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ISTP SB RAS and Banzarov Buryat State University Enter into Cooperation Agreement

On May 5, 2025, representatives from Dorzhi Banzarov BSU and ISTP SB RAS met at the Geophysical Observatory of ISTP SB RAS (Optical Instruments Facility of the National Heliogeoph...
Stratosphere Dictates Weather: New Insights into Sudden Stratospheric Warmings

A team of researchers from Irkutsk and Tomsk summed up the results of three years of work under a grant from the Russian Science Foundation...
Open Doors Event at ISTP SB RAS

On April 27th, ISTP hosted its annual Open Doors event, organized by the Scientific Youth Council. During the day, researchers, engineers, and programmers tol...
Scientific Team from ISTP SB RAS Wins RSF Grant

A project led by scientists from the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics SB RAS focused on researching climate changes and effects of extreme geophysi...
ISTP SB RAS hosts the XIV School Conference "Man and Space"

At the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics SB RAS, the XIV scientific school conference "Man and Space" took place. Young researchers from...

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A film to commemorate the 60th anniversary of ISTP SB RAS, 2020 (in Russian)

Network of observatories

Sayan Solar Observatory

Location: Mongolian border, Republic of Buryatia, Chasovye Sopki mountain (altitude 2,000 meters), surrounded by the Eastern Sayan ridges, near settl. Mondy

Baikal Astrophysical Observatory

Location: settl. Listvyanka, southwestern shore of Lake Baikal, 70 km from Irkutsk

Radio Astronomical Observatory

Professor G.Ya. Smolkov Observatory, location: Tunka valley, 220 km from Irkutsk

Geophysical Observatory

Location: Tunka valley, settl. Tory, 150 km from Irkutsk

Integrated Magnetic Ionospheric Observatory

Formed after the merger of several magnetometric observatories and stations located in settlements Patrony and Mondy, on the Olkhon island and in the north of the Krasnoyarsk territory

Norilsk Integrated Magnetic Ionospheric Station

Location: north of Krasnoyarsk territory, Norilsk

Обсерватория радиофизической диагностики атмосферы

Location: Irkutsk region, 125 km from Irkutsk

SECIRA

Network of decameter coherent ionospheric radars. Location of currently operating stations: Sverdlovsk region (Arti Observatory of IGF UB RAS), and Magadan region (Magadan Observatory of IKIR FEB RAS)

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