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Source: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University –
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The year 2025 is drawing to a close. Sadly, for some, it was their last. Today, we remember the Polytechnicians who are no longer with us.
In January 2025, the outstanding scientist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of the Higher School of Mechanics and Control Processes of the Physicomechanical Institute V. V. Rybin passed away.
Valery Vasilyevich was born in Belarus. He graduated from Leningrad State University in 1963 with a degree in Physics. He completed his postgraduate studies at the A.F. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute. Valery Vasilyevich began his scientific career at the Prometey Central Research Institute of Structural Materials, where he began working in the electron microscopy department. Within a short time, under Valery Vasilyevich's leadership, the department became a recognized center for electron microscopy in the USSR and abroad. V.V. Rybin applied his experience as a physicist to systematize empirical, often disparate, information. He elucidated many structural processes in solids, opening up fundamentally new avenues for the development of metal science.
While studying steels, Valery Vasilyevich discovered unusual structures, which he called "high-temperature martensite" and "carbide-free bainite." These structures form the basis of high-strength, low-carbon, weldable structural steels. V. V. Rybin developed a theory of secondary hardening of steels and studied the structures of radiation-resistant steels for nuclear and thermonuclear power plants.
From 1997 to 2009, V. V. Rybin was the first deputy general director for scientific work at the Central Research Institute of Spacecraft Design “Prometheus”.
V.V. Rybin has published approximately 500 scientific papers, including seven monographs, 58 copyright certificates, and patents. Valery Vasilyevich supervised seven PhD candidates and three doctors of science.
Since 2010, Valery Vasilyevich has worked part-time as a professor in the Department of Physics of Strength and Plasticity of Materials, now the section of the Higher School of Mechanics and Control Processes of the Physical-Mechanical Institute of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.
Also in January, S. V. Zakharenko, an employee of the Operations and Maintenance Department of the Operations and Maintenance Services Department, passed away. His responsibilities included ensuring cleanliness and order at the university.
In March, Polytechnic University bid farewell to several employees: E. V. Dementyeva, Chief Librarian of the Book Storage, Rare Books, and Local History Sector of the Information and Library Complex; A. V. Karpov, Plumber of the Utility Networks Operation Section of the Engineering Services Department; N. V. Dvoretskaya, Lead Engineer of the Higher Engineering Physics School of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications; and I. N. Zhilinkova, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Economic Theory of the Institute of Industrial Management, Economics, and Trade.
In April, E. G. Elicheva, a security guard at the Department of Property Relations' Property Complex and Parking Department, passed away.
In May, Professor F. S. Nasredinov, a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and professor in the Physics Department of the Institute of Physics and Mathematics, passed away at the age of 78. He had worked in the department for over 30 years. He was an Honorary Professor of the Polytechnic University and an Honorary Worker of Education of the Russian Federation.
Farit Sabirovich was born in Akmola, Kazakhstan. He graduated from the Physics Department of Leningrad State University. He worked at the Physicotechnical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Since 1992, he has worked in the Department of Experimental Physics at St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University.
Farit Sabirovich's early work focused on the study of the electric capacitance of space charges in semiconductors. His primary research focus was Mössbauer spectroscopy (impurities and radiation defects in semiconductors, crystal-to-glass transitions, and the structure of high-temperature superconductors). Farit Sabirovich participated in pioneering work identifying and studying two-electron centers with negative correlation energy and studying electron exchange between neutral and ionized impurity centers in semiconductors. His doctoral dissertation focused on the use of impurity Mössbauer probes to study the electronic and atomic structure of solids, specifically to determine the spatial distribution of electron defects in the lattices of high-temperature superconductors.
F. S. Nasredinov is the author of about 140 scientific papers, one invention and 30 articles in international publications.
On July 23, V. I. Lebedev, Deputy Director of the Institute of Nuclear Energy (branch) of SPbPU in Sosnovy Bor and former Director of the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant, passed away. He dedicated more than 54 years to nuclear energy.
Valery Ivanovich was born on November 3, 1947, in Teikovo, Ivanovo Region. In 1971, he graduated from the Ivanovo Power Engineering Institute with a degree in "Automation of Thermal Power Processes" and was assigned to the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant in Sosnovy Bor. Initially, he worked as an instrumentation and automation engineer, then became a senior engineer for the Skala information system, a senior repair foreman for the Skala information system, a head of the thermal automation and measurement shop, and the plant's chief engineer. In 1996, he became head of the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant.
In 1998, V. I. Lebedev received his PhD in engineering, and in 1999, his doctorate. Since 2000, he has worked as a professor in the Department of Nuclear and Thermal Power Plants at the Power Engineering Faculty of the Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University.
After 14 years as the director of the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant, Valery Lebedev transferred to the Institute of Nuclear Energy (branch) of SPbPU in Sosnovy Bor. He served as its director until 2018, then as deputy director.
V. I. Lebedev is the author of three scientific discoveries, 80 inventions, five monographs and over 150 scientific articles.
In September, a leading specialist of the SPbPU History Museum and an Honorary Worker of the Polytechnic University passed away. A. N. Kobyshev.
Alexander Kobyshev entered the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1966. He studied at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, specializing in "Machines and Technology of Metal Forming."
In 1972, after receiving a degree in mechanical engineering, he worked as a junior research fellow in the Department of Machines and Technologies for Metal Forming and as an assistant in the Department of Machine Parts. He worked on hydrostatic deformation of metals—stamping using liquids—and in 1975 won the Lenin Komsomol Prize in Science and Technology for Young Scientists.
In 1976, he defended his PhD dissertation and returned to the Department of Machines and Technologies for Metal Forming. In 1983, Alexander Nikolaevich was appointed Dean of International Students.
In 1989, the Progress Management and Marketing Center was established at the M. I. Kalinin Polytechnic Institute, and Alexander Nikolaevich became its director. In 2009, he returned to the Polytechnic University and became first the director of the Management and Marketing Center at St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, and then the head of the Corporate Public Relations Department, which he led until 2018.
In 2019 Alexander Nikolaevich He served as acting director of the Higher School of Creative Industry and Design at IMMiT. And for the last few years, he worked as a leading specialist at the SPbPU History Museum, writing a book about the Polytechnic.
In November 2025, V. V. Ris, director of the scientific and educational center "Computer Technologies in Aerodynamics and Thermal Engineering" of the Physics and Mechanical Institute, passed away. He dedicated 58 years to the Polytechnic University.
Vladimir Ris was born in Leningrad on September 17, 1944. In 1961, he entered the M. I. Kalinin Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (LPI), in the Department of Hydroaerodynamics of the Physics and Mechanics Faculty. In 1967, he received a degree in engineering physics, specializing in aerodynamics and thermodynamics. After graduating, he found work in the Power Engineering Department of LPI (now part of the Institute of Power Engineering of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University). He held positions as an engineer, junior research fellow, senior research fellow, associate professor, and professor in the Department of Theoretical Foundations of Heat Engineering. Since 2011, V. V. Ris has served as director of the scientific and educational center "Computer Technologies in Aerodynamics and Heat Engineering."
V. V. Rees dedicated 45 years to teaching. He lectured and conducted practical classes on thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer theory, and fluid dynamics. He developed a course on fluid dynamics for students majoring in energy sciences.
In 1982, Vladimir Voldemarovich, co-authored with A. I. Kirillov, P. M. Mikhailov, and G. G. Gavra, compiled and published a textbook on calculating heat exchangers for compressor units. In 2020, Vladimir Voldemarovich, co-authored with A. G. Abramov and N. G. Ivanov, associate professors of the Physicomechanical Institute, prepared a textbook entitled "Fluid Flow in Volume Force Fields."
Since the early 1970s, V. V. Ris has been researching convective heat transfer as applied to soil temperature stabilization systems in permafrost regions. Since 1974, in collaboration with staff from the Department of Hydrodynamics at the Faculty of Physics and Mechanics, he has been performing calculations and experimental studies of flow and heat transfer in rotating channels, aimed at improving the efficiency of rotor cooling systems for powerful turbogenerators.
After 1991, V. V. Rees was the manager and responsible executor of grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and contractual work carried out at the Department of Hydroaerodynamics.
V. V. Rees is the author of over 100 scientific papers. Under his supervision, 12 people became PhD candidates.
In December, at the age of 87, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honored Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Professor of the Higher School of Industrial Management of the Institute of Industrial Management, Economics and Trade, Professor of the Department of Management Viktor Andreevich Dubolazov passed away.
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