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Title:
LAUNCH OF "KOSMOS-1810"
Primary source: Izvestiya, December 28,
1986, No. 362 (21804), p. 6, cols. 1-2
Extract: An artificial Earth satellite,
"Kosmos-1810", was launched from the
Soviet Union on December 26, 1986.
Scientific apparatus intended for the
continuation of research of outer space
is installed on board the satellite.
The satellite was placed into an orbit
with the parameters: initial period of
revolution -- 89.1 minutes; apogee --
302 kilometers; perigee -- 189 kilometers;
orbit inclination -- 65 degrees.
The apparatus installed on the satel-
lite is functioning normally.
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Title:
A. A. LOGUNOV (award)
Primary source: Izvestiya, December 30,
1986, No. 364 (21806), p. 2, col. 7
Entire text: By decree of the Presidium
of the USSR Supreme Soviet, the order of
Lenin has been awarded to academician
Anatoliy Alekseyevich Logunov for his
services in the advancement of Soviet
science and training of scientific per-
sonnel, and in connection with his 60th
birthday.
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Title:
RETIR MENT OF HEALTH MINISTER
S. P. BURENKO
ANNOUNCED
Primary source: Izvestiya, December 30,
1986, No. 364 (21806), p. 2, col. 7
(continued next column)
Entire tex: : In the Presidium of the USSR
Supreme Soviet -- The Presidium of the USSR
Supreme Soviet has relieved comrade Sergey
Petrovich Burenkov of his duties as USSR
minister of health in connection with his
retirement on pension due to reasons of
health.
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Title:
LAUNCH OF "MOLNIYA-1" COMMUNICA-
TIONS SATELLITE
Primary source: Izvestiya, December 30,
1986, No. 364 (21806), p. 6, col. 7
Extract: A "Molniya-l" communications
satellite was launched from the Soviet
Union on December 26, 1986. The "Molniya-l"
satellite is intended for maintaining the
operation of the system of long-distance
telephone-and-telegraph radio communica-
tions, and also the transmission of pro-
grams of USSR Central Television to points
of the "Orbita" network.
The satellite was placed into a highly
elliptical orbit with apogee of 39,075
kilometers in the Northern Hemisphere, and
perigee of 484 kilometers in the Southern
Hemisphere. The satellite's period of revo-
lution is 11 hours 41 minutes, and its or-
bit inclination is 63 degrees.
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Title: LAB STUDIES CONFIRM EXTRAORDINARY
POWER OF HEAT TRANSFER THROUGH HANDS.
Primary source: Trud, December 18, 1986,
No. 290 (20037), p. 4, cols. 3-7
Abstract :
The article is an interview with
academician Yuriy Vasil'yevich Gulyayev of
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January 8, 1987

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the USSR Academy of Sciences' Institu:c
of Radio Engineering and Electronics
(IRE) regarding findings of a special
laboratory of the institute which ir "
gates physical fields of biological
jects .* It is noted that at a recent
meeting of the Academy of Sciences' de-
partments of nuclear physics and gener ...
physics and astronomy, Gulyayev and Do, -
tor of Physical-Mathematical Sciences
DE, E, Godik, head of the special 1: bora -
tory, reported on studies that con- irm: 1
the existence a unique physical effect
produced by a person alleged to posse +.
extraordinary powers. The two scient .: ts
reportedly showed slides taken from ar in-
frared-imager display that showed the
hand of a person moving over, but not in
contact with, the back of another person
and heating the subject's skin by several
degrees.
Gulyayev said the hand of the person
in this study belonged to Dzhuna Davita-
shvili, whose extraordinary powers have
been written about in the newspaper be-
fore. He said that what the researchers
found about her 'powers' as compared with
those of ordinary persons was purely
'quantitative.' Instruments recorded
that when she willed it, her hand warmed;
a glow around the hand, which usually was
extremely faint, intensified, and low-
frequency oscillations of electric poten-
tial were recorded. What was the most
interesting, according to Gulyayev, was
how these things affected the test sub-
ject. The researchers measured the sensi-
tivity of the subject's skin to them and
found that it reacted well to infrared
heat. The sensitivity of the skin re-
portedly was comparable to that of an in-
frared imager. Gulyayev described the
effect as a kind of non-contact infrared
heat massage, and it was found that sec-
tions of the skin with impaired tempera-
ture regulation were warmed more strongly.
He said that when researchers held a pane
of glass that blocks infrared heat be-
tween Davitashvili's hand and the sub-
ject's back, the warming of the back did
not occur.
*See also the Daily SNAP, January 24,
1986, p. 1, col. 1; and July 24, 1986,
p. 2, col. 2
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Gulyayev mentioned that associates of
the IRE laboratory had an article on the
skin's sensitivity to heat flows published
in a recent issue of the journal "Doklady
Akademii nauk". In conclusion he thanked
Dzhuna Davitashvili for her assistance to
the laboratory's researchers, and also
'others like her,' with whose help he said
it was determined that the non-contact
heat massage can be learned. Results of
the studies reportedly have been turned
over to the USSR Ministry of Health, and
the laboratory is continuing research in
collaboration with medical institutes.
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Title: PRIZE RECIPIENT FOR WORK ON MOLECU-
LAR SPECTROSCOPY (caption)
Primary source:
Leninskoye znamya, Novem-
ber 29, 1986, No. 272 (20292), p. 2, cols.
5-8
Entire text: A group of Soviet physicists
has been awarded the USSR State Prize in
science and technology for the work-cycle
"Photo Burning-Out of Stable Spectral Gaps
and Selective Spectroscopy of Complex Mole-
cules". The authors of this cycle were
the first to develop methods for ascertain-
ing the fine structure of certain spectra.
Methods which they developed and results
of their research have created a new direc-
tion in molecular spectroscopy and
solid-state physics, and are now finding
various practical applications as well.
(The photograph shows Doctor of Physical-
Mathematical Sciences, Professor R. I.
Personov, head of the department of molecu-
lar spectroscopy of the USSR Academy of
Sciences' Institute of Spectroscopy and
one of the cycle's authors. Personov has
published 110 scientific works.)
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Author:
Samoylis, S.
Title:
HIGH-VOLTAGE POWER LINE DEVELOPER
N. N. TIKHODEYEV SALUTED
Primary source: Leningradskaya pravda,
December 20, 1986, No. 291 (21833), p. 1,
cols. 6-8
Extract: The test area of the Scientific
Research Institute for Transmission of
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