The February issue of the ISEC Newsletter [1] is devoted to his life and place in history and features reminisces and photographs from his colleagues in the West, including his attendance at the 2010 ISEC Space Elevator conference.
Artsutanov was a graduate of Leningrad Technological Institute.
In 1960, he wrote an article "V Kosmos na Electrovoze (en.
[2] Artsutanov's concept was based on the linking of geosynchronous satellites to the ground with a cable.
The ideas of Tsiolkovsky's compression-structure concept and Artsutanov's tension-structure concept differ in that a compression structure is well outside conceivable future capabilities, while the tension-structure is much easier to build and maintain, and is considered possible with near-future technologies.