title: IZMIRAN
text: # 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.
  
  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
  