Membership



Years   Events
1939   Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
1940   Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)
1943   Full member (also Founding member) of the Armenian SSR Academy of Sciences
1944-1979   Member of the Editorial Board of the "Astronomicheski Zhournal" of the USSR Acad. Sci. ("Soviet Astronomy", later "Astronomy Reports")
1946   Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
1947   Honorary member of the American Astronomical Society (AAS)
1947-1972   Member of the Committee on Lenin and USSR State prizes in the field of science and engineering at the USSR Council of Ministers
1948- Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Armenian SSR
1953   Full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
1953   Honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society (Great Britain)
1953   Corresponding member of the Royal Society (Academy of sciences) of Belgium (Liege)
1953   Member of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP)
1955-1988   Member of the Presidium of the USSR Acad. Sci.
1955   Member of the Council on the coordination of works of Academies of Sciences of the Union Republics
1956   Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Austria
1956   Member of the Committee on Lenin prizes
1957   Corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin
1957   Foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston)
1958-1974   Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of France
1959   Member of the USA National Academy of Sciences
1959   Foreign member of the German Academy of Naturalists ("Leopoldina") in Halle (GDR)
1959   Honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
1967   Member of the Italian National Academy of Sciences "Dei Lincei"
1969   Honorary member of the London Royal Society (Great Britain Academy of Sciences)
1969   Honorary member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (England)
1969   Honorary member of the Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of Poland
1970   Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
1971   Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Denmark
1971   Founding member and member of the Council of the USSR Philosophical Society
1972   Honorary member of the Azerbaijan SSR Acad. Sci.
1973   Honorary member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden
1973   Honorary member of the New-York Academy of Sciences
1974   Foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of Bulgaria
1974   Foreign member of the Cordoba (Argentina) Academy of Sciences
1976   Foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of India
1976-   Member of the Editorial Board of the "Reports of the USSR Academy of Sciences"
1978   Honorary member of the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences
1978   Foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of Czechoslovakia
1978   Corresponding member of the International Academy of Astronautics
1978   Foreign member (Associe etranger) of the Academy of Sciences of France
1979   Honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of Hungary
1981-1991   Member of the Editorial Board of the international journal “Vistas in Astronomy” (“Astronomy Prospects”, UK)
1981-199?   Member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Nauka v SSSR" ("Science in the USSR")
1983   Foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of Athens (Greece)
1984   Foreign member of the Syrian Scientific Society (Academy of sciences)
1985   Honorary member of the Society of History of Science of Syria
1992   Full member of the European Academy (London)
1992   Full member of the Academy of Creation (Russia)
1994   Honorary member of the Armenian Philosophical Academy
1996   Member of the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society (EAAS)