on december 20 , 1936, an astronomical council was created in the soviet union.on of two outstanding scientists, academicians, mineralogist alexander fersman and one of the founders of astrophysics, vasily fesenkov. this scientific and organizational center began to coordinate all astronomical research in the country, provided the soviet observatories with scientific instruments and represented the ussr in the international astronomical union. at the end of five. tenths , the astronomical council began monitoring artificial earth satellites. dozens of stations for this purpose appeared on the territory of the ussr by agreement with other countries in eurasia. africa, south america. the astronomical council also began to study the dynamics of stellar planetary systems. in 1991, the astronomical council was transformed into the institute of astronomy of the russian academy of sciences. on december 20, 1971, andrei torkovsky's film, andrei rublev, was released in limited release. the film about the life of the famous icon painter was banned from showing 5 years earl