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 IRKUTSK RADIATION LAB -- A SCIENTIFIC STATION TO STUDY SOLAR RADIATION
 IS BEING SET UP BY THE USSR ACADEMY Or, SCIENCES IN THE, SPURS OF THE EASTERN
 SAYANY RANGE., MORE THAN 2)000 TWO THOUSAND MEITERS ABOVE SEA LEVEL. THE
 STATION WILL STUDY THE- EFFECTS OF SOLAR RADIATION ON THE IONOSPHERE AND ON
 TIM, PROPAGATION 07' RADIOWAVES ON THE EARTH. 'THEY WILL ALSO CONDUCT OBSERVATIONS
 OF COSMIC RAYS AND STUDY TERRESTRIAL ELECTRIC CURRENTS AND THE TERRESTRIAL
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 High altitude                                                             
 Observation                                                             
 Station                                                                 
 in the                                                                  
 South of                                                                
 Siberia                                                                 
 SG1A                                                                    
                                                                         

 According                                                               
 to a news                                                               
 item (Ref.                                                              
 6, 30 Sept                                                              
 1961, p.                                                                
 4) the                                                                  
 first high                                                              
                                                                         

 alt;Ltude                                                               
 station                                                                 
 of the                                                                  
 Sun Service                                                             
 in the                                                                  
 eastern                                                                 
 part of                                                                 
 the USSR                                                                
 is                                                                      
                                                                         

 being opened                                                             
 in Sayan                                                                
 Mts. at                                                                 
 an altitude                                                             
 of over                                                                 
 2,,000                                                                  
 m. above                                                                
 sea level.                                                              
                                                                         

                                                                         
 mountain-solar                                                             
 expedition                                                              
 of the                                                                  
 Institute                                                               
 of                                                                      
 The station                                                             
 belongs                                                                 
 to the                                                                  
                                                                         

 Terrestrial                                                             
 Magnetism,                                                              
 Ionosphere                                                              
 and Radiowave                                                             
 Propagation                                                             
 of the                                                                  
 Siberian                                                                
                                                                         

 Branch,                                                                 
 USSR Academy                                                             
 of Science.s.                                                             
                                                                         

 The Sayan                                                               
 high mountqins                                                             
 were chosen                                                             
 for scientific                                                             
 observations                                                             
 because                                                                 
                                                                         

 .                                                                       
 the Sun                                                                 
 is covered                                                              
 by clouds                                                               
 only 17                                                                 
 days a                                                                  
 year, on                                                                
 the average,                                                             
 in that                                                                 
 region.                                                                 
                                                                         

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 The transparent,                                                             
 noticeably                                                              
 rarified                                                                
 air permits                                                             
 to conductobservations                                                             
 of the                                                                  
                                                                         

 solar disk                                                              
 without                                                                 
 the usual                                                               
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