Vladimir Surdin

About Vladimir Surdin

Vladimir Georgievich Surdin (born April 1, 1953, Miass) is a Soviet and Russian astronomer and popularizer of science. He runs the “Unearthly Podcast” channel on YouTube. Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor. Senior researcher at the State Astronomical Institute named after P. K. Sternberg, associate professor at the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University. Winner of the Belyaev Prize and the Enlightener Prize for 2012. Vladimir Surdin is the author and editor of several dozen popular science books on astronomy and astrophysics, as well as many popular science articles, essays and interviews. He was awarded the Belyaev Prize for a series of popular science articles. Gives popular lectures at the Polytechnic Museum. Member of the RAS Commission for Combating Pseudoscience, he is a member of the editorial board of its printed organ, the RAS bulletin “In Defense of Science.”