Automation and Remote Control, Vol. 62, No. 7, 2001, pp. 1027–1029. Translated from Avtomatika i Telemekhanika, No. 7, 2001, pp. 3–5.Original Russian Text Copyright c© 2001 by Ishlinskii, Kuznetsov, Fedosov, Chertok.

ANNIVERSARIES

Dedicated to Academician

Aleksandr Arkad’evich Krasovskii

on His 80th Birthday

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Aleksandr Arkad’evich Krasovskii

On April 10, 2001, Academician Aleksandr Arkad’evich Krasovskii, an eminent Russian scientistin the theory of control processes and on-board systems, a hero of Socialist Labor, a laureate oftwo State Prizes, and an Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Avtomatika i Telemekhanika (Automation andRemote Control) was 80.

He was a senior student at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. In 1941, he completedthe 3rd year of study at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Gorkii State University inSverdlovsk. His first paper “Viscosity of Electron Gas” was published in “Zhurnal Experimentalnoii Teoreticheskoi Fiziki” (Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics) in 1940. Then it wasan unprecedent event. Therefore, he was awarded the Stalin Stipend, the only stipend at theuniversity.

In July 1941, Aleksandr Arkad’evich was called for service in the army. By a special demobiliza-tion order, senior students of scientific and technical faculties were returned to their lecture hallsfor condensed courses. In January 1942, he joined the Zhukovskii Military Aviation EngineeringAcademy, which was then relocated in Sverdlovsk.

He has been working at the Military Aviation Engineering Academy (presently, Military AviationEngineering University) since 1942.

The faculty of “Aviation Automation and Remote Control”1 was created by an order of AirMarshal K.A. Vershinin on March 4, 1952.

Aleksandr Arkad’evich Krasovskii and Germogen Sergeevich Pospelov, his friend and colleague,are the founders of the Faculty of “Automatic Control Systems” at the Zhukovskii Military AviationEngineering Academy.

They began their cooperation with the institutes of the USSR Academy of Sciences long beforethey were elected academicians. In particular, they regularly took part in scientific seminars atthe Institute of Automation and Remote Control (at present, the Trapeznikov Institute of ControlSciences). Besides writing lecture notes, textbooks, and scientific databases, they lectured for 1000–1500 hours per year in the period 1953–1955. A.A. Krasovskii guided 110 candidates of sciencesand more than 20 doctors of sciences.

In this period, besides participation in seminars and conferences at the institutes of the Academyof Sciences, he published numerous fundamental monographs and scientific papers on new trendsin control theory. His monograph “Dynamics of Continuous Self-Adjusting Systems,” which stimu-lated extensive investigations on self-adjustment and later adaptation, was published in this period.

After his Sectional report at the I IFAC Congress, his international activity has rapidly expanded.He read a Sectional Report at the II IFAC Congress (Switzerland) and in 1965 he read a report atI IFAC Workshop on Conquest of Space (Norway).

In 1968, A.A. Krasovskii was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.At the 250th Jubilee Session of the Academy of Sciences, in connection with his 60th birthday hewas conferred the title “Hero of Socialistic Labor” and awarded the medal of Order of Lenin anda “Sickle and Hammer” Gold Medal for his eminent works in science.

In 1992, he was elected an academician of the Division of Problems in Machine Building, Me-chanics, and Control Processes of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In the last decade, A.A. Krasovskii has been the chairman of organization committees of nu-merous conferences, seminars, and schools in Moscow, Moscow Suburb, and regions of Russia. He1 In the middle of the sixties, this faculty was radically reorganized—two faculties were combined into a new faculty

of “Automatic Control Systems for Manned Flying Vehicles.” In the middle of the seventies, as a result ofreorganization, the discipline “Flight Simulator” came under the jurisdiction of this Faculty. At present, this facultyis known as the faculty of “Flight-Navigation Complexes (and Flight Simulators),” or briefly Faculty No. 37.

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takes an active part in a large number of organization and program committees. He started newambitious projects, which are distinguished not only by simple novelty, but break down severaltraditional concepts in the fields of power engineering, radio detection, communication, and in-formation processing. Aleksandr Arkad’evich discovers newer and newer technical solutions forenhancing the defense power and production potential of his motherland, elaborates conceptualprinciples, and develops fundamental methodological techniques of original experiments.

Despite such a load, he finds time to meet sponsors with a clear understanding of what ishappening in his country. He has delineated a new route to organizing scientific research in linewith the existing situation, on the one hand, and reviving Russia as a scientific power, on the otherhand.

Aleksandr Arkad’evich Krasovskii is a rare and multifaceted talent of enormous scientific poten-tial.

We congratulate Aleksandr Arkad’evich on this 80th birthday.We wish his strong health, inexhaustible energy, and success in realizing his ideas, projects, and

plans.

A.Yu. Ishlinskii, N.A. Kuznetsov, E.A. Fedosov, and B.E. Chertok.

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