Analysis Center Response Form
                Joint CSTG/IERS Call for Participation
           International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry

Analysis Center name: Main Astronomical Observatory (MAO), 
		      Space Geodynamics Dept.

Type of analysis center: global

Parent/Funding organization: National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine

Name and title of primary scientific/technical contact: 
Sergei Bolotin, astronomer, Space Geodynamics Dept., MAO

Name and title of administrative contact: 
Yaroslav Yatskiv, director, MAO
Sergei Bolotin, astronomer, Space Geodynamics Dept., MAO

Mailing address: Main Astronomical Observatory, Ukrainian National
Academy of Sciences, Golosiiv, Kyiv-022, Ukraine, 252650

Phone: 		380 (44) 266-21-47

Fax:   		380 (44) 266-21-47

E-mail address: bolotin@mao.kiev.ua, yatskiv@mao.kiev.ua, 

Web address: 	http://www.mao.kiev.ua

If applying as a Special Analysis Center, describe the special type(s) of
analysis you will perform. If applying as a Global Analysis Center, describe
the global analysis you will perform. Indicate your specific analysis
interests and describe how you select the data you analyze: as a Global 
Analysis Center we plan to perform a global annual analyses for determining
CRF, TRF, EOPs and other parameters. These results will be submitted to the
IVS and will be public available through http/ftp services. We improve our 
software "SteelBreeze" and we are planning to create and maintain the 
software documentation.

Describe the computer hardware configuration and the software
package(s) you use for analysis: now we are using PII 400MHz with 
192M RAM and 6.4G + 4.3G + 9G HDDs, operation system is Linux. 
The software for VLBI data processing is "SteelBreeze" developing
in MAO UNAS.

Internet connection type or bit rate: LL 28.8K + Radio Ethernet 1M.

Data storage capacity: 16G.

Planned facility upgrades: we don't plan to upgrade our computer hardware
in near future. However, it is possible to attach external 11 SCSI hard 
disk drives (up to 18G capacity each), DAT tape drive, DVD, etc. Now we 
are focusing on software upgrading and development. 

Number of full-time-equivalent personnel assigned to analysis center
functions: 2

Indicate which data center(s) you use: GSFC.

Indicate which of the following IVS Analysis Center functions you will perform
and explain briefly how you will perform them:
     Create high quality products and perform timely archiving and 
     distribution: YES
     Place final results (TRF, CRF, EOP, and others) in IVS Data Centers: YES
     Perform software development and documentation: YES

Attach a list of personnel (names and titles) whom you designate as IVS
Associate Members through their affiliation with your analysis center:
     Sergei Bolotin, science junior, Space Geodynamics Dept., MAO
     Yaroslav Yatskiv, professor, Space Geodynamics Dept., MAO
     Olexander Molotaj, astronomer, Kyiv University Observatory

Please provide any other information that you feel will be helpful in
demonstrating your analysis center's capabilities to participate in the IVS.
If you proposed to the IERS in 1995/6 as an analysis center and wish to have
that proposal carry over to the IVS, please make such a statement in this
proposal: our analysis center performs global solutions and submit them to 
IERS since 1995. We proposed to the IERS in 1995/6 as an analysis center and 
wish to have that proposal carry over to the IVS.

Your signature on this form indicates your agreement to participate in the IVS
as an Analysis Center and to work closely with the IVS Analysis Coordinator.
If this is a new proposal (i.e. not carried over from IERS) your signature
commits your organization to participate in the IVS:

Name of person signing:                                Title:

Sergei Bolotin      				       astronomer

Signature: [signature]                                 Date: 17 Sep 1998

Yaroslav Yatskiv      				       professor

Signature: [signature]                                 Date: 17 Sep 1998