Balega Yuriy Yuriyevich General data:
Born: 08.01.1953
Place of birth: Kolchino village, Mukachevo district, Transcarpathian region, Ukrainian SSR
Studied in: Uzhgorod State University (since October 19, 2000 Uzhhorod National University) (1974);
Key interests: theoretical astronomy, astrophysics, theoretical astrophysics, instruments and devices, nebulae and galaxies, radiophysics, theoretical physics, stellar systems. PhD Thesis: Investigation of stars with high angular resolution using the method of digital speckle-interferometry (1985 ); ScD Thesis: Spectrum-interferometric studies on the Large Azimuthal Telescope (1996 );
Biography:
He wasborn January 8, 1953 in Kolchino village of Mukachevo district of the Transcarpathian region of the Ukrainian SSR.
He is a graduate of the Faculty of Physics, Uzhhorod National University, specializing in Astrophysics, in 1974.
Graduated from the Uzhhorod National University at the Department of Optics.
During 1974-1975 worked as an engineer-technologist of the Uzhhorod Appliance plant.
Since 1975 he is a member of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He began his career here as a senior laboratory assistant.
In 1985 he defended his Ph.D. thesis on the topic "Investigation of stars with high angular resolution using the method of digital speckle-interferometry".
In 1985-1991 he was elected People's Deputy of Karachay-Cherkessia.
Since 1991 he is the head of the Laboratory of High Resolution Astronomy (IAWR).
In 1991 among the co-authors he became the winner of the State Prize of the USSR in the field of science and technology for the creation of digital television facilities for the study of extremely weak astronomical objects at the Large Azimuthal Telescope of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
He was also awarded the Medal "For labor distinction" in 1981, Medal "For Labor Valor" in 1986, a medal to the Order of Merit to the Fatherland II degree in 1999, and he received the Order of Friendship in 1999 and the Order of Honor in 2010..
In 2003 he was awarded the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology and in 2011 the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology.
In 2014 he was awarded the A. A. Belopilsky Prize.
Since 1993 until 2015, he was the director of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Nizhniy Arhizh urban village in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic of the Russian Federation.
He is also a professor at the Department of Theoretical Physics at the North Caucasus Federal University in Stavropol.
He is a member of the Bureau of the Department of Physical Sciences of the Department of Physical Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, deputy substitute for science at the Federal State Budget Institute for Science of the Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In 1996 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Spectrum-interferometric studies on the Large Azimuthal Telescope".
In 1997 he became a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
In 2003 he was awarded the title of Honorary Professor of the Stavropol State University.
In 2003, he was among the winners of the State Prize of Ukraine for a series of works "Development of theoretical foundations and a unique observation base in Golosev and Terskol for observations of the Sun and bodies of the Solar System".
In 2008 he was elected the president of the Scientific Society of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic.
On October 28, 2016, he was elected academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Since the end of 2017, he is Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He is also a member of the international Eurasian astronomical conspiracy.
He is the editor-in-chief of the Astrophysical Bulletin.
Field of activity: astrophysics. radio astronomy, optics. He is the author of more than 300 published scientific works. His scientific interests in astrophysics and radio astronomy include the registration and processing of astronomical images of visible and infrared ranges; development of speckle-interferometry methods; the study of double and multiple stars using the methods of high spatial resolution; the origin and evolution of multiple stellar systems; physical properties of dwarf stars in the vicinity of the Sun: young stars in star formation complexes; the structure of gas-dust shells of stars that are in the last stages of evolution. He created astronomical quantum and digital television recording systems.
His hobby is football, painting.
Main publications:
1. Balega Yu.Yu., Dyachenko V.V., Maksimov A.F., Malogolovets E.V., Rastegaev D.A., Romanyuk I.I. Speckle interferometry of magnetic stars with the BTA. I. First results // Astrophys. Bull. (Bull. Spec. Astrophys. Obs.), 2012, Vol. 67, pp.44-56.
2. Balega Y.Y., Dyachenko V.V., Maksimov A.F., Malogolovets E.V., Rastegaev D.A., Romanyuk I.I. Speckle interferometry of magnetic Ap/Bp stars at the BTA 6-m telescope (new binary and multiple systems) // Astron. Nachr., 2011. Vol. 332, p.978-982.
3. Zhuchkov R.Ya., Malogolovets E.V., Kiyaeva O.V., Orlov V.V., Bikmaev I.F., Balega Yu.Yu., Safina D.I. Physical parameters and dynamical properties of the multiple star o And // Astron. Rep., 2010. Vol. 54, p.1134
4. Docobo J.A., Tamazian V.S., Balega Yu.Yu., Melikian N.D. EMCCD Speckle Interferometry with the 6 m Telescope: Astrometric Measurements, Differential Photometry, and Orbits // Astron. J., 2010. Vol. 140, p.1078.
Sources:
1 uk.wikipedia.org
2 ru.wikipedia.org
3 uzhnu.edu.ua
4 ras.ru
