Ivan Ivanovich Artobolevsky (; September 26 (9 October), 1905,

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– 21 September 1977, Moscow,

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) was a Soviet scientist and engineer, academic of the

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, and

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Biography

Artobolevsky was born into a clerical family in 1905. In 1938, at the time of the

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, his father was shot. In 1926, he graduated from the Moscow Agricultural Academy Timiryazev. In 1927, he graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of

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, and afterwards worked in teaching. Between 1932 and 1949 he was a professor at Moscow State University, first working in the Department of Theoretical Mechanics. In 1941, with Boris Bulgakov, Artobolevsky established the Department of Applied Mechanics, and served as its head from 1941 to 1944. From 1937, he also worked at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, and from 1942 was also a professor at the

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. In 1939, Artobolevsky was elected a corresponding member of the

, and in 1946 became a full member. During

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, he was chairman of the All-Union Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineers (VNITOMASh). Since 1947 - Deputy Chairman of the

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Society "Knowledge", in 1966 - Chairman of the All-Union Society "Knowledge". Deputy of the

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7th-9th convocation.

Honors and awards

*1969 -

. *1945 - Honored Scientist of the

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. *1946 - Prize of

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. *1959 -

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awarded the silver medal of the Joliot-Curie. *1966 -

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awarded the silver medal "For merits in development of science and society." *1967 -

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awarded the

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. He also was awarded the

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(1954, 1965, 1967, 1969), two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1945), as well as medals "For the Defense of Moscow (1944)," For heroic trud. V commemorate the 100th anniversary of Lenin (1970), "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." (1975)

Scientific Activities

Was a founder of the IFToMM -

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Research interests

Theory of machines and mechanisms problems of theoretical and experimental methods for studying the dynamics of working machines.

Scientific results

Developed a classification of spatial mechanisms and gave methods for

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analysis created methods of kinematic analysis of complex multi-tier mechanism (1939).

References

Sources

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