BYURAKAN OBSERVATORY, MOUNT ARAGAT, ARMENIA
Founded in 1946 by Viktor Hambardzumyan, whose notes are depicted, this observatory was one of the main astronomy centers of the USSR. The observatory has discovered special star clusters - stellar associations, more than 1,000 flare stars, dozens of Supernovae, hundreds of Herbig-Haro objects and cometary nebulae, hundreds of galaxies.