IZMIRAN

The Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN, Russian: Институт земного магнетизма, ионосферы и распространения радиоволн им. Н. В. Пушкова Российской Академии наук, ИЗМИРАН) is a scientific institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences. this institute was founded in 1939 by Nikolay Pushkov.

Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation

Abbreviation	IZMIRAN
Formation	October 11, 1939[1]
Type	Institute of RAS
Headquarters	Troitsk, Moscow, Russia
Official language	Russian
Directors	Artem Anatolievich Abunin (since 2024)
Main organ	RAS
Staff	600 including 300 employees[2]
Website	www.izmiran.ru

Institute owns several space satellites programs:

• CORONAS - Complex ORbital Near Earth Solar Activities (experiment ended)
• COMPASS (Kompas) - Complex Orbital Magneto-Plasma Autonomous Small Satellite (see 2001 in spaceflight)
• Interheliozond
• Intercosmos-19 (Cosmos-1809) - research of the Earth ionospheric structure and of the electromagnetic processes in it (experiment ended)
• Prognoz - a series of magnetometer satellites
• APEX - Active Plasma Experiments