Zyryanov, chief of division of electric and radio tests of navigating satellites, supervises the electric...
Boris Zyryanov, chief of division of electric and radio tests of navigating satellites, supervises the electric testing of the GLONASS-M space navigation satellite of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 8, 2013. The Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) is a Russian satellite navigation system similar to the GPS of the U.S., designed to serve for military and civil purposes. This GLONASS-M satellite will will lunch from the Baikonur cosmodrome on June, 2013. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY)