Arkady Melua

Arkady Ivanovich Melua (Russian Аркадий Иванович Мелуа; born February 7, 1950 in Kasatin ) is a Russian engineer and scientist. He is Managing Director and Chief Editor of Science publishing house, which publishes the International Biographical Encyclopedia " Humanistica ". He is married and has one daughter and two sons.

Life and work

Melua was born on 7 February 1950 in Kasatin. Without interrupting his military service, he completed an engineering degree at the Leningrad Engineering and Construction Institute. Since 1969 he was employed as an engineer at the Department of Defense projects. Melua was involved in the establishment of a teaching nuclear reactor at one of the military academies, and led in 1974 to conduct scientific research.

Melua was a participant in the Soviet project of a long-term lunar base, which were led by WP Barmin, curator in Leningrad and NA Krylov. He was scientific secretary of the "moon laboratories " in Leningrad and was the organization of work and trials in a number of scientific research institutes of the country used. He went through short placements in Cartography at the University of Moscow, in cosmic -transfer technology to the WIKU and at the Department of Aviation and Space Medicine of the WMA in the medical- biological sector..

Activity in scientific committees and commissions

In this period he began to deal in connection with the patenting of explosion protection techniques of planned Mondbauten with scientific and technical documents of Alfred Nobel's family. End of the 70 years he held an international symposium in Novosibirsk a lecture on the use of cosmic technology in the civil sector. At this time began his collaboration with AL Yanshin and WP Kaznacheev, both members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He worked in the Science for the cosmic explorations of Siberia and the Far East, the Science for biosphere of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, in the Commission for the exploration of natural resources of the earth from the cosmos and in the Commission for the study of the scientific heritage of WI Vernadsky.

He was with the K. J. Kondratje one of the organizers of the Science Council for cosmic research on the economy at the foot of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Leningrad. In 1984 he successfully passed the medical examination in preparation for space flights and his PhD in 1985 from specialist technical sciences with the topic "Automated steering systems for cosmic objects". In 1991 he habilitated with the writing " Methodology of research of biosphere ".

Teaching and publication activities

Melua has published work in various fields of science and outputs of other writers cared, besides he has worked as a teacher since 1975. He has published over 800 works for the peaceful uses of space travel, to ecology, science and technology history, as well as on specific individual topics of engineering as well as aspects of the development of the financial market in Russia in the 1990s. Until 1995 he worked as a research assistant, director of the branch of the Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the RAN. He is the founder and since 1995 Director General of science publishing the encyclopedia " Humanistica ".

In 1990 he published the first list of words and the program of biographical encyclopedia: Melua is the author and editor of the first volumes of this series on the internet. He drew up a plan for the creation of a database and the publication of a 100 -volume Russian Biographical Encyclopedia ( RBE ), including the use of the archives of the Russian diasporas in over 120 countries and sat around it.

Nobel Prize and the History of Science

In 1986, Melua the International Society for the History of Science, whose president he became. The company researched since 1989, the " Nobel movement " as a social science and historical phenomenon. Melua signed the first in the USSR corresponding declarations in collaboration with the Nobel Foundation a joint statement (1990, 1991) and 1999, together with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences a paper on the dissemination of information about Nobel Laureates in Russia. With the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR and with the participation of the Russian ambassador in Sweden, BD Pankin, he introduced in September 1989 in Stockholm negotiations with the Nobel Foundation. The aim was to study the inheritance of the neutral Nobel family in the USSR, as well as the lighting of the " progressive ideas " of the Nobel family and the Nobel movement as a whole. He organized two " St. Petersburg symposia " by Nobel Laureates and 1991 prompted the installation of a memorial plaque to Alfred Nobel, who had lived in St. Petersburg in the Petrogradskaja Naberezhnaya No. 24. Was financed with funds the board of the International Society for the History of Science.

Together with DS Likhachev and L. Gyllensten, the President of the Soviet Fund for Culture and the Nobel Foundation, he initiated a collaboration between the two companies, which led to a declaration on cooperation in 1991. Melua explores the person of Alfred Nobel under the aspect of a person with humanistic qualities that are a priority for the peaceful progress of modern society. He is the editor of a Russian-language series of monographs on Nobel Prize winner ( " Nobel surveys " ) and a multi-volume edition " documents the life and work of the Nobel family." Its aim is to propagate the principles Nobels in other countries.

Memberships

Melua was from 1994-1996 board member of the " Industry and Construction Bank " oG (St. Petersburg). He is a member of many scientific societies and academies.

Awards

Source

• Arkady Ivanovich Melua, Biography, Eng.
• Entry in: Space Encyclopedia, russ.
• Joint project "Encyclopedia" of air and space " and" Humanistica " - " Encyclopedia of AI Melua on the Internet ", Russ

Credentials

• A. I. Melua: Launch of Space Technology. Nauka, Moscow, 1990, ISBN 5-02-005924-2.
• A. L. Yanshin, Melua AI: Lessons of Ecological miscalculations. Mysl, Moscow, 1991, ISBN 5-244-00442-5.
• A. I. Melua: V.I. Vernadsky is a scientist and coordinator of science. Leningrad, Leningrad 1990.
• A. I. Melua, G. M. Grechko, A. B. Peshkov, N.P. Selivanov: Earth - our home in the universe. Stroyizdat, 1983.
• A. I. Melua, T.N. Ponomareva: Inventions means and methods of studying the state and environmental protection. VINITI, Moscow 1991.