The Soviet Union's participation in the solution of international legal problems as space flights became possible is reviewed with emphasis on the efforts of the most prominent Soviet international lawyer. Some of the professor's 230 writings are highlighted

Zhukov, G. P.

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CONTRIBUTION OF CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE USSR
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES YE. A. KOROVIN TO THE SCIENCE
OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE LAW
Do=tor of Juridical Sciences, Professor G. P. Zhukov
Translation of Vklad chlena-korrespondenta AN SSSR,^
Ye. A. Korovina v nauku mezhdunarodnogo kosmiches-
kogo prava," Unpublished manuscript, Moscow, 1980,
pp. 1-4.
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ANNIVERSARY OF CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE USSR
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, PROFESSOR YE. A. KOROVIN
Translation of "Yubiley chlena-korrespondenta AN
SSSR Professora Ye. A. Korovina," Vestnik Moskov-
skogo universiteta,No. 4, 1962, pp. 77-78.
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Unpublished manuscript, Moscow, 1980, pp. 1-4 and "Yubiley
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4,	 1962, pp.	 77-78.
16.	 Abstract This document contains two articles.
The first is a review of the Soviet Union's p'articipatio
in the solution of international • legal problems as space flights
became possible.
The second is a discussion of the most prominent
Soviet international lawyer, Doctor of • Juridicial Sciences,
Professor Yevgenity Alexsandrovich Korovin on his 70th
birthday.
	 The discussion • covers some of the Professor's
230 writings.
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CONTRIBUTION OF CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE USSR
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES YE. A. KOROVIN TO THE SCIENCE
OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE LAW1
Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Professor G. P. Zhukov
The foundation for the study of international legal problems 	 /1
associated with space development was laid in the Soviet Union by
corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Ye. A. Korovin
(1892-1965). Back in 1933, in Leningrad at the conference of
specialist lawyers on air law, Ye. A. Korovin gave a report treating
legal problems that arise due to man's development of the upper
atmospheric layers. His report, entitled "Conquest of the Atmosphere
and International Law" was published in 1934 in the French journal
Revue General de QrQitlnternational Publique.
A number of the conclusions in this report anticipated the legal
problems that later arose during the development of space. This work
of Korovin was evaluated 25 years later in 1958 by the A. Grotius
international fund as a great contribution to the creation of inter-
national space law, and was awarded the Hugo Grotius medal, the famous
Holland lawyer in the beginning of the 17th century, the founder of
the science of international law. In 1958, Ye. A. Korovin published
in the journal Mezhdunarodnaya zhizn' the article "International
Pattern of Outer Space," that was one of the first attempts in the
A list of the works of Ye. A. Korovin on international space
law is contained in the bibliography of Soviet literature on interna-
tional space law prepared by Ye. P. Kamenetskaya and included in the
book of V. S. Vereshchetin Mezhdunarodno a sotrudnichestvo v kosmos__e_
["International Cooperation in Space` -
 oscow, 1977.pp. 257-258.
Numbers in margin indicate pagination in original foreign text.
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Soviet Union at a generalization of the main problems of interna-
tional space law.
In the aforementioned, and a number of other publications, Ye. A.
Korovin focused primary attention on the problem of setting up
international cooperation in the area of space development, and
struggle to turn it into a sphere of peaceful activity.
For his contribution to the science of internation space law,	 ;2
Ye. A. Korovin was one of the first in the world to be awarded the
gold medal of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) and
was elected a member of the International Astronautical Academy.
For a number of years, all the way until his death in 1965 Ye. A.
Korovin represented the Soviet lawyers in the International Institute
of Space Law. In September 1962, Ye. A. Korovin headed the Soviet
delegation at the Fifth International Colloquium on Space Law that
was confined to the 13th Congress of the International Astronautical
Federation which took place in Bulgaria. He gave a report at the
colloquium on the topic: "next Tasks of International Space Law,"
which noted the enormous importance of the suggestions made by the
USSR government to the United Nations Conanittee on the Use of Outer
Space for Peaceful Purposes. He focused attention on the inseparable
link between demilitarization of space and the implementation of
disarmament on earth. Ye. A. Korovin in the name of the Soviet
lawyers appealed to the lawyers of all the other countries to be
actively included in the struggle for disarmament and to organizedly
counteract the attempts to "pollute" space both in the direct and
figurative sense ("cold war" with the help of space activity).
In December 1959, on the initiative of Ye. A. Korovin with the
support of Academician M. V. Keldysh within the framework of the
USSR Academy of Sciences a commission was set up on legal questions
of interplanetary space, and in 1961 in the Institute of Government
and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences--a problem group to study
legal questions of outer space consisting of three people (E. G.
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Vasilevskaya, G. P. Zhukov, leader of the group, and P. I. Lukin).
For the development of Soviet science of international space 	 /3
law, of great importance were the collections of Soviet lawyers on
international legal questions associated with space development that
were prepared by the Commission in 1962 (editeO by Ye. A. Kurovin)
and in 1963 (edited by G. P. Zhukov. Two collections prepared by
the Commission under the supervision of Ye. A. Korovin in 1961 and
1963 oriented the Soviet reader on the most important directions in
the bourgeois juridical literature on international legal questions
associated with the space activity of the states. Thus, by the time
the United Nations began to discuss specific drafts of international
agreements on space, the Soviet juridical science had already made
the first studies in this direction. And today, thanks to the
efforts of Soviet diplomacy the foundations have been laid for inter-
national law and order in space; it is impossible not to note the
service of Ye. A. Korovin in organizing scientific research in this
field.
USSR pilot and cosmonaut Yu. A. Gagarin wrote the following
inscription for the first collection "Space and International I.aw"
prepared	 oy the group of Soviet lawyers under the supervision of
Ye. A. Korovin: "To the theoreticians with a desire to work out the
most just legal statutes in space. Practical worker Yu. Gagarin.
12 July 1962."
Three months later, on 12 October 1962, the 70th birthday
of Ye. A. Korovin, the Soviet pilot-cosmonauts in their greeting
highly evaluated his contribution to juridical science and its
youngest field--international space law. The text of greeting of
the Soviet pilot-cosmonauts, in particular, stated: "The success
of our future flights depends a lot on what kind of order will be
established in space. This you have dedicated your efforts to, your
enviable energy. We know that you and your colleagues who are
engaged in problems of international space law, often have to
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rovercome difficulties that are no smaller than the G-forces of a
space flight."
In noting the contribution of Ye. A. Korovin to the working out
of legal problems of space development, it is impossible not to say
that his students, companions and followers have very successfully
continued the work that he began.
ANNIVERSARY OF CORRESPONDING 'MEMBER OF THE USSR
ACADEMY OF SCIENCZS, PROFESSOR YE. A. KOROVIN
In October 1962 the juridical community of our country marked the /77
70th birthday and the 45th anniversary of scientific and pedagogical
activity of the most prominent Soviet international lawyer, head of 	 /78
the department of international law of the juridical department of
Moscow University, Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Professor Yevgeniy
Aleksandrovich Korovin.
Ye. A. Korovin was born in 1892 in Moscow in the family of a
physician. In 1915 he graduated from the juridical de partment of
Moscow University and remained for training for professorship. Starting
in 1921 Ye. A. Korovin was an associate professor, and in 1923 became
a professor and head of the department in Moscow University, as well
as in a number of the most prominent higher educational institutions
in the country: Institute of Foreign Trade, Moscow Juridical Institute,
Academy of Social Sciences under the TsK VKP(b) [Central Committee of
the All-Union Communist Party(of Bolsheviks)], Higher Diplomatic
School of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Professor Ye. A. Korovin has written over 230 works, and a
number of them have been translated into 9 foreign languag,;s. Among
the works of Ye. A. Korovin are major monogra phs that are a contri-
bution to Soviet international legal science: International Law_
of the Transitional Time (1924), International Law (1926), History
of International Law (1944), a number of works covering international
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organizations, and others.
The scientific activity of Professor Ye. A. Korovin is charac-
terized by the working nut of new theoretical problems of interna-
tional law: a new type of relar.ionship between countries of the
socialist camp, problems of state sovereignity, legal system for
outer space, questions associated with international contracts, the
legal situation of individual parts of a territory, etc. V e. A.
Korovin is the chairman of the Commission on Space Law in the USSR
Academv of Sciences.
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Being a brilliant lecturer and pedagogue, Ye. A. Korovin
educated numerous teams of scientific workers that are today working
in the higher educational institutions of Moscow and other cities,
and a large number of diplomatic workers. Professor Ye. A. Korovin
repeatedly defended the interests of the Soviet state in the inter-
national arena, participating in governmental and scientific con-
ferences. 1n 1954 Ye. Korovin was an adviser to the USSR delegation
to the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations in London, in
1945-1946 he was the consulting ex pert at the London and Paris
sessions of the Council of Foreign Ministers, etc.
Professor Ye. A. Korovin combines his enormous scientific-peda-
gogical activity with great social activity, being, the president of
the society "USSR-France," a member of the board of the Soviet
Association for United Nations Cooperation, vice-president of the
Soviet Association of International Law, member of the Permanent
Chamber of the Court of Arbitration, etc.
For fruitful social and scientific activity professor Ye. A.
Korovin was awarded the Orders of Lenin, Red Banner of Labor and
Badge of Honor. In 1947 he was awarded the honorable title of
honored scientist of the RFSR and the Uzbek SSR (1951).
Everyone who has worked with professor Ye. A. Korovin and
studied under him knows him as a man of ideas, indefatiguable eriergv,
and great personal charm.
Professor Ye.A. Korovin is in the prime of his creative forces.
The collective of the juridical department wishes Ye. A. Korovin
many years of life and further fruitful scientific activity.
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