Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk State Pedagogical Institute

USSR. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. December 19, 1976. Fourth-year students of the Physics and Mathematics Department S. Zhikharev, N. Dubenko, research fellow of the institute E. Utkin and student L. Derevtsova (from left to right) at the station for observing artificial Earth satellites at the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk State Pedagogical Institute, from where photographs and data obtained with the help of astronomical instruments are deciphered and sent to the Astronomical Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Oleg Galushko/TASS