Work has begun in the village of Mondi, in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, on preparing the foundation for the construction of the largest solar telescope in Eurasia, as part of an important facility for the National Solar Physics Complex. Some construction work has already been completed ahead of schedule, as announced by the Russian Ministry of Science following an inspection visit by Science Minister Valery Falkov.
The National Solar Physics Complex is a large-scale scientific project aimed at obtaining scientifically significant results of global importance. The project will enable the observation of ongoing processes in near space and study the effects of solar winds on the Earth's magnetic and ionospheres, as well as examine the structure of the Earth’s atmosphere and the physical processes occurring within it.
The facilities of the complex are located in the Irkutsk Region and the Republic of Buryatia. The Solar and Terrestrial Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is responsible for this project, as it is the main scientific institution in this field. A source in the Ministry of Science stated that the National Solar Physics Complex project should be completed by 2030, and there is a possibility of achieving this ahead of schedule, given that preliminary work for the complex began in 2023. Construction workers have managed to ensure the geotechnical preparation of the site under difficult climatic conditions during the past period.
