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This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS translation reproduces a 12 April 1990 SELSKAYA ZHIZN interview with Yuriy Kiyenko, chairman of the Soviet State Commission for Cosmos and Resurs satellite launches. Kiyenko defends the economic value of remote-sensing satellites, citing findings on the Aral Sea, desertification in Kalmykia, and resource prospecting. He says the launches do no harm to the ozone layer and names the Northern Cosmodrome as the launch site. Asked about satellite fragments that people take for UFOs, he says Soviet equipment is designed so that any debris falls in unpopulated areas.
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## Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1990 Document 5 of 16 Page 1 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Status: [STAT] Document Date: 12 Apr 90 Category: [CAT] Report Type: JPRS Report Report Date: Report Number: JPRS-USP-90-004 UDC Number: Author(s): SELSKAYA ZHIZN correspondent V. Shcherban, under the rubric ''Today is the Space Program Day'': ''The Satellites Are Launched at Dawn...''; first two paragraphs are source introduction] Headline: State Commission Chairman Kiyenko on Economic Impact of Satellite Programs Source Line: 907Q0080 Moscow SELSKAYA ZHIZN in Russian 12 Apr 90 p 3 Subslug: [Interview with Yuriy Pavlovich Kiyenko, deputy chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers' Main Administration of Geodesy and Cartography and chairman of the State Commission for Launches and Use of Cosmos-series, Resurs-type Satellites, by SELSKAYA ZHIZN correspondent V. Shcherban, under the rubric ''Today is the Space Program Day'': ''The Satellites Are Launched at Dawn...''; first two paragraphs are source introduction] FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Interview with Yuriy Pavlovich Kiyenko, deputy chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers' Main Administration of Geodesy and Cartography and chairman of the State Commission for Launches and Use of Cosmos-series, Resurs-type Satellites, by SELSKAYA ZHIZN correspondent V. Shcherban, under the rubric ''Today is the Space Program Day'': ''The Satellites Are Launched at Dawn...''; first two paragraphs are source introduction] 2. [Text] For 16 years, there was an impenetrable shroud of secrecy surrounding him. All this time, his work was reported in the press dryly: '... the next satellite in the series was launched.' And if they ever showed him on television, it was only from the back, and that just a glimpse. The chairman of the State Commission for Spacecraft Launches has always been a big secret. On the eve of the Space Program Day, we met with him. Just before the interview, he again called someone at the ''top'' and asked, ''Then it's OK?...''--and, after hanging up the receiver, he said, ''Well then, let's begin...'' 3. Our interviewee is Yuriy Pavlovich Kiyenko, deputy chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers' Main Administration for Geodesy and Cartography and chairman of the State Commission for Launches and Use of Cosmos-series and Resurs-type Satellites. He is over 50 years of
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.