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Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences

research institute in Moscow, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ4201418 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences was known as the Astronomical Council of the Academy of Sciences USSR until 1990.

Overview

The institute is involved in developing and launching space-based astronomy platforms, and scientific research that investigates the origins of stars, solar systems, and galactic formations. The institute also contains the Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LNS RAS), founded in 1947.

In addition, an extensive body of published scientific literature has been published over the years.

Library

The institute library holds foreign literature, besides Russian literature, of the 18th through the 21st centuries. The topics of interest are: astronomy, physics mathematics, mechanics, Earth sciences, cosmonautics, and electronics. The library consists of 60,000 items consisting of 10,000 books and 50,000 periodicals.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences” is research institute in Moscow, Russia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Institute, Astronomy and Russian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 1947—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Institute, Astronomy and Russian is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “research institute in Moscow, Russia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4201418. VIAF identifies the subject as 138530832. The Library of Congress control number is n94082802. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990 and 1947.

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This entry incorporates text from “Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.