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he recommended bringing a petition
creation of a bioatmospheric nature
serve in this zone.
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,'See also the Daily SNA.P, October 18, 1990,
p. 1, col. 2
(SNAP 901023)
Author: Kolodnyy, Lev
Title:: BIOFIELD RESEARCHERS' EQUIPMENT,
SUPPORT FROM CONTRYS LEADERS NOTED
Primary Source: Mosko~s_kayapravda,
October 10, 1990, No. 232 (21450), p. 3,
cols. 1-5
Abstract: The article gives an account of
work which associates of the USSR Academy
of Sciences' Institute of Radio Engineering
and Electronics (IRE) in Moscow did on
research of human biological fields and
noncontact massage (the so-called "Y phe-
nomenon) from 1982 to 1985.* This project
is the topic of two recent articles by
academician Yuriy Gulyayev and Professor
Eduard Godik in Vestnik Akademii nauk SSSR
(Bulletin of the USSR Academy of Sciences).
..The fil.rst article-appeared in issue No. 1
of ihis'' 'journal' 'for" '19~b'.' 'The second
article is entitled "Dynamic Mapping of
Physical Fields and Radiations of Biologi-
cal Subjects." The principal 'biological
subject' of Gulyayev and Godik's experi-
ments was Dzhuna Davitashvili. Leading
Communist Party and government offici ' als
who supported this controversial direction
of research are identified, reportedly for
the first time, in an article by Yevgeniy
Velikhov, vice-president of the USSR
Academy of Sciences. This article appeared
in another magazine which was published
recently in Moscow.
It is recalled that Gulyayev and Godik
began their research with active support
from Doctor of Technical Sciences Nikolay
Konstantinovich Baybakov, who headed the
USSR State Planning Committee (Gosplan) at
that time; academicians Guriy Ivanovich
MarchUk and Anatoliy Petrovich Aleksandrov,
who were then chairman of the State Commit-
tee for Science and Technology and presi-
dent of the USSR Academy of Sciences,
respectively; and academician V. A. Kotel-
nikov, head of IRE. Velikhov relates that
Baybakov backed the project over the objec-
tions of the minister of health and the
president of the Academy of Medical Scien-
ces. It was Baybakov who proposed to Mar-
chuk that a state program be drafted for
the study of physical fields of persons
with extrasensory capabilities. Baybakov
also persuaded Communist Party general
secretary L. I. Brezhnev that the proposed
research was worthwhile, as a result of
which-the project was given the go-ahead
and Davitashvili received permission to
reside in Moscow. Two research groups were

formed -- one headed by Godik at IRE and
another under Rakhimov's direction in the
physics school of Moscow State University.
Demonstrations which the Moscow phys-
icists conducted with an infrared imager
and a computer reportedly convinced Bayba-
kov, Aleksandrov and Kotelnikov that Davi-
tashvili possessed infrared-detection
capabilities and could generate heat in
parts of a patient's body by means of
radiation from her hands. An order signed
by Aleksandrov and the USSR minister of
health was subsequently issued. This order
called for associates of the USSR Academy
of Sciences to continue research begun by
the MoscQw physic!5ts-and-for scient-ists of
the medical Academy to*b*egin studying the
"D" phenomenon and testing its possible
therapeutic effects. Gulyayev and Godik's
group received a unique set of equipment
with which measurements of physical fields
could be conducted through seven channels.
This equipment could also detect electric
and magnetic fields; infrared, radiother-
mal, optical and acoustic radiation; and
chemical fields involved in the vital
activity of a biological subject. The
group claimed to have demonstrated the
existence of a nonspecific sensory channel
other than vision and hearing, using this
equipment. Physiological information and
long-distance effects could be transmitted
via this channel.
The author relates that the group's
work was interrupted in April of 1985,
before more of Davitashvili's abilities
could be studied. The project's suspension
is linked to the death of Brezhnev and
subsequent changes in the leadership of the
Communist Party. How the country's present
leaders regard biofield research is not
known to representatives of the Academy of
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Sciences and Gosplan.
A photograph is given showing Godik
and Davitashvili before the beginning of an
experiment at IRE in 1982.
*See also the Nily SNAp, June 14, 1988, p.
3, col. I
(SNAP 901023)
of the Red Cross society, has died.
The death announcement is made with
deep regret by the institute's administra-
tion, Party committee and public organiza-
tions, and profound condolences are ex-
pressed to the family and friends of the
deceased i
(SNAP 901023)
Title: Ye. M. DOBROVITSYNA (obituary)
Primary Source-, Moskovskaya pravda,
October, 7, 1990, No. 230 (21448), p. 4,
cols. 7-8
Entire Text: Yevgeniya Mikhaylovna Dobro-
vitsyna, one of the oldest associates of
the Moscow Chemical Engineering Institute
imeni Mendeleyev, a member ofthe Communist
Party of the Soviet Union and an activist
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