Magnetic sensitivity of living system
The influence of magnetic storms
In the summer of 1915, while observing sunspot activity, Alexander Leonidovich Chizhevsky (1897–1964) discovered the following: certain periods of increased sunspot activity coincided with the outbreak and intensification of military operations on many fronts of World War I. This event marked the beginning of his long-term systematic research into solar-biospheric connections, which laid the foundations of the science of heliobiology. A year earlier, he had approached Konstantin Tsiolkovsky with the question: "Could solar activity cycles influence the world of plants and humans?" to which Tsiolkovsky replied: "It would be completely incomprehensible if such an influence did not exist. You would have to delve into the statistics of living things and compare the simultaneity of cycles on the Sun and in living things."
Every May 9th the Russian Federation celebrates its most important national holiday, Victory Day, den’ pobedy. During the early hours of that day in 1945 Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, commander of the 1st Belorussian Front, which had stormed Berlin, received the German unconditional surrender. The Great Patriotic War had gone on for 1418 days of unimaginable violence, brutality and destruction. From Stalingrad and the northern Caucasus and from the northwestern outskirts of Moscow to the western frontiers of the Soviet Union to Sevastopol in the south and Leningrad and the borders with Finland, in the north, the country had been laid waste. An estimated 17 million civilians, men, women and children, had perished, although no one will ever know the exact figure. Villages and towns were destroyed; families were wiped out without anyone to remember them or mourn their deaths.
May 7, we commemorate the surrender of Nazi Germany.
During the fighting in the Soviet Winter Campaign, in mid-February 1942 the German Army had recovered its poise, as the situation stabilised for the invaders. Across the Eastern front, the Germans were able to hold on to most of the territory they had captured by early December 1941.
Excerpt from the book by Nikolai Levashov "