sentences:  There he supervised several research projects such as the Cosmos, Forecast, Intercosmos, Meteor, Astron programs.He managed or was a principal participant in many space projects including the Venera probes to Venus, the joint Soviet-U.S. Soyuz Apollo Test Project and headed the International Space Project Venus-Halley (Vega) and Phobos projects.He is the author of studies on plasma physics and magnetofluiddynamics.