Earth' a aurf'ace."
rwiro now Nnericrin caste? litoti taro upieraring. They
with 'tir.ttty inr;trwnontn rind crc aripab:lo of axuouting a wide
?ti uruutentt. , including oboe rvat ton:r duriiv, flights over the
the Soviet Unton at elovationrt of 1'70 to 180 km, relatively
l.ite.;. However, tht United States reporte nothing about
ovoreJ by thei;ee obuervat ions and doom not report the fre
htoh the radio Iran..3mittors operate nor any other informa-
?uld ertrtblc anyone to make obuervat.ton i of these satellite.
o by Soviet :i'i tentiut ;, they usually respond
t!y11 ;tor'. ut'cr r,ot intended for i;oophyriical research. If
whitL kind of ro7earch are theuo :ratell;tors conducting no
o.vlot. territory?"
world k;r in.ds in the mud the brightest drown of'
by roan to unknown wer ld:s. The Soctalict world,
-,.,, is- L,1.&ztnv for humanity a a to a bright
f.',roat Rottd Ahond," by D. S. Danilin, Nauka i Zhi7,n',
No. 'I, i:'(;"O, pp. e3-1u)
Mc tecx'olat* icti l t,n t tot; ; in Spn try
A recent is;:ue of N.ukn i. Zhiz.n' carries a four-page article on
the cub,lect of the, two of cps e vehicles for collect ton and reporting
of me>teorcL~~E.~irsr:; dcta. In reality, ho,aever, the first two pates are
only an intruelue', ion to they rna.tn theme.
The aeuLhol, utatec that it, is already fully feasible from u tech-
nical. ,i.owpoint. to uc;v i;;:toi'ilteto determine the character and inten-
:sity of Lh.: cloud s: c;~r.?r covering the Ecrth, the temperature of Its land
t7t:r fuec, the --irncur,t of . io ar energy reachtni our planet, and other mete-
orological ind ices. For t:1'fe tive~ coverage of the Earth, however, it
would he ne~wrt;:;t:r; to have a great many such meteorological satellites
cerviee.
in
The ,-.o atol l i t.es will be tale to study the wandering of the poles,
believed tc excre r: ;;ubutunt in? influence on the general circulation
of the stme;;;:hers,.
but :ti ;cervat icm of the Eart}: will be only halt' the Job -- observa-
tion:: of the 3?r: be an equally tr.portnnt mission for meteorological
;rttell itc:'. T`;:r, i:; the alt-tinportant determinant of terrestrial
vreathPr nn'7 .jue, to L . e of rte' atno phere the Sun can be studied
bietLer? t'rora Q-.(.! i-oundnriec; of the ratmcnphero rather than from the Earth's
,-ur f'a(o .
Even the v=i.,'. .mount of data which will be ;uppl ted by these 3at-
ell itr..; would t'r-? turu:inbl e _ i +' [t wore not for the invention of the elec-
tron in computer. UrLl y Of, u.cr' of the lat ter make:; It passible to make
CPYRGH'
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a epoody analyuiu arid collation of the collected data. One of these
opeuializud machinou iu the "Pogodi" computer of the Central Inutituto
of Weather Forueucitru, It porformu 200 oporutionu poi' uocond -- over a
million operationu in approximately two hours,
Noverthelonu, states the author, ouch rapid, procino and long-
range forocnatu an we visualizo to be ponoiblo cannot be achieved with-
out clout collaboration among the ucientiuto and motoorologistu of many
countries. ("Cosmic Meteorological Stationu," by N. Varvarov, Nauka
i Zhizn', No. 7, 2.960, pp. 17-20)
Hungarian Evaluates Second Soviet Space Ship
The high points of an article by Erno Nagy, Secretary of the
Hungarian Space Navigation Society, in which ho discusses the second C W-
Soviet apace chi follow.
CPYRGH "The almost completely circular or it of the 4j-ton second Soviet
apace ship in an exceptional achievement n guidance iochnology.. By on-
uuring an accuracy of thin degree it will be possible to solve all space
research problems within the next 5 yearn
"The booster rocket of Sputnik V was not just an ordinary rocket.
A satellite carrying only instruments can be permitted much greater ac-
celeration than one carrying animals. Th s is because despite all train-
ing, the basic physiological make-up of S relka and Belka had to be taken
into consideration in programming the fli t pattern of the booster
rocket and the return of the capsule.
"It can be assumed that other sate lites similar to Sputnik V
will be launched, because only these and allistic rocket launchings
will provide the data necessary for recov ring a man from space. Acade-
mician Blagonravovat the congress in Sto kholm repeatedly emphasized
to me that the first space traveller woul be subjected to no unneces-
sary risk. The Soviet space research to is not aiming for propaganda
and publicity, but for absolute dependabi ity.
"Sputnik V yielded valuable data o space biology through its
unusually clear and accurate television p ctures of biological processes
in space.
"There is no doubt after this that the Soviets will be the first
to recover a man from space, simply becau a they already have a suitable
booster rocket and will be the only natito have such a rocket till at
least 1962. The Venus rocket of Von Bra will not be ready to launch
and recover humans till 1963, and in the nterim the Soviet rocket engi
neers will make still further progress.III( "From Space to Earth," by
Erno Nagy, Secretary of the Hungarian Space Navigation Society; Budapest,
Technika, Vol. IV, No. 9, September 1960, p. 3)
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UPPER APA0,I)PHERE
~'(~C~l'Ct11Plet P:7r1 .; },~yr~!'_l~ftr) } El tit, Y it `!
The Nint:l, f;c n.rrri;ru e on Metooriteu wan hold in Kiyov from the
::euorid through the fourth of Juno. The mooting was eponuored by the
Committtr~+ on Mcteori.tous o the Academy of $rioneets of the USSR.
lly truth. nno the coni'oronne wrr-u opened by the Chairtr'. of th
exp, d i.t ion Into t)?.: nrna in 7.`;-161. 7r t year (1960) a small detachment
the of the, pxplo:r 1..^n. it was dec i.ded to send a new
Committee on hiu-tooritcrJ, v. , Foaenkov. In hits overview of thin nub.
jr2ct he dated part.Iau ar attention to the form of meteoric bodies
in ititorplrunet.0.1'y space. He dinaud::ed the character of their nurfacen
and whether there woo a difference in the nature of the urfacoa of
tho;re whl':h'irluo (w, a produr:t of the disintegration of asteroids or
the t1 Ic:1ntcvrar,'.on or come to. He reported that spectral analysis
fro tlt; to revo'll r a d i i': ercrteo.
A ipe+ 1 i1: ooi.r;.tlorl of the coni'orenye was devoted to a d:iscutision
of the P, lrNur:t:d';t3:s~etr +sttrrouno ing the fulling of the Tunguuuka meteor-
ito. Res-','rah on th[. matter has entered a now stage in recent years.
In 198 the 'crr-cr;ittet, rent an expedition into the area. In view of
t!t r~bu~.n_coi, races of it surfatde explosion, the conclusion has boon
drawn that the exp.lo-olon of the moY orite occurred 131 the air. Addi-
1,ionrll ir+'Jrrnr-' loll from foroign :sours:cr:r on anomalous optical phenomena
in they atmo:sj,;;ez'i, ob:ervod inunt?d:atnly after the falling of the Tun-
us:ska mnt,t~itcr, ha"
provided Lnportant new data on the limits of din-
g of tits' ye phenomena.
Theoretical research has confirmed the probability that the
meteorite exploded In the atmosphere, provided that it constituted the
nucleus of a nemn?? This explain;; the absence of a crater at the site.
Researchers have determined the most, probable initial and final veloci-
ties for the meteorite, its maws and onergy. Fesenkov pointed out that
all the prin^ipal data indicate that the Tungusska meteorite was the
nucleus of q small comet whisk' collided with the Earth.
The ;'onft?rence agreed on the necessity of proceeding with re-
search on th' cusl Jett and that research should be conducted to develop
a theory of the, motion of :orgy meteoric bodies in the Earth's atmos-
phere and the mechanism I:rrolvtd in their de&truction. Moreover, there
jhould }xe nd.3 t. t :,onr11 d iscusu icn of the hypcthes is of the cometary nature
of the Turin uj.;ka mutoc r it. t', .; Imt lat Lori of its phenomena of motion and
explo:,;ton t,-ol'e the Earth's t.ijrfN_Wn . and experimental roprcductinn of
.:.aV1-11j t.c: njFio nesc'^.~'' resit in cirvat dsniage to the dissemination of
that t.ht Tura catr-:;t roper' of 1;108 was eau aed by the atomic explo-
c,~-:cr~ c;s U., the prc`l'n of cilsuemittation in the press of
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At a number of iionni.onu the reaultu of the otudy of chemical and
phy
tho c_ZnrtY ref '~c1 rre;rvr: ref they t1S-SR (G onhyrttnnl . oriea). No. 10.1 (The moit recet-tly received irsrsue of r .vht,n Akndemi3 Ncttk,.
riyrt tS nfi7ieher;};nyts. No. 10, 1960, contat.~aa five articled of inter-
tat to :soi smologitstts, The first four are litttod 'uolow with tranulationti
of their Rustatan abutz'actu. The fifth is tranalatod in full in the arti-
cle following.
(1) "Problems in the Theory of the Long-Period Vertical Seismometer,"
by V. T. Arkhangel'skiy, pp. 1432-1441.
Thiu paper examines the theory of suspension of the pendulum for
a vertical uciamometor. It cites the principal terms in an equation
frir the motion of the pendulum which cause it to be unstable when there
is an increase in its period.
(2) "On the Dicperston of Long-Period Love Waves in the Continental
and Oceanic Crust Along the Path Indonesia-Crimea," by I. I. Popov,
pp. 1458-1462.
Thin artt^.le gives the results of experimental long-period sur-
face waves used for the study of the structure of the Earth's crust
using data recorded at several seismic stations,
(3) "The Structure of Microseisma and Methods of Determining Direc-
tions to the Sources of Their Formation," by F. I. Monakhov and N. A.
Dolbilkina, pp. 1463-1465.
Until recently information on the structure of microseisms was
limited to qualitative aspects -- such as being surface waves, pre-
dominantly of Via Rayleigh type. A quantitative analysis of the struc-
ture of mieroselsmo was first made by the authors of this article and
by Strobnnh, but the results differ.
Azimuthal and stereoscopic observations do not provide a correct
idea of the mechanism of forrvation of microtaeismic variations or about
the degree. of influence of interfere:acr on the character of the micro-
seisms. Therefore the authors conducted synchronous azimuthal and pro-
file observutlonrs near Moscow in the fall of 1958. Ten cases of re-
corded microsseh ms were selected and analyzed. This article represents
the results of this investigation.
(4) "The Use of a Sctsmograph with Two Galvanometers for Simultaneous
Recording of Earthquakes at Two Levels of Senottivity," by A. G.
Moskvina and N. V. Shebalin, pp. 1474-1476.
The contents of this 5-page article are clearly and accurately
conveyed by the title. The instrument discussed has been successfully
used at the "Simferopol"" seismic station. The article describes the
mechanical structure of the apparatus and evaluates, its performance.
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A routine (the seventeenth) neanion of the Council on Soismol
ogy or the Academy or Sciences of the USSR wan hold between 4 and 12
April 1960 at the Irintitute of Phynicd of the Kurth of the Aaadeny or
Sciences of the USSR. The following problome were diucuanod 1) the
nolamic regionalization of the territory of the USSR; 2) the detection
of underground oxplosions; 3) the development of the seismic service
were examined in detail at a session of the council in 19.55. At that
time a largo number or scientific reports were delivered and discussed.
(Sao loventlyll AU SM. er n enf:I 1chenkn No. 8, 1958 .(News
Events ; nyulloten' Soveta-Do Selamolo ii AN MSR, No. 8, 1960.)
The sossion of 1960 was devoted primarily to the organizational aide
of this problem, in connection with the need for compiling a now map
of, the seismic rogionalization of the territory of the USSR in 1963.
The following communications were delivered at the session by
reprCaentativos of various Academies of Science: Ukrainian SSR -- 0.
I. Yurkevioh; Georgian SSR -- A. D. Tokhakaya; Armenian SSR -- B. K.
Karapotyan, A. G. Nazarov and S. A. Piruzyan; Turkmen SSR -- 0. N.
Korootin; Tadzhik SSR -- V. N. Oayckiy; Uzbek SSR -- Ye. M. Butovakaya;
Kirgiz SSR -- Ye. A. Rozovaya; Kazakh SSR -- E. M. Antonenko. Reports
were also delivered by: V. P. Solonenko and A. A. Treskov of the East
Siberian Geological Institute of the Siberian Division of the Academy
or Sciences of the USSR; V. N. Aver'yanovaya of the Sakhalin Kray Soi-
entific Research.Inatituto of the Siberian Division of the Academy of
Sciences of the USSR; V. M. Kochetkov of the Yakutian Branch of the
Academy of Sciences of the USSR and I. I. Popov of the "Simferopol"
seismic station concerning the status and program of work for the
period 1960-1962 for refinement of the seismic regionalization of the
areas of their own republics and obinnta. There was also a report by
S. V. Medvedev, a representative of the Institute of Physics of the
Earth of the Academy of Sciences, on the compilation of a map of seis-
mic regionalization for the enti.'s territory of the USSR. The session
stipulated that seismic regionalization of the territory of the Russian
Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is to be accomplished in the pe-
riod 1960-1962 by the Institute of Physics of the Earth and the insti-
tutes of the Siberian Division of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
The territory of the remaining union ropublicu will be handled by the
corresponding Academies of Science of the various republics, in a
number of cases with the collaboration of the Institute of Physics of
the Earth of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The map of seismic
regionalization of the territory of the USSR will be drawn up by gen-
eralization of regional maps. The session discussed and adopted the
recommendations made by S. V. Medvedev on the procedures for conduct-
ing this work of seismic regionalization. These recommendations enu-
merate the principal research procedures for collection, analysis and
generalization of seismological and geological data necessary for the
completion of maps of seismic regionalization.
An is well known, problems relating to seismic regionalization
of the USSR.
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The reports or V, I. Dune and S, A. Zakharov (Academy of Sci-
encen of the Tadzhik 9SR) ?ftporimentation with S,iamia Regionalization
in the Lntsin of the Vakheh River" and V. I. Dune and V. M. Reyman
(Academe of Sciences of the Tadzhik SSR) 'On the Selamoteotonio Charoo-
toriatioa of the Stalinabad - Obignrtn - Sangtudo Region'reflect the
reeulta of important work on the aeinstio regionalization of the area in
which the Vakhdh Hydroelectric Station (the largest in Central Asia) in
situated (under construction). This has resulted in the compilation of
a map of ueiamic regionalization at a seals of 1s5OO,000. A series of
oyutematic investigations were made at the same time, in particular,
a quantitative evaluation of the correlation of seismic foci with local
tectonic ntruoturee (explouiona). A report was also delivered by V. A.
Aprodov (Moscow State University) "Recent Structural Geology of the
Central Parts of the Western Sayan, the Tuva Basin, and the Tennu-Ole.""
The problem of detection or underground explosions was discussed
in reports by V. 1. Keylie-9orok, I. P. Pasechnik, and Yu. V. Risnichenko,
participnntd in the work of the Geneva Three-Power Conference on the Don-
ning of TedtF of Atomic Weapons. The authors of the reports informed
their n4idianoo in detail of the progress, status, and possible future
happenings in the negotiations on the development and use of seismic
mathodi of control of underground testings of nuclear weapons.
The neuaion reviewed the progress in the implementation of the
rosolutionn adopted in 1959 on theprobleo of the development of the
ieismic service or the USSR. Communications on this subject were read
by Ye. F. Savarenskiy, D. P. Kirnos, Ye. A. Koridalin, S. L. Solov'yev,
A. A. Treskov, A. S. Yavorskly and others. Mention should be made of
the nonimplementation of the plan of development for seismic stations
In Siberia and in the Far East and the unfavorable status of the seismic
service in Azorbaydzhan. The council established a Commission on the
Seismic Service headed by I. I. Popov, confirmed the plan for opening
of new seismic stations in the USSR in the period 1960-1963 and a list
of the representative equipment for a station.
Reports were heard from V. N. Tabulevich and 0. D. Penasenko
concerning earthquakes which have occurred at Makhaeh-Kala and on the
Kola Peninsula.
A series or communications delivered at the session were devoted
to the problems or international cooperation among seismologists. G.
P. Gorshkov (Moscow University) related about his work over a period of
yearn as a UNESCO expert in Burma. He presented a draft of a seismic
regionalization of Burma which he has compiled. D. P. Kirnos reported
on the results of an excursion of Soviet specialists to Japan for the
purpose of familiarization with the operation of.the tsunami service.
Ye. F. Savarenskity reported on the results of a session of the European
Seismological Commission in 1959 at Alicante (Spain). F. I. Monakhov
communicated the results of his familiarization with the operation of
seismological and geophysical establishments in Yugoslavia.
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A resolution wen adopted to the of feet that the next field son
pion of the council in Yerevan in the fall of 1960 should be devoted
to problems or engineering seismology, (,'session of the Council on
Seismology," by S. L. Solov'yov, lzvectiya Akademii Nauk :iiR, Seriya
aeofizicheukaya, No. 10, 1960, pp. 1510-1511)
New Book
Flntogret t n dogrnfoyl (Interpretation of seismic
Bogdanov, A. I.
aoetoptekhizdat (State Scientific and Teohnical Publishing House of the
Petroleum and Mineral-Fuel Industry), Moscow, 1960, 289 pages.
The book contains generalized and systematized materials on the
theory of seismic hodographs and their interpretation for homogeneous,
bedded and continuous strata covering refloating and refracting bounda
rios.
The solution or the direct and inverse problem for any configura-
tion of a boundary of separation and for all types of hodographs is
given in come canon. In other canon, in particular for bedded media,
a solution in given for a plane boundary or only for linear longitudinal
hodographs.
The book is intended for enginoere, technical workers, and those
engaged in seismic prospecting. It can be useful to instructors of
higher and middle scientific institutions, which specialize in seismic
methods of prospecting. ("New Books", Moscow, Oeologiya--Nefti i Gaza,
No. 9, 1960, p. 64)
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VII. GLACIOLOGY
v co of the Azorbayd,han SSR.
N -A _4
t
on arencJ on the now Cover,
Avalanches and Olaoieru of the Caucasus was hold in Bakuin March le%60,
It was called :through the joint efforto of the Tbilisi Scientific Re-
joarch Hy drometeorologicul Institute, the Institute of Geography of the
Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaydhhan SSR and the Administration of
the ilydrycmatoorologicnl nor i
rliriflol.tiwii,Kj Gonr ranee Ileiti tit f,,,,kcl
The Firat Tranacaucaaian St antific C
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----~, +ggyu Glyy{j~~u~(f{/u irom Azer?ayazfan
and Georgia, but visitors from Moscow, Leningrad, Rootov-on-Don, Tash-
kent, Nal'chik, and otheru.
Warty papers were delive
d
e
o
re
. Th
c
nference was opened by Sh.
A. A7,izbekov, Academician of tho Azerbaydzhan Academy of Sciences,
The following subjects were covered: the need for close coopera-
tion between all workers engaged in glaciolo
i
al
g
c
study in the USSR;
the statute of such study in the Caucasus area; the geographicaldistri-
button and formation of those phenomena in the Caucasus; avalanches -
thcir diutributiori and ways of preventing them; the work of the El'bruz
Expedition; obucrvational methods for glaciers and snow cover; glacial
and snow data used for hydrological forecasts; the influence of snow
cover and glaciers on runoff and the use of melt water for agricultural
purposes; circulation of the atmosphere over the Caucasus; the ice re-
gime of the Caspian Sea; glaciological research in Antarctica during
the IGY.
The following measures were recommended: the generalization and
publication of glaciological data; an expansion of the scope of hydro
meteorological observations in experimental and typical river basins;
the establishment of new hydranoteorological stations near the foot of
glaciers in the Caucasus; the setting up of a glaciological station in
the vicinity of Mount Kazbek.
("Conference on the Study of the Snow Cover and Glaciers of the Caucasus,"
by)G. N. Khmaladze, Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, No. 10, 1960, pp.64-
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VIII. ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC
8_o-Trafor,TrnIIn nroutre from Mirn.yy to Voritok CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
CPYRGH'
chief " ("Into the Heart of the icy Continent,"
unsigned article, Pravda, 27 October 1960, p. 4)
Soviet Pilot Maketi 200th Landin. on the Drift Ice
The following news dispatch in signed by Blinov, chief of the
"The Main Admiiiiutration of the Northern Sea Route has received
a report that a sledge-tractor train departed from Mirnyy Antarctic
obtiorvatory for the interior nt ion of Vostok on 24 October.
"This trek in being made 10 polar n ecialinto headed by the
CPYRGH"
The Influence of the Albedo on the Radiation Regime in the Hinh Latituuen
Arctic." "Anniversary Drift," Pravda, 26 October 1960, p. 6)
11 vernyy Poiyun-8 station, 25 October. Yesterday the famed
Soviet p ar flier Ilya Paviovich Mazuruk landed his aircraft on the
ice floe f the Sovernyy Polyua..8 drift station. Thin was his 200th
landing the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean. Mazuruk made his first
landing the ice in May 1937. Twenty-four yearn have now passed in
which Ma uk has been constant f in in the hiph latitudes of the
A single-page article recently appearing in Meteorologiya_
role n discusses the influence of the albedo of the underlying surface
on the radiation regime in the Arctic and Antarctic. The author contends
that there is a failure to correctly understand the character of this
phenomenon. ("On the Problem of the Influence of the Albedo of the Under-
lying Surface on the Radiation Regime Under Arctic and Antarctic Condi-
tionu," by K. Ya. Kondrat'yev, Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, No. 10, 1960,
pp. 29-30)
BioErarlc Notes on the Soviet and Bloc Meteoroloriats Lost in the Mirr_
Fire
perished in the tragedy:
A fire destroyed the aerometeorological building at the Soviet
Antarctic station Mirnyy on 3 August 1960. The following eight personnel
Central Institute of Forecasts, was chief of the aerometeorologica'l de-
tachment at Mirnyy. He had been chief of the weather bureau of the Admin-
istration of the }rdrometeorological Service of the Ukrainian SSR and
first director of the Central Institute of Forecasts. He was a meteor-
ologist at the Karelian front during World War II. He also served a long
Oskar Crigor'yevich Krichak, 49, Senior Scientific Worker at the
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period an deputy chief editor of "Motoorologiya i Oidrologiy-a.If tie him-
raelr has written more than 30 scientific works, moot of which have boon
published; theec include a textbook entitled ""Synoptic Moteorology."
His only provioun.annignment after graduation had boon an a forecaster
at the Leningrad weather bureau.
Alekney Lont'yovioh Dargach, 37, a specialist at the Main Goo-
physical Observatory, wan a meteorologist at Mirnyy. He had served nix
yearn in the Rod Arnpr an a pilot and mechanic. He had earlier partici-
pated in an expedition to the Taymyr Peninsula.
Igor Androyovich Popov, 35, a worker at the Odessa Hydrometooro
logical Observatory, was an aerologist at Mirnyy. He had always par-
formed duties on the Second Soviet Antarctic Expedition,
Aerological Station. He nerved an an norologiat'at Mirnyy. Her per-
formed his duties with groat competence despite a lack of eyntematie
training.
Aleksandr Zakharovich Smirnov, 28, a worker at the Arctic and
Antarctic scientific Research Institute, served as an aorologist. He
had repeatedly participated in air expeditions aboard'recoaroh aircraft.
Doctor Oldrzhik Kostka, 36, was aCzech scientist working as an
aerologist at Mirnyy. In 1956 he had been named an Director of the
Czechoslovakian Aerological Service. He was also a member of the Czocho-
olovakian Committee of the International Geophysical Year.
Hans Christian Popp, 32, was a scientist from Germany (German
Democratic Republic), assigned as a meteorologist. In 1958-1959 he had
participated in the Atlantic expeditions on the Soviet research vessel
,Mikhail Lomonosov : "" ("In Memory of Lost Comrades," by V. M. Sklyarov,
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