P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Institute of Astrophysics

The Institute of Astrophysics was founded in 1932. It consists of the following 8

departments:

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  Physics of Comets and Asteroids

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  Meteor Astronomy

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  Astrometry

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  Variable Stars

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  Structure and Dynamics of Stellar Systems

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  Ionosphere

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  Laboratory of Experimental Astrophysics; and International- astronomical

observatory Sangloh (IAOS); a branch of the IAOS in the eastern Pamirs

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  The Hissar Astronomical Observatory (HisAO).

The major fields of investigation in the Astrophysics Institute include

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  Physics and dynamics of comets, asteroids and meteoroids;

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  Physics of the ionosphere of the Earth and seismoionospheric effects;

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  Astrometry;

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  Physics of variable stars;

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  Physics and dynamics of galaxies.

The major scientific results of the Institute include

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  The new comet (Bakharev - Makfarlan - Krinke) was found. New methods

for solving the problems of the mechanical theory of comet forms were

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