Photographs

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After the war, the future chief designer of the over-the-horizon radar station system continued his studies at the Moscow Aviation Institute

Franz Kuzminsky remembered his front-line comrades for the rest of his life

During construction of the experimental over-the-horizon radar station (ZGRLS) near Nikolayev, one team worked with the chief designer. Bottom row, left to right: Yevgeny Khanykov, Franz Kuzminsky, Efir Shustov, Ivan Brylev; top row: Vladimir Rzhanitsin, Anatoly Kiryakin, Georgy Lidleyn, Georgy Pakhomov, Yuri Kalinin

Problems were solved in the open air under cigarette smoke

The photograph was taken during one of the official visits. A few moments later the chief designer and his colleagues will board their official transport and leave for the site

Another brainstorming session. In the foreground, V.A. Alebastrov, scientific and technical supervisor of the Nikolayev Branch of the Research Institute for Radio Engineering (NF NIDAR), 1980

Discussion of over-the-horizon radar station problems at a meeting of leading specialists of the Research Institute for Radio Engineering. V.A. Korado reports. Nikolayev, 1980

Participants of the scientific and technical conference of the Research Institute for Radio Engineering and its Nikolayev Branch on problems of over-the-horizon radar. Nikolayev, 1980

After successful work. Ye.A. Khanykov, I.S. Brylev, G.A. Lidleyn

Main building of the Nikolayev Branch of the Research Institute for Radio Engineering (NF NIDAR), 1980

Director of the Research Institute for Radio Engineering F.A. Kuzminsky, Director of the Experimental Plant of the Research Institute for Radio Engineering N.D. Malyshev, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Research Institute for Radio Engineering I.I. Lukashev, Secretary of the Trade Union Committee of the Research Institute for Radio Engineering S.Ya. Kobzar, 1977

Antenna array of the remote reception position located in the Stryi area (Lviv region)

Report at a meeting of the active members of the Research Institute for Radio Engineering, 1977

Reviewing the progress of over-the-horizon radar station development jointly with the customer

The grandeur of what was created is especially felt from the upper point of the antenna array

General Director of the Central Scientific-Production Association 'Vympel' (TsNPO 'Vympel') Yu.N. Aksenov presents the flag of socialist competition winner in the industry to F.A. Kuzminsky, Director of the Research Institute for Radio Engineering

One of the moments at the beginning of construction of the Nikolayev facility

USSR Minister of Radio Industry P.S. Pleshakov, Director of the Research Institute for Radio Engineering F.A. Kuzminsky, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Research Institute for Radio Engineering V.B. Makletov, 1979

Matters discussed at the leadership council of the Research Institute for Radio Engineering. Left to right: V.N. Kondratov, B.F. Markeshkin, F.F. Yevstratov, A.A. Trukhmanov, D.K. Bednenko, N.D. Shmachil, F.A. Kuzminsky, I.Ye. Betitnev

Fragment of the cyclopean antenna of the Chornobyl over-the-horizon radar station. All structural elements were calculated with the highest precision

Reception antenna of the Nikolayev over-the-horizon radar station

Both the over-the-horizon radar station facility itself and its creators, including the chief designer, were classified for many years. Intelligence services of many countries attempted to understand what was being constructed behind the barbed wire

Discussion of over-the-horizon radar station problems at a meeting of leading specialists of the Research Institute for Radio Engineering. Efir Shustov reports. Nikolayev, 1980

This combat radar near Chornobyl detected the launches of American Space Shuttle spacecraft. Only a small amount of additional effort remained to make it a reliable early warning system against missile attack. The radioactive cloud from the catastrophe at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant engulfed the already-completed over-the-horizon radar station

Franz Aleksandrovich Kuzminsky knew how to listen to his subordinates and colleagues, and tried to think through his decisions comprehensively

After the Research Institute for Radio Engineering was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor [and other government awards]. In the center, the First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party [of the Soviet Union], and to the left, Director of the Research Institute for Radio Engineering F.A. Kuzminsky, Secretary of the Party [Committee] of the Research Institute for Radio Engineering plant A.A. Trukhmanov... The Kremlin, 1979