Aleksandr Kharkevich

Aleksandr Kharkevich
Born	Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kharkevich (1904-02-03)February 3, 1904 Saint Petersburg,Russian Empire
Died	March 30, 1965(1965-03-30)(aged 61) Moscow,RSFSR,Soviet Union
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University
Awards	Order of Lenin Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Scientific career
Fields	Radio engineering,electronics,acousticsandinstrumentation

1978 Soviet postal cover featuring portrait of Aleksandr Kharkevich

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kharkevich(‹See Tfd›Russian:Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Харке́вич;3 February, 1904 – 30 March, 1965)was a specialist in radio engineering, electronics, acoustics and instrumentation. He was acorresponding memberin 1960 and anacademicianin 1964 of theAcademy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.

Biography

He was born in 1904 in Saint Petersburg.From 1922 to 1930 he studied at theSaint Petersburg Electrotechnical University.He began his career in 1924 as a battery laboratory fitter, later as an intern, technician and supervisor at the plant. The first of his scientific and engineering wasinstrument engineering.He created a number of original designs of devices, many of which were kept in Soviet industry as universally recognized examples for many years. He also successfully developed a number of issues ofspectral theory,the theory of nonlinear oscillations, and parametric phenomena.

In 1938 he is already a doctor of technical sciences and professor. At this time he gets a chair at theSt. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications,where he works until 1941.In 1948 he was elected a corresponding member of theAcademy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

In the early 1950s, he moved to Moscow and, combining several disparate groups, created the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of theAcademy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.On December 17, 1956, A. A. Kharkevich gave a speech stating that"considering the set and value of communication problems, it is time to create Institute for Telecommunications in USSR Academy of Sciences, which has already been decided in principle, but is delayed for technical reasons".He headed this institute until his death. In 2004 the institute was named after A. A. Kharkevich.

In 1962, he published an article in the journal "Communist" about a computer network for processing information and control of the economy.In fact, he proposed to make a network like the modern Internet for the needs ofalgorithmic governance.

In his later years, A. A. Kharkevich focused on the development ofinformation theoryandcybernetics.He died on March 30, 1965, in Moscow. He is buried atNovodevichy Cemetery.

Awards

He was awarded theOrder of Leninand theOrder of the Red Banner of Labour.

Bibliography

A. A. Kharkevich published more than 100 scientific works and 12 books, many of which have had several editions and translated into several foreign countries (USA, France, Poland, China).