the Institute of applied astronomy of RAS found that the Crimean Peninsula is shifted to the North-East at a speed of 2.9 millimeters per year, reports “Interfax”.
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to Lock the movement of the Peninsula managed by radiointerferometric complex “quasar-KVO”, which includes 3 radio astronomy Observatory in the Republic of Buryatia (“Badari”), Karachay-Cherkess Republic (the”Zelenchukskaya”) and Leningrad region (“Light”). With a high-speed fiber-optic lines when they are combined into a single radio telescope, mirror diameter of which is more than 4 thousand kilometers. Features of the complex allow with high accuracy to record tectonic
According to the Director of the Institute Alexander Ipatov, Crimea tectonically shifting towards Russia at a rate of 2.9 millimeters per year, which is established after examination of data equipment in the village of Simeiz in the Crimea, near which is the Simeiz Observatory.
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