[48] The paper was supported by the Program of Fundamental Studies of RAS "Environment and Climate Change" (part "Solar Activity and Physical Processes in the Sun-Earth System") and also by the Federal Research Program "Studies and Development in Priority Directions in Science and Technique" in the scope of the theme "Studies of the solar activity and its manifestations in the near-Earth Space and Terrestrial Atmosphere." In our work we used the materials from the paper by Panasyuk et al. [2004], and we thank the authors of that paper who have done a great work on collecting materials concerning the mentioned extreme events and the response to them of the magnetosphere and ionosphere. The authors thank V. K. Koshelevsky for providing with the materials of the Voeikovo observatory of the St. Petersburg Filial of IZMIRAN and A. Varkulevich for his help in preparation of the paper.
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