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BYURAKAN OBSERVATORY STAFF TO MORE THAN DOUBLE AFTER PLANNED MODERNIZATION
/ARKA/
June 2, 2011
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, June 2. / ARKA /. The Byurakan Observatory in Armenia's
Aragatsotn region will hire additional personnel after a planned
upgrading, Victor Krivopuskov, head of Rossotrudnichestvo, a Russian
government agency in charge of relations with former Soviet republics,
said today at a roundtable on 'Information and Communications
Technology: Prospects for Development' in Yerevan.
The modernization will be carried out as part of a cooperation
agreement signed with Russia. According to preliminary data, the
estimated cost of investments for creation and instalment of new
instruments is more than 4.5 million euros. The agreement on joint
exploration of near space was signed in November 2010 between the
Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, the Russian Federal Space Agency
(Roskosmos) and the Institute of Applied Mathematics after Keldysh.
Mikhail Kardashenko, director general of Project-Tehknika research
center, said in Yerevan last month the new complex, which is part of
Roskosmos' near space exploration agency, will be installed in the
Byurakan Observatory before the winter.
Victor Krivopuskov said today the personnel of the observatory
will grow from current 40 to about 100 employees. He praised the
contribution of the Byurakan Observatory in the Soviet science, and
stressed that the introduction of new complex is a clear confirmation
of increased cooperation between Russia and Armenia.
Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory was founded in 1946 on Mount Aragats
at an altitude of 1400 meters. The Observatory has been studying
non-stationary phenomena in cosmic objects - stars and galaxies,
which show the explosive processes.
/ARKA/
June 2, 2011
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, June 2. / ARKA /. The Byurakan Observatory in Armenia's
Aragatsotn region will hire additional personnel after a planned
upgrading, Victor Krivopuskov, head of Rossotrudnichestvo, a Russian
government agency in charge of relations with former Soviet republics,
said today at a roundtable on 'Information and Communications
Technology: Prospects for Development' in Yerevan.
The modernization will be carried out as part of a cooperation
agreement signed with Russia. According to preliminary data, the
estimated cost of investments for creation and instalment of new
instruments is more than 4.5 million euros. The agreement on joint
exploration of near space was signed in November 2010 between the
Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, the Russian Federal Space Agency
(Roskosmos) and the Institute of Applied Mathematics after Keldysh.
Mikhail Kardashenko, director general of Project-Tehknika research
center, said in Yerevan last month the new complex, which is part of
Roskosmos' near space exploration agency, will be installed in the
Byurakan Observatory before the winter.
Victor Krivopuskov said today the personnel of the observatory
will grow from current 40 to about 100 employees. He praised the
contribution of the Byurakan Observatory in the Soviet science, and
stressed that the introduction of new complex is a clear confirmation
of increased cooperation between Russia and Armenia.
Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory was founded in 1946 on Mount Aragats
at an altitude of 1400 meters. The Observatory has been studying
non-stationary phenomena in cosmic objects - stars and galaxies,
which show the explosive processes.