Thursday January 8, /0- 11P0 e 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00 0005-5 KOU 19,19AP MW oviet News Abstracts Publication PublishrA by FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY ULASION Title: LAUNCH OF "KOSMOS-1810" Primary source: Izvestiya, December 28, 1986, No. 362 (21804), p. 6, cols. 1-2 Extract: An artificial Earth satellite, "Kosmos-1810", was launched from the Soviet Union on December 26, 1986. Scientific apparatus intended for the continuation of research of outer space is installed on board the satellite. The satellite was placed into an orbit with the paraTreters: initial period of revolution -- 89.1-minutes; apogee -- 302 kilometers-; perigee -- 189 kilometers; orbit inclinacion -- 65 degrees. The apparaLus installed on the satel- lite is funct--,oning normally. Title: A. A. LOGUNOV (award) Primary source: Izvestiya, December 30, 1986, No. 364 (21806), p. 2, col. 7 Entire text: By decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, the order of Lenin has beer. awarded to academician Anatoliy Alekseyevich Logunov for his services in the' advancement of Soviet science and training of scientific per- sonnel, and in connection with his 60th birthday. Title: RETIR 24M OF HEALTH MINISTER S. P. BIYEN-KO ANNOUNCED Primary source: Izvestiya, December 30, 1986, No. 364 (21806), p. 2, col. 7 (continued next column) Entire te@-..: In the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Sc,,-'.et -- The Presidium of the USSR Supreme SovLet has relieved comrade Sergey Petrovich Burenkov of his duties as USSR -minister of health in connection with his retirement on pension due to reasons of health. Title: TIONS LAUNCH OF "MOLNIYA-1" COMMUNICA- SATELLITE Primary source: Izvestiya, Deceiftber 30, 1986, No. 364 (21806), p. 6, col. 7 Extract: A "Molniya-l" communications satellite was launched from the Soviet Union on December 26, 1986. The "Molniya-l" satellite is intended for maintaining the operation of the system of long-distance telephone-and-telegraph radio communica- tions, and also the transmission of pro- grams of USSR Central Television to points of the "Orbits" network. The satellite was placed into a highly elliptical orbit with apogee of 39,075 kilometers in the Northern Hemisphere, and perigee of 484 kilometers in the Southern Hemisphere. The satellite's period of revo- lution is 11 hours 41minutes, and its or- bit inclination is 63 degrees. Title: L CoMPTRM EXTRAORDINARY Z= TIMUMH HAND5 Primary source: Trud, December 18, 1986, No. 290 (20037), p. 4, cols. 3-7 Abstract: The article is an interview with academician= M@sil'yevich Gulyayev of, (continued next page) Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0500490005-5 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0500490005-5 the USSR Academy of Sciences' Institu@.,_ of Radio Engineering and Electronics (IRE)_regarding findings of a special laboratory of the institute which ir-4 - gates physical fields of biological jects.* It is noted that at a recent meeting of the Academy of Sciences' dc- partments of nuclear physics and genei_ physics and astronomy, Gulyayev and Do- tor of Physical-Mathematical Scien,@,es 4 Godi!E head of the special l,1)nr:.- tory, reported on studies that con-i.nn:.l the existence a unique physical efi@tct produced by a person alleged to possc@ extraordinary powers. The two sciciit mts reportedly showed slides taken from ai@ in- frared-imager display that showed the hand of a person moving over, but not in contact with, the back of another person and heating the subject's skin by several degrees. Gulyayev said the hand of theyerson j@ in this study belonged toMzhuna whose extraordinary powers have been written about in the newspaper be- fore. He said that what the researchers found about her 'powers' as compared with those of ordinary persons was purely iquantitative.' Instruments recorded that when she willed it, her hand warmed; a glow around the hand, which usually was extremely faint, intensified, and low- frequency oscillations of electric poten- tial were record -ed. What was the most interesting, according to Gulyayev, was how these things affected the test sub- ject. The researchers measured the sensi- tivity of the subject's skin to them and found that-it reacted well to infrared heat. The sensitivity of the skin re- portedly was comparable to that of an in- frared imager. Gulyayev described the effect as a kind of non-contact infrared heat massage, and it was found that sec- tions of the skin with impaired tempera- ture regulation were warmed more strongly. He said that when researchers held a pane of glass that blocks infrared heat be- tween Davitashvili's hand and the sib- ject's back, the warming of the back did not occur. *See also the Daily SNAP, January 24, 1986, p. 1, col. 1; and July 24, 1986, p. 2, col. 2 Gulyayev mentioned that associates of the IRE laboratory had an article on the skin's sensitivity to heat flows published in a recent issue of the journal "Doklady Akademii nauk". In conclusion he thanked Dzhuna Davitashvili for her assistance to the laboratory's researchers, and also 'others like her,' with whose help he said it was determined that the non-contact heat massage can be learned. Results of the studies reportedly have been turned over to the USSR Ministry of Health, and the laboratory is continuing research in collaboration with -medical institutes. Title: PRIZE RECIPIENT FOR WORK ON MOLECU- LAR SPECTROSCOPY (caption) Primary source: Leninskoye znamya, Novem- ber 29, 1986, No. 272 (20292), p. 2, cols. 5-8 Entire text: A group of Soviet physicists has been awarded the USSR State Prize in science and technology for the work-cycle "Photo Burnifig-Out of Stable Spectral Gaps and Selective Spectroscopy of Complex-Mole- cules". The authors of this cycle were the first to develop methods for ascertain- ing the fine structure of certain spectra. Methods which they.developed and results of their research have created a new direc- tion in molecular spectroscopy and solid-state physics, and are now finding various practical applications'as well. (The photograph shows Doctor of Physical- Mathematical Sciences, Professor R. I. Personov, head of the department of molecu- lar spectroscopy of the USSR Academy of Sciences' Institute of Spectroscopy and one of the cycle's authors. Personov has published 110 scientific works.) Author: Samoylis, S. Title: HIGH-VOLTAGE POWER LINE DEVELOPER N. N. TIKHODEYEV SALUTED Primary source: Leningradskaya pravda, December 20, 1986, No. 291 (21833), p. 1, cols. 6-8 Extract: The t est area of the Scientific Research Institute for Transmission of (contiAWr9ypLd Fc@fiJR9lease 2001/03/Q7: CIA-P4DMfW?92R00ftW0490005-5