Chinin V. I.//Problems of atomic science and technology. <...> Features of the spark discharge formation at a limiting ballast resistor B. B. Baldanov Department of Physical Problems of the Buryat Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science 8 Sakhyanova str., Ulan-Ude, 670047, Russia E-mail: baibat@mail.ru The results of experimental studies of a spark discharge in the point-to-plane geometry are submitted. <...> Microstructure of the low-current spark discharge has been revealed. <...>