Leading academics, founders of scientific schools and directions, who made a significant contribution to the development of science in Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University
Askhabov Askhab Magomedovich
Doctor of geological and mineralogical Sciences, Professor, full member of RAS
Honored worker of the Komi Republic (1998), laureate of Komi Komsomol prize (1977), USSR Academy of Sciences and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1988) prizes; since 1981 – the head of the laboratory of experimental Mineralogy; in 2006 – 2016, the Chairman of the Presidium of Komi scientific center, Ural branch of RAS, since 2016 – academic supervisor of the Komi scientific center, Ural branch of the RAS;
Since 1992, he has been teaching at SyktSU as a professor of physical chemistry and geology. Since 2012 he is the head of the chair of Geology teaching the course “Nanotechnology and new matearials”; Askhabov has been awarded the medal «For serving the Fatherland”, 2nd degree (2003), the Order of Friendship (2009), commemorative medal “95 years of the Republic of Komi” (2016); his research interests include experimental Mineralogy, crystallography, crystal formation and growth
Pubications: Regeneration of crystals. Leningrdad, 1979; Crystallogenesis and the evolution of the “crystal-environment” system. St-Petersburg, 1993; Nanomineralogy: ultra-and microdispersed state of the mineral matter. St -Peterburg., 2005 (in co-authorship); Origin of the biosphere and coevolution of the mineral and biological world. Syktyvkar, 2007 (in co-authorship).
Burlikina Maya Ivanovna
Doctor of cultural studies, Professor
Awarded a Diploma of Honor by the Moscow Government, Honored worker of the Republic of Komi (1999), honored worker of culture of the Russian Federation (2010), laureate of the prize of the government of Komi (2002); expert of the High Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation in the field of Theology (since 2016), member of the editorial Board of the journal “Life of the Earth” (since 2016, journal is published by the Moscow State University). She has been awarded medals “Veteran of labor” (1987), The International Music Society Medal (2002), “For Merits in Carrying Out the 2010 Russian Population Census 2010” (2012); honorary sign “For merits in work for the Syktyvkar University” (2003); member of the Board of the Russian creative Union of cultural workers (2002). State prize of RK (2002);
Publications: Museums of higher educational institutions in pre-revolutionary Russia (1724-1917) (Syktyvkar, 2000); Scientist-encyclopedist A. S. Sidorov (Syktyvkar, 2007); V. N. Starovsky: the life devoted to statistics (Syktyvkar, 2010) (in co-authorship); Valentina Vityazeva: creating destiny. (Syktyvkar, 2011) ( in co-authorship); A lullaby for Prometheus or Chistalevs from Nuvchim (Syktyvkar, 2011); the Finno-Ugric scientist Vasily Lytkin (Illa VAS) (Syktyvkar, 2013).
Volkova Tatyana Fedorovna
Doctor of Philology, Professor
Scientific interests are related to studying the Pechora manuscript tradition Honorary worker of RK (2016)
Publications: “Dairy” of the Ust-Kulom peasant I. S. Rassykhaev. 1902-1953 years. M., 1997 (in co-authorship.); The ancient Russian literature in the circle of reading of Pechora peasants. Syktyvkar, 2005.
Gurlenova Ludmila
Doctor of Philology, Professor
Research interests: Russian literature of the XX−XX centuries, regional literature, natural philosophy of Art. She is the editor-in-chief of the journal ” Man. Culture. Education” (included into the List of HAC).
Author of the book “Feeling of Nature in the Russian literature of the 1920s-30s” – Syktyvkar: Syktyvkar University, 1998. Compiled published in the publishing house of Syktyvkar University. Edited collections: “The Theme of Nature in Fiction: Conference proceedings” (1995); “Sense of nature in Russian literature since 1917 to the 1930s” (1995); “Nature in Russian literature. Reader with comments.” (2000).
Dorovskikh Gennady Nikolaevich
Doctor of biological Sciences, Professor
Research interests are related to the study of the fauna of parasites in fish living in Northern water reservoirs as well as the history, ways and mechanisms of this fauna’s formation, zoogeography, relationships between parasites themselves as well as between the parasites and the hosts’ bodies and populations, parasitic communities, mechanisms of their formation. Responsible editor of the Bulletin of Syktyvkar University. Series 2: Biology, Geology, chemistry, ecology.
The winner of the award by the government of the Komi Republic (2008), honored worker of the Komi Republic (2016); He has been awarded the medal “For merits in work for the Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar state University ” (2017), honorary diplomas of the Council of Ministers of the Komi Republic (1993), of Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation (2001), of the head of the Komi Republic (2005).
Publications: Zoogeography of fish parasites of the main rivers of the North-Eastern Europe (2011); Methods of collecting and processing data on parasitic fish communities (2013); “Results of the study of geographic variability of the parasite fauna and the structure in the component parasitary communities of minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus (L.)).” In: Parasitology (in 5volumes) (2012-2016). Vol. 1. The basins of the Kama and S. Dvina rivers (2013).
Zhideleva Valentina Vasilievna
Doctor of Economics, Professor
Honored worker of the Republic of Komi (2002), honored worker of higher professional education of the Russian Federation (2004), honorary Professor of the International University of Vienna (2009); research interests are related to the development of a system-based methods of social, economic and environmental development of Northern regions in the transition economy; author of more then 200 scientific publications. She has been awarded medals “For serving Fatherland”, 2nd degree (2011), “For merits in Carrying out the 2002 Russian Population Census”, the Medal of Saint Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow, II degree awarded by the Russian Orthodox Church (2010), “200 years of transport Department of Russia” (2010), “For courage and humanism” (2014), academic gold lapel sign of the Saint-Petersburg State Forestry Academy (2012).
Publications: Business Environment. Syktyvkar, 2003; Enterprise Economics. Moscow, 2008 (in co-authorship); Clustering in modern Education: methods and practice. St-Petersburg., 2016 (in co-authorship).
Zhubr Alexey Viktorovich
Doctor of physics and mathematics, Professor
Teaches at SyktSU since 1976 (since 2004 as a secondary job). Since 2004 he occupies the position of senior researcher at the Department of mathematics (renamed into the Institute of Physics and Mathematics in 2017), Komi Science Center, Ural Division of RAS. His scientific interests include homotopy topology and topology of manifolds. He published extensively in leading Russian and foreign journals.
Publications: Integration of differential forms and its applications. Syktyvkar, 1979; Topology of simply connected six-dimensional manifolds. Syktyvkar, 2008.
Irzhak Lev Isaakovich
Doctor of biological Sciences, Professor
Engaged in research in the field of comparative physiology. He has discovered a number of new forms of reaction of hemoglobin and the blood system as a whole to natural and artificially created environmental factors of physical and chemical nature, theoretically substantiated and experimentally confirmed a number of new ideas about the role of protein structures and cell formations in the implementation of blood gas transport function.
He holds a full membership of the Russian Academy of Natural History (2009), status of a honored worker of science of the Komi ASSR (1981), honored worker of science of the Russian Federation (1995), honored Professor of the Syktyvkar University (2002), honorary worker of higher and professional education of the Russian Federation (2006); member of the editorial Board of the journal “Bulletin of the Northern Arctic Federal University. Ser. Medical and biological Sciences”, “Bulletin of Syktyvkar University. Ser. 2. Biology, Geology, chemistry, environmental science”. He has been actively supervising post-graduate students and more than 20 of his students have been awarded the Ph.D. equiv. degrees. He has been awarded medals “For valiant work. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Lenin” (1970), “Veteran of labor” (1987), a badge “For excellent success in work” (1991); laureate of the International Soros program of education in the field of exact Sciences (1994).
Scientific publications: Heart Rate Variability and Physical and Chemical Properties of Human Erythrocytes in Acute and Normobaric Hypoxia (2011); Cardiohemodynamics and age (2012); oxygen Saturation of human venous blood during aging (2013).
Knyazeva Galina. Aalekseevna
Doctor of Economics, Professor
Corresponding member of the Academy of natural Sciences (1995), member of the Board MOU “Komi voytyr”, member of the Board of the Free Economic Society of Russia, Chairman of the Komi regional branch of the Free Economic Society of Russia, member of the Board of the Komi regional center “the Achievement of the young”. Founder and Chairman of the regional social movement “Indigenous women of the Republic of Komi”. She has been awarded the medal “Badge of honor”, the title “Honored worker of the Republic of Komi”.
Publications: Environmental problems of Arctic regions in the context of sustainable development (Syktyvkar, 2015), the Economy and sustainable development of local communities of the North (Syktyvkar, Russia, 2014), the Change of capital adequacy ratio during the transition to Basel 3 from the standpoint of large and medium-sized banks (Syktyvkar, 2013), Green economy: new opportunities for indigenous people (Moscow, 2012), etc.
Kovalev Victor Antonovich
Doctor of political science, Professor of political science and international relations
He has been working at the University since 1988 after his graduation from graduate, post-graduate and doctoral programs of the St. Petersburg State University. He is not – and has never been – a member of any political party. He is however a member of professional associations: Russian society of political scientists and Russian Association of political science (research Committee on political regionalism). He has never received an awards from the Government of the Russian Federation.
His main scientific publications are related to the study of modern Russian politics and political ideas. He has published scientific monographs: “the Problem of the foundations of the state in the socio-political theory of Ivan Ilyin” (DEP. 1994), “Political transformation in the region. The Komi Republic in the context of Russian transformations” (2001), “Politics, power and business in the Komi Republic: modern problems” (2005), “Political alternatives in modern Russia” (2010), “Our fantastic policy: social and political utopias in modern fiction: Russia between the past and the future” (2014), “The Experience of Russian politic” (2015), a book of articles and essays “Free themes” (2015). He is also an author of dozens of reports and articles in leading Russian journals in social Sciences, an editor of several collections and special issues of journals.
Kotov, Leonid Nafanailavich
Doctor of physics and mathematics, Professor
Carries out research on electromagnetic interactions with nanostructured materials.
Kotov L. N. is a member of the dissertation Council of Chelyabinsk State University, a laureate of the state scholarship for outstanding scientists of Russia in physics (2001). He holds the badge “Honored worker of higher professional education of Russia”; “Honored worker of higher professional education of the Russian Federation (2007). He has been awarded Honorary Diplomas of the head of the Komi Republic (2007) and the Ministry Of education and higher school of the Komi Republic (2006).
He was graduateed from the Syktyvkar State University in 1980 and started teaching there in 1987. In 1993 he founded the chair (later – department) of Radiophysics and electronics in the university and he has been the head of this department either since that.
Scientific publications: Spin-phonon interactions in crystals (ferrites) (St. Petersburg, 1991); Microwave spectra and magnetic reorientation in ensembles of nanoparticles (Syktyvkar, 2008) (in co-authorship); Fundamentals of classical mechanics (Syktyvkar, 2012) (in co-authorship); Nonlinear precession of the magnetization vector under conditions of orientation transition (Syktyvkar, 2013) (in co-authorship).
Melikhov Mikhail Vasilyevich
Doctor of Philology, Professor
Scientific interests are in the sphere of the ancient Russian literature. He has published more then 80 works in this field. His scientific awards include Honorary Diplomas of the Ministry of education of Kazakhstan (1997), of the Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation (2002), of the head of Komi Republic (2011).
Publications: Ancient Russian military stories: the problems of plot construction and ideological and artistic transformation of genre in the literary and manuscript tradition of the 15 – 18th centuries. Syktyvkar, 2001; the old believer writer S. A. Nosov from Pechora: vision, letters, notes. M., 2005.
Moskalev Alexey Alexandrovich
Doctor of biological Sciences, Professor
Research interests: genetics of aging, genetics of life expectancy, radiation genetics, study of the mechanisms of aging and longevity rates regulation in model animals.
Scientific awards and titles: V. A. Shevchenko award and medal “For achievements in radiation genetics” by the N. V. Timofeeva-Resovsky scientific society “Biosphere and humanity” (2007), RAS prize and medal for young scientists (2010); Commonwealth of debuts award and medal of the International Association of Academies of Sciences “For the promotion of science” (2010); N. Timofeev-resovskii pizeof the Ural branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (2011); honorary title of Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2015).
Scientific works: 120 years of life is just the beginning. How to overcome aging (Moscow, 2015); Statistical methods in ecology using statistica, excel and spss (Syktyvkar, 2014), Genetic mechanisms of exposure to ionizing radiation in small doses (SPb, 2009); Aging and genes (SPb, 2008), etc.
Sotnikova Olga Alexandrovna
Doctor of pedagogical Sciences, associate Professor
Between 1990 and 2005, she taught at Koryazhma branch of the Pomor University named after M. V. Lomonosov, where she headed the higher mathematics Department, then served as the Dean of the faculty of mathematics and later as the Deputy Director responsible for educational and scientific work. Since 2005 till 2009 she taught in the Komi Republican Academy of State Service and Management. Since 2009 till 2016 she she worked as the Vice rector on educational work and additional education and, later, the Director of the Institute of fundamental training in the Ukhta State Technical University. Since November, 2016 she serves as the acting rector of the Syktyvkar State University.
Her research interests are in the field of methodology and methods of teaching mathematics on the University level. She is an author of more than a hundred publications. She actes as the editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of Syktyvkar University. Series 1: Mathematics. Mechanics. Informatics, as a member of the editorial Board of the journal “Education in the Republic of Komi” (2016), member of the organizing Committee on preparation and celebration of 100 years of education of Komi republic (2017), etc.; she has been awarded honorary diplomas of the Department of education of administration of the Arkhangelsk region (1999), of the Ministry of education of Komi republic (2015), gratitude diploma of the Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation (2013).
Publications: The integrity of the University course of algebra as a methodological basis for its understanding. Arkhangelsk, 2004; Mathematics for humanitarians. In 2 volumes. Volume 2. Syktyvkar, 2013 (in co-authorship); The basic model of the methodical system of project-modular training in engineering education. Ukhta, 2016 (in co-authorship).
Tarbayeva Vera Mikhailovna
Doctor of biological Sciences, Professor
A corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, full member of the Russian Ecological Academy. Her research interests include the study of structural and functional mechanisms of adaptation and reproduction of plants in the North, state management of natural resources, monitoring of the environment, forest ecology, etc. She is a member of the Russian Botanical Society. Her academic awards include signs “For the development of research work of students”, “Ecologist of the year-2011”.
Publications: Comparative morphology and anatomy of seeds of gymnosperms. Syktyvkar, 1995; Environmental monitoring. Syktyvkar, 2002 (in co-authorship); Biological monitoring of spent gold deposits of Kozhimsky district (national Park “Yugyd VA”). Syktyvkar, 2003 (co-author).
Alexander Tikhomirov
Doctor of physics and mathematics, Professor
Between 1984 and 1989 he served as the head of the Department of higher mathematics of the SyktGU. Since 1991 he was the head of the Department of geometry, mathematical statistics and control theory, and since 1999 he was the head of the Department of mathematical statistics and information systems, SyktGU. Between 2006 and 2008 he was a Professor of the St. Petersburg State University before returning to Syktyvkar in 2008 as a senior researcher of the Department of mathematics (reorganized into the Institute of physics and mathematics in 2007), Komi science center, Ural branch of RAS and a Professor of SyktSU. He also taught abroad, at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He published extensively in leading Russian and foreign periodicals. In 2002, he was awarded the honorary diploma of the Head of the Komi Republic.
Publication: Mathematical statistics. Syktyvkar, 1998.
Shahverdiev Arif Pirveli-Ogly
Doctor of Economics , Professor
Research interests are related to the problem of development of the domestic securities market, improvement of corporate governance.
Shahverdiev A. P. is a member of the Board of Directors (independent Director) of the Stock share company “Northern investment company” (since 2005), member of the Russian community of corporate Directors. full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, editor-in-chief of the journal “corporate governance and innovative development of the economy of the North: Bulletin of the Research center of corporate law, management and venture investment of the Syktyvkar State University”. He has been awarded medals “For labor valor” (1981), “200 years of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia”.
Scientific publications: the Role of state regulation of the securities market in ensuring the economic security of its subjects (Moscow, 1999); the State as a subject of corporate relations (Moscow, 2002)