Scientist Cosmonaut Ordinard Kolomiytsev

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Ordinard Panteleymonovich Kolomiytsev was born on January 29, 1933, in Tula. In 1956 he graduated from Saratov State University with a diploma in radiophysics. He joined the Institute of Earth Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation (IZMIRAN) of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Troitsk near Moscow. In the years from 1957 to 1963 he took part in the third, fifth, and eighth Antarctic expeditions, staying at the Vostok station near the South Geomagnetic Pole for a total of four years and four months. In September-October 1966 he passed medical tests for cosmonaut selection, and in May 1967 he became a member of the cosmonaut group of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In June 1967–1968 he completed general cosmonaut training at the Cosmonaut Training Center and returned to work at IZMIRAN. Kolomiytsev was awarded a candidate (1969) and a doctoral (1994) degree in the physical and mathematical sciences, and worked as chief researcher at the Laboratory of the Diffraction of Radio Waves in the Ionosphere in IZMIRAN. Kolomiytsev published more than 160 academic works and a book of memoirs, Antarktika—kosmonavtika: Ekstremalnaya tonalnost zhizni (From Antarctica to Cosmonautics: A Life in the Extreme Key) (2011) .1 He was the recipient of several awards for polar exploration. Kolomiytsev passed away on July 16, 2012.KeywordsRadio Wave PropagationAntarctic ExpeditionChief SurgeonSoviet AcademyChief ResearcherThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.