Rector of Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov Viktor Sadovnichy: biography, activities and interesting facts

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In the 1992-1993 academic year, Sadovnichiy Viktor Antonovich was appointed rector of the main university in Russia. Since then, he has led the Moscow State University, which has been named after the great Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov since its founding. In 1996, and then in 2001, having received the support of the numerous staff of his native university, he was again elected to the post of rector. Over the years, he not only managed to justify his credit of trust, but also made an unprecedented contribution to the development of the university.

Viktor Antonovich, of course, has a unique talent for scientific foresight and is able to accurately determine promising and relevant areas that correspond to fresh trends and meet the challenges of the time. So, on his personal initiative, 10 new faculties were created, including such speci alties as fundamental medicine, public administration, art history, bioengineering and bioinformatics, etc. Viktor Sadovnichy, the rector of Moscow State University, is also the creatorscientific park, which in the shortest possible time won fame not only in Russia, but throughout the world. In addition, for many years, Moscow University has been included in the ranking of the 100 best universities in the world.

Viktor Sadovnichy: biography

The future academician and rector was born in the spring of 1939 in Ukraine in the village of Krasnopavlovka, Kharkov region, a few months before the start of World War II. His parents - Anton Grigoryevich and Anna Matveevna - worked on a collective farm. Victor's childhood was difficult: war, hunger, cold, deprivation. In 1946, he went to first grade, at school he was a diligent student. However, in high school he transferred to an evening school, and during the day he worked at the Komsomolets mine in the city of Gorlovka, Donetsk region, as a loader. Despite being constantly busy, he studied well and graduated with honors.

Higher education

In 1958 he decided to go to Moscow and apply to Moscow State University. Having passed the exams as "excellent", the young man soon became a student of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. Being naturally endowed with organizational and leadership qualities, he joined the ranks of the student council, and then headed the committee. Viktor Sadovnichy was also the head of the Komsomol organization of the Faculty of Mathematics. In 1963, he graduated from the Mekhmat with honors, and he was sent to study at graduate school, which he graduated ahead of schedule, brilliantly defending his dissertation.

Career

After the defense, he was left at the pulpit asassistant. Then he became an assistant professor. Further, there was the position of deputy dean for science of the faculty of the Mekhmat and head. chair at the Faculty of Cybernetics. In the middle of 1974, having completed his work with a doctoral dissertation, he defended it and received the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, and a year later - the position of a university professor. From 1980 to 1982, he was the 1st Deputy Vice-Rector of Moscow State University, and in the next two years he was appointed Vice-Rector of the Educational and Scientific Department of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. For several years before his election as head of Moscow State University, he was the 1st Vice-Rector.

Teaching Activities and Achievements

For more than 30 years, Viktor Sadovnichy has been lecturing at his native Mekhmat in the discipline "Mathematical and Functional Analysis". Sadovnichiy is an outstanding specialist in mathematics, mechanics and computer science. Under his leadership, methods were developed for the mathematical processing of information coming from space. He is also the author of a new analytical direction, in particular, the process of controlling the movement of various aircraft, mostly spacecraft. More than 50 both domestic and foreign cosmonauts trained and completed the full pre-flight program on the simulator structures developed by him. In 2001, he was awarded the State Prize.

Scientific activity

Viktor Sadovnichy is the author of about 500 works of scientific value. Of these, 60 are monographs and university textbooks that have been translated into different languages of the world andare widely used in many universities. The most famous of his works are textbooks and collections of problems for students of mathematical faculties.

The beginning of the rector's work

B. A. Sadovnichiy was the first rector of Moscow State University, who was elected to the post during the democratic elections held for the first time in the history of the university. Its constituents were members of the Academic Council. After that, he was elected rector of the country's main university three more times. However, at the end of 2009, cardinal changes took place in the system of university elections. Rather, after that, the rector was appointed by order of the President of the country for a period of five years. He was last appointed in 2014.

MSU and Sadovnichy

For almost 25 years, Viktor Antonovich and Moscow State University have been one entity. Over the years, Moscow State University received the status of a Russian autonomous university, the Tatian Church existing on the territory of the university was reconstructed, after which its activities were resumed. Since 2009, Moscow State University has received the status of a special scientific and educational complex. It was Sadovnichiy who revived the age-old traditions of Moscow University and the entire Russian student body, giving everyone Tatyana's Day (Students' Day). During the years of his management, new faculties, departments, training centers, etc. were founded.

Awards and titles

B. A. Sadovnichiy is a member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation (for science and education), and is also a member of the Scientific Security Council of Russia. He received the title of honorary memberAcademy of Sciences of the Russian Federation and the Academy of Arts, as well as an honorary professor and doctor of many Russian and foreign universities, including Mongolian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Vietnamese, Nottingham, Soka and Sunya (Japan), Istanbul and others. Comrade Sadovnichiy during the years of Soviet power was twice awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and after the collapse of the USSR - the orders "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2nd, 3rd and 4th degrees, "Alexander Nevsky", several orders of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1997 and 2005 he was awarded the Legion of Honor (France).

Compromising evidence: Sadovnichy Viktor Antonovich

Surprisingly, in the press every now and then there are materials compromising the rector of Moscow State University. Quite often, his name is associated with the former mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov. According to some of them, by order of the mayor, the territories belonging to the state university were used for personal purposes. There are also materials that allegedly sold diplomas with the light hand of the rector, and not only bachelor's or master's degrees, but also candidates and doctors of sciences. There was even an absurd publication that the mathematician Sadovnichiy was not able to calculate the percentage from a given number. But that's what she is and the yellow press, capable of only slandering people. Believe these stories or not, everyone decides for themselves.