Kokurin Yuriy Leonidovich General data:
02.02.1926 - 07.07.2013
Place of birth: Volodymyr City, the Ukrainian SSR (now the regional center of the Russian Federation).
Studied in: M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (1945-1948);
Key interests: geodynamics, decameter radio astronomy, physics, space missions, exploration of the Moon, geophysics. PhD Thesis: About the meal pro warehouse space (1952 ); ScD Thesis: Laser location of the moon (1976 );
Biography:
He was born February 2, 1926 in Vladimir, the Ukrainian SSR (now - the regional center of the Russian Federation).
Since 1945 studied at the Faculty of Physics of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University graduated from the department of the structure of matter in 1948 (later the department
expanded to the Department of Nuclear Physics), received the qualification of physics.
In 1951, he was enrolled in the work of the P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute Academy
Sciences of the USSR (FIAN) as a junior researcher. At the same time part-time
He worked as an assistant at the Department of Physics at the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute.
In 1952 he defended his Ph.D. thesis on the topic "On the composition of cosmic rays".
From the first half of 1950, the scientist studied the structure of the ionosphere of the Earth
radio astronomical methods in the Crimean expedition FIAN in the Katsiveli village on the Southern coast Crimea. Since 1954 he headed the group. Continued research on large-scale heterogeneities in the ionosphere until the end of the 1960's.
His name is associated with the development of a new direction and the first application of the results of the laser location of the Moon and artificial Earth satellites (SHS) for the solution of geodynamic problems. In the 1980's he was the initiator and direct participant in the creation of the first in the USSR network of five laser-location stations "Crimea", four of which (in Katsiveli, Riga, Kiev and Simeiz). Laser-localized observations of the SDA began in the FIS FIS in 1984.
For more than 50 years since 1958, he was the head of the Crimean Laser Observatory of FIAN and now the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (CLO MAO NANU): until 1999 - the Crimean Laser Observatory of the Physical Institute named after. PN Lebedev Russian Academy of Sciences (CLO FIAN), until 1992 - Crimean Scientific Station (CSS) FIAN.
In 1959 he became a senior research fellow.
In 1962, on the proposal of N. G. Basov led a group of researchers who used a ruby laser for svetolokatsii of the moon. In 1965, under his guidance, the distance to the surface of the moon was measured with the highest accuracy at that time - about 200 m.
In 1967, the scientist became head of the FIAN sector.
Further work on svetolokatsii Moon carried out within the program of preparation and delivery
on the Moon of Self-propelled Vehicles "Mysyaetsid-1" and "Moonlight-2": CSS FIAN, in cooperation with French specialists, participated in the creation and installation on both moonlight corners of light reflectors.
In 1976, the scientist defended his doctoral dissertation "The Laser Location of the Moon".
In addition to the laser location of the moon in the 1970's scientist participated in the development of domestic telescopes with adaptive optics.
In 1985 the scientist was awarded the medal "Veteran of Labor".
In 1986 became a chief scientist.
In 1990 he became the head of the laboratory of laser researches of space objects FIAN, professor.
In the fall of 2010, due to the deterioration of his health, he moved from the post of director
to the position of Chief Scientist of the Clone of the MAO NASU, which remained until the end of the year.
At the end of 2012, as an expert participated in the project "Moon-Globe" and "Gamma-400" participation in the "Katsiveli-1893" CLO MAO NANU participation.
He died on July 7, 2013 in Moscow at the age of 88.
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