Anatoly Alexandrovich Maslov (; born 7 August 1946) is a Russian

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

and a professor at the Aerohydrodynamic Department at the

Novosibirsk State Technical University Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU), until 1992 the Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute (NETI), is one of the major research and educational centers of Russia as well as one of the top technical universities located in Novosibirsk, ...

, specialist in the field of

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Biography

In 1973, Anatoly Maslov defended his Ph.D. thesis "Stability of a compressible boundary layer over a cooled surface"; in 1988, he defended his doctoral dissertation "The onset of turbulence in supersonic boundary layers". In the same year, the scientist became the head of Laboratory No.13 of Physical Problems of Control of Gas-Dynamic Flows at the

Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, ITAM SB RAS () is a research institute in Akademgorodok of Novosibirsk, Russia. It was founded in 1957. History The institute was founded by Sergey ...

. Thanks to the skills of experimental work and numerical simulation in supersonic aerodynamics, as well as experience in large aerodynamic installations, he significantly intensified the scientific activity of the laboratory.

Suspicion of state treason and arrest

On 28 June 2022, Anatoly Maslov was arrested on suspicion of state

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. He was taken by plane to Moscow and placed in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. A few days later, another

Novosibirsk Novosibirsk is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and the Siberian Federal District in Russia. As of the 2021 Russian census, 2021 census, it had a population of 1,633,595, making it the most populous city in Siber ...

scientist, Dmitry Kolker was also arrested on suspicion of state treason. The trial has been registered with the St. Petersburg City Court on May 12, 2023, in a "top secret" case according to the court’s press office. On 21 May 2024, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

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Biography

Suspicion of state treason and arrest

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