1RUSSIAN SPACE WEATHER INITIATIVES

Russian Space Weather initiatives cover practically completely the wide sphere of solar terrestrial physics field: from the solar activity via interplanetary and magnetospheric perturbations to the ionosphere-atmosphere coupling. Many scientific groups study different aspects of Space Weather during more than two last decades. The wide network of ground based stations (practically 170 ° in longitudes and 60 ° in latitudes) has been created in Russia. This network permits to perform the measurements of Earth's magnetic field (magnetometers), radio waves (radio-telescopes) and fluxes of high energy particles (neutron monitors). Highly developed program of near Earth satellite experiments permits to obtain in-sit