Nikolay Pushkov

Nikolay Vasilyevich Pushkov (Никола́й Васи́льевич Пушко́в; 17 May 1903 – 28 January 1981) was a Soviet geophysicist and founder of IZMIRAN.

He defended candidate's (Ph.D.) dissertation "Theory of Space Magnetism" in 1935 in Leningrad. 

Scientific works

 * 1) Theory of Space Magnetism (Thesis), 1934, 1935
 * 2) Upper layers of Earth Atmosphere and Earth Magnetism, published in Proc. of the Stratospheric Conference, 1935
 * 3) Newest Theories in Earth Magnetism, published in Meteorogical Bulletin, 1935
 * 4) Message on some works about Earth Magnetism and electricity in USSR for the 1931-1935 period, published in the Informational Digest over Earth Magnetism, 1936
 * 5) Statistical study of unexpected onset of magnetic storms, published in the Inf. Dig. over Earth Magn., 1936
 * 6) Comparison of magnetic activity with polar lights activity in Tihaya Bay, published in the Inf. Dig. over Earth Magn., 1937
 * 7) Radioforecasts User Manual (Руководство к пользованию радиопрогнозами), separate book, 1947
 * 8) Polar lights, published in the Issues of Academy of Sciences of USSR, 1958
 * 9) Observations of polar lights (instruction), published in the Issues of Academy of Sciences of USSR, 1957
 * 10) Studying Earth magnetic field on rockets and satellites, Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk, 1957
 * 11) Preliminary report on geomagnetic studying on a Soviet artificial satellite, published in the Artificial Earth Satellites Digest ed. 2, 1958
 * 12) Results of Earth magnetic field studying on a space rockets, published in the Reports of Academy of Sciences of USSR, 1959
 * 13) Magnetic field studying on a second space rocket, published in the Artificial Earth Satellites Digest, 1960
 * 14) Magnetic field of the outer corpuscular region, published in the Proc. of the International conference on cosmic rays, 1960
 * 15) Assembly on International Quiet Sun Year, published in the Bulletin of Academy of Sciences of USSR, 1963
 * 16) Studying of the magnetic field in space, published in Space Research, 1963
 * 17) When the Sun is Quiet?, published in Aviation and Cosmonautics, 1965
 * 18) Attention! Sun is Quiet, published in Hydrometeoizdat, 1966 and by Mir Publishing House, 1968
 * 19) Main results of upper layers studying in Antarctic, published in the Main results of 10-year study of Antarctic, 1967.
 * 20) Resume of International Quiet Sun Year (London Assembly), published in the Bulletin of Academy of Sciences of USSR, 1967
 * 21) Sun influence on the Earth scene, published in the Bulletin of Academy of Sciences of USSR, 1968
 * 22) Studying of the magnetic fields of Earth and planets, published in the Progress of the USSR in the space explorations, 1968
 * 23) Leningrad symposium on Sun-Earth physics, published in the Earth and Universe, 1971
 * 24) Sun-Earth connections, published in the Geophysics Digest, 1971


 * Source: Typewriter IZMIRAN library cards on Pushkov's works (in Russian)