Vladimir Alexandrovich Smirnov

Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Smirnow ( Russian Владимир Александрович Смирнов ; born April 5, 1936 in Odessa ) is a Ukrainian - Russian astronomer , historian and writer .

Life

Smirnov's father Alexander Timofejewitsch Smirnow headed the Chair of Political Economy at the University of Odessa (OGU). During the Romanian administration of Odessa from 1941 to 1944 in the German-Soviet War , Smirnov began attending school in 1943 in Odessa at the ten-year Stoljarsky Music School. During the reconquest of Odessa by the Red Army , the school building burned down, but school operations continued in another building. Smirnow had piano lessons with Rosalia Solomonovna Kogan-Schwarzman. He graduated from school in 1954 with a silver medal. Then he began studying in 1954 at the physics and mathematics faculty of the OGU. During his studies he published his first scientific essay on the importance of Leonhard Euler's work for music theory , for which he received an award. In 1959 he graduated with honors and married his fellow student Janina Porschesinska, with whom he had a daughter Tatjana in 1961 and a son Alexander in 1970.

After graduating from university, Smirnov became a research associate at the Poltava Gravimetric Observatory of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic . There he studied the polar motion of the earth and wrote an essay together with the astronomer NI Pachenko. To this end, he began a long-distance traineeship at the Chair of Astronomy at OGU.

In 1961 Smirnow returned to Odessa and was an aspirant at the OGU with Igor Stanislawowitsch Astapowitsch and, after his departure to Kiev, with Vladimir Platonowitsch Zessewitsch (until 1964). At the Observatory of OGU Smirnov worked in the theory and practice of spectroscopy of meteors one. Aspirants in Frunze and Ashgabat took part in the work there . Vsevolod Vladimirovich Fedynski organized Smirnov's joint work with aspirants at the Ashgabad Astrophysical Laboratory to measure the meteor spectra using the method developed by Smirnov. This later resulted in the candidate and doctoral dissertations of the aspirant S. Muchamednasarow from Ashgabad. In 1968, after defending his dissertation on the spectrometry of meteors, Smirnov received his doctorate as a candidate in the physical-mathematical sciences .

In 1969 Smirnow became a lecturer and in 1972 a lecturer at the Odessa AS Powpow Institute for Telecommunications Technology (OEIIS). He gave lectures on physics and astronomy and continued to study meteors. He also published works with a methodological and philosophical character. In 1974 he became a lecturer at the Department of Physics and Meteorology at the Odessa Agricultural Institute . In 1976 he returned to the OEIIS and stayed there until his retirement in 1999. He is a member of the European Geophysical Society and an associate member of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR).

After the publication of his monograph on the spectra of brief atmospheric light phenomena, i. H. of meteors, in 1999 Smirnov submitted his doctoral thesis on meteor spectra to the Scientific Council at the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , which, however, was not approved for defense, as the commission did not accept at least three from the Supreme Attestation Commission in the work contained scientific papers.

Since 1989 Smirnov has been a member of the work of the Odessa Memorial , of which he is currently chairman. He is also a member of society victims of political repression . Under the title Requiem of the 20th Century, he created a five-volume work on the Stalinist purges in Odessa with an epilogue to which he added a fragment of a poem by Anna Andreevna Akhmatova for three soloists, choir and piano, set by Vladimir Afanassjewitsch Schwez . The volumes also contain the diaries of the teacher of the Stoljarsky Music School Vladimir Afanassjewitsch Schwez from 1940–1990 with Smirnov's memories and comments. The fates of the musician Theophil Richter (Father Svyatoslaw Teofilowitsch Richters ), the composer S. Orlov, the physicist Boris Fyodorowitsch Zomakion, the rectors of the People's Education Institute , the directors of the Archaeological Museum, the singer Vera Georgiyevna Belouschenko (wife of the singer Pyotr Konstantin ) and many other artists , writers and teachers. Life during the Romanian rule in war was also depicted. He dedicated a special article to the astronomer Konstantin Dorimedontowitsch Pokrowski . Smirnow's article about Theophil Richter was translated into German by the musicologist Detlef Gojowy with the title Gone with the Wind (Zur Familiengeschichte Swatoslaw Richters) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Меценат и Мир: Владимир Александрович Смирнов (accessed February 7, 2019).
2. ↑ Смирнов В. А .: Спектры кратковременных атмосферных световых явлений: метеоры . Изд. фирма «Физ.-мат. лит. », Moscow 1994.
3. ↑ Смирнов В.А .: Реквием ХХ века: в 5-ти ч. Ч. 1 . Астропринт, Odessa 2009 ( [1] accessed February 8, 2019).
4. ↑ Смирнов В.А .: Реквием ХХ века: в 5-ти ч. Ч. 2 . Астропринт, Odessa 2013 ( [2] accessed February 8, 2019).
5. ↑ Смирнов В.А .: Реквием ХХ века: в 5-ти ч. Ч. 3 . 2nd Edition. Астропринт, Odessa 2016 ( [3] accessed February 8, 2019).
6. ↑ Смирнов В.А .: Реквием ХХ века: в 5-ти ч. Ч. 4 . 2nd Edition. Астропринт, Odessa 2017 ( [4] accessed February 8, 2019).
7. ↑ Смирнов В.А .: Реквием ХХ века: в 5-ти ч. Ч. 5 . Астропринт, Odessa 2011 ( [5] accessed February 8, 2019).
8. ↑ Смирнов В.А .: Реквием ХХ века: в 5-ти частях с эпилогом. Эпилог . Астропринт, Odessa 2018 ( [6] accessed February 8, 2019).
9. ↑ РЕКВИЕМ. Приложение к эпилогу: фрагменты поэмы А.Ахматовой для трех солистов, хора и фортепиано (accessed February 8, 2019).
10. ↑ Историко-астрономические исследования, вып. XXVI . Nauka , 2001, p. 177-190 .
11. ↑ Vladimir Smirnov: "Gone with the Wind ...". On Svjatoslav Richter's family history (accessed on February 8, 2019).