CrimeaPRESS reports:
The monument is made of bronze and depicts an astronomer sitting at a telescope. On the stele depicting the stand for the telescope, there is an inscription: «To the people who reveal the stars to us.» The author of the monument is an artist, sculptor, member of the Russian and Moscow Union of Artists, Honored Artist of the Republic of Crimea Fyodor Parshin.
I am glad that the project — the astronomers’ square in the settlement of Nauchny has acquired such a look with the monument that was originally planned to be installed here. This is a tribute to those people who have always lived next to us, studying our Universe— quotes TASS Chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov.
The director of the observatory, Alla Rostopchina-Shakhovskaya, noted that Crimean astronomers observed the flights of the first satellites, discovered minor planets, studied quasars and solar activity, and deserved to perpetuate the memory of their contribution to science.
The Crimean Astrophysical Observatory was founded in 1945 as an institution of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the basis of the Simeiz branch of the Pulkovo Observatory. It has 17 optical telescopes, including the second largest optical telescope in Russia — the 2.6-meter Academician G. A. Shain Telescope, the first in Europe and so far the only working second-generation gamma-ray telescope.
The observatory also houses a tower solar telescope. The height of the tower in which it is located is 25 m. The diameter of the mirror is 90 cm, which makes it one of the largest solar telescopes in Europe, allowing simultaneous observation of about 700 km of the solar surface.
From 1963 to 2021, the observatory discovered 1,286 minor planets.
source: TASS
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