760 (Continued) 
The station is equipped with apparatus for the observation of the 
chromo- and photosphere. Apart from a coronograph, the station is equipped 
with a photoheliograph, a chromosphere telescope, a large diffraction 
spectrograph, and a radio interferometer for a wavelength of 1.7 meters, 
and as of February, 1962, a radio-astronomical laboratory was being built. 
Radio transmissions from the upper and medium layers of the sun's atmosphere 
will be studied. Systematic observations of sun spots, sun eruptions, 
flocculi, the magnetic fields of sunspots, etc., are made. 
Graduate students from the universities in Moscow, Leningrad, 
Kiyev, and L'vov and personnel from observatories in Soviet-bloc countries 
are trained at this station. 
761 
Name: Mountain Astrophysical Observatory 
(Gornaya astrofizicheskaya observatoriya) 
Address: In the foothills of the Trans-Ali Ala-Tau, 12 km from Alma-Ata 
Director: M. G. Karimov (1960) 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Astrophysical Institute, Academy of Sciences, 
ar per a Kazakh S.S.R. (1960) 
Selected Staff Members: 
L. M. Gindilis 
Z. V. Karyagina 
N. N. Pariyskiy 
Description: 
The elevation of this observatory is 1,450 meters. Construction 
taking five or six years was begun on a second part of the Observatory in 
1959. It was to consist of a three-story pavilion with a 15-meter-diameter 
cupola, which would accommodate a large reflector incorporating a 1.5-meter- 
diameter mirror. The observatory was also to be provided with special equip- 
ment for taking photographs of artificial earth satellites and cosmic rockets, 
an interferometer, and a powerful radio telescope which would include a 
series of 12- and 16-meter-diameter cups. The radio telescope was put into 
operation in 1962, the first such instrument in Kazakhstan. Older equipment 
at the Observatory includes a 500-mm telescope, a Kometa-A camera, and a 
meniscus astrograph. 
