Prospects of Solar Microwave Observations at the Ventspils Radio-Astronomy Center

The paper concerns the prospects, technical issues and unique possibilities of solar microwave observations using the RT-32 radio telescope of the Ventspils International Radio-Astronomy Center. The solar physics tasks are discussed that are to be solved based on the observations of the large-scale coronal structures and radio flux fluctuations of as well as the magnetic structure of solar active regions.