Smirnov Sergei Ivanovich

Smirnov Sergei Ivanovich (b. 17 February 1941) — general director of JSC FSUE "Research Laboratory for Materials Testing". Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor.

Education

Mechanical Engineering Faculty of the Volga State Academy of Water Transport, 1967, specialty — "ship machinery and mechanisms".

Previous Places of Work

From 1967 to 1981 he worked at the Gorky Institute of Water Transport Engineers (GIIVT) — junior researcher (1967–1971), assistant (1971–1975), senior lecturer (1975–1982), deputy dean (1975–1980), head of the academic department (1980–1981). From 1981 — at JSC "Research Laboratory for Materials Testing" (NILIM), deputy director, acting director (1981–1991), general director (since 1992).

Main Facts of Activity

Organized joint laboratories with the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the A.A. Blagonravov Institute of Machine Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences, JSC "Verkhnevolzhsknefteprovod", and the American-Soviet firm "Globaltest" for developing methods to protect the natural environment by reducing accidents at potentially environmentally hazardous facilities (especially on large-diameter trunk oil pipelines). One of the creators of the first vessels in the USSR — a launch and a seiner-trawler — fitted with hydrostatic power transmission to the propeller (without a shaft line), and of the transmission mechanisms for testing them; complexes of instruments for diagnosing the stressed state of a ship's hull and systems for signaling dangerous stresses within it; homogenizers for liquid and viscous petroleum products, installed on vessels of the Volga United River Shipping Company and the Kama River Shipping Company; three generations of loading complexes for testing elements of large-diameter trunk oil pipelines for low-cycle fatigue strength; testing procedures, including acceptance procedures, for the composite-sleeve pipeline repair system using British Gas technology; a rig for simulating the loads that arise in a special item as it moves over rough terrain. Holds 20 inventions put into industrial use.

Publications

2 monographs, 120 scientific articles, 4 popular-science books, one of which, "The Needs of the Soul", was published with the blessing of Nikolai, Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas.

Membership in Scientific and Public Organizations

Academician of the International Academy of Authors of Scientific Discoveries and Inventions, member of the bureau of the Nizhny Novgorod regional branch of the academy. Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RAEN), full member of the European Academy of Natural Sciences. Was chairman of the council of young scientists of GIIVT, organizer of the council of young scientists of the Nizhegorodsky District of the city of Gorky. Co-founder of the Nizhny Novgorod Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineers. One of the editors of periodical collections of scientific papers: "Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering Technologies", "Testing of Materials and Structures" (Nizhny Novgorod branch of IMASH RAS, NILIM), member of the editorial board of the collection "Scientific Notes of the Volga-Vyatka Branch of the International Slavic Academy of Sciences, Education, Arts and Culture".

Awards

Prize named after A. L. Chizhevsky. Honorary badge of the Minister of the River Fleet of the RSFSR "Excellent Worker of Socialist Competition of the River Fleet", badge "Inventor of the USSR", RAEN Honorary Badge "For Services Rendered", bronze medal of VDNKh, medals "Veteran of Labor", "300 Years of the Russian Fleet", the A. S. Popov Medal, "60 Years of the Soviet People's Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", the European Order "For Services Rendered" (2003). Gratitude of the Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Region, Letter of Gratitude from the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Council of War Veterans.