Romanov Yuriy Sergeevich General data:
13.05.1939 - 24.12.2015
Place of birth: Moscow City, Russian SSR
Studied in: I. I. Mechnikov Odessa State University (since 2000, I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National University) (1956-1961); A. S. Popov Odessa Electrotechnical Institute of Communications (since 2001, A. S. Popov Odessa National Academy of Communications) (1961-1965);
Key interests: instruments and devices, variable stars, space missions, solar corona. PhD Thesis: Investigation of the Blagaz effect in the variable star RZ Lyra (1974 I. I. Mechnikov Odessa State University);
Biography:
He was born on May 13, 1939, in Moscow City of the Russian SSR in the family of a builder, agree to a military doctor.
In 1944 the family arrived in Odessa from the Caucasus. Father, the major of the medical service, served throughout the Great Patriotic War, which was part of World War II as a part of the connection of mines and torpedo-minesweepers.
In 1954, a teenager began to study astronomy in a group of students, in the section of the Odessa branch of the All-Union Astronomical and Geodetic Society. Young astronomers They observed the variability of the brightness of the pulsating stars, studied with a telescope and painted the surface of the moon and Mars.
After graduating from the silver medal of the male school № 101 in 1956, the young man entered the physical faculty of the I. I. Mechnikov Odessa State University.
He was awarded a special sign (badge) for participating in observations of artificial Earth satellites under the program of the International Geophysical Year 1957.
At the Congress of Delegates of Universities and Pedagogical Institutions for the formation of groups of observers of artificial Earth concomitants at the end of July - in early August 1959 in Ashgabat was elected the Deputy Chief of the Odessa Observing Station of the artificial Earth's companions, being a student of the 2nd year of the I. I. Mechnikov Odessa State University.
In 1961 (according to other data a year later) he graduated from the I. I. Mechnikov Odessa State University in the specialty "physicist" and was accepted as a research fellow of the astronomical observatory, soon became an assistant to the chair of astronomy and the head of the observation station of the satellite station №1036. He studied the variable stars and participated in the construction of pavilions for astronomical instruments at the observation station in the Majaki village.
His thesis was devoted to research of the pulsating variable of the star RZ Lyra. The observational material of impeccable quality was obtained by him in Georgia at Abastumann on the camera of Schmidt. He passed the pre-diploma practice at the Pulkovo Observatory in the Department of Radio Astronomy. After receiving the diploma of radio and communication engineer, he spent some time reading radio astronomy course for Odessa students.
During 1961-1965 he was a student of the Evening Department of Radio Communication of the O. S. Popov Odessa Electrotechnical Institute of communication. Scientist studied radio engineering specialty.
Subsequently, he received the title of professor, six months from March to September 1964, served as Director of the Observatory, while on a business trip V. P. Tsesevich to Harvard (USA) for the exchange of scholars.
In 1962-1979 he was secretary of the Section of Astronomy of the Scientific and Technical Council under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR.
He studied radio astronomy at the I. I.Mechnikov Odessa State University, who developed.
He developed the Relief installation for recording spectrographs in direct intensities. For the creation of this device, he was awarded the bronze medal of the Exhibition of Achievements of the national economy.
Under his leadership, he was conceived and with the active participation of the post-graduate student S. M. Udovichenko created a unique device for determining the displacement of the spectral lines of the star relative to the standard, and the expansion of the line under the action of the magnetic field AstroSpidometr.
Since 1967 the frequent mission of a scientist to the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory has begun.
Since 1976 he was a member of the International Astronomical Union of Commissioners for pulsed variable stars and ray speeds, the chairman of the inter-branch environmental committee of the Odessa regional administration of the Union of Scientific and Engineering Societies of the USSR, of which he became a member in December 1978, a member of the European Union on the protection of the Black Sea coast, a member of the Ukrainian Ecological Academy of Sciences, a member of the All-Ukrainian Ecological League . Since 1980, he joined the Union of Scientific and Engineering Associations in the Odessa region, where he later became an honorary member.
He participated in an expedition to observe the darkening of the Sun near Novorossiysk in 1968.
In the 70-80's, the astronomer initiated work on the spectral quantitative classification of variable stars such as RR Lyra. For these studies, about 1,000 spectra of four pulsed stars and seventy stationary stars of comparison are obtained. Observation materials were obtained in the Crimea on a five-dimensional telescope in the summer of 1972.
In 1974 he defended at I. I. Mechnikov Odessa State University his Ph.D. thesis "Investigation of the Blagaz effect in the variable star RZ Lyra" and was appointed head of the department for the study of the physics of variable stars, which was created by Tsesevych V.P.
In 1976 he was again appointed Deputy Director of the Astronomical Observatory for Science.
In 1985, the Astronomical Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences noted the most important result of the astronomer's discovery of the change in the magnetic field in the pulsating stars. The scientist for this work was awarded a diploma and a medal of the Academy of Sciences of the socialist countries.
For almost 15 years, the scientist has led 12 state budget research topics and 40 pre-contract themes aimed at exploration of space in the visible and infrared range of the spectrum, geostationary satellites and other problems. Systematically participated in the work of scientific and technical councils on space issues at the State Optical Institute in Leningrad and the Pleshakov Radio Engineering Institute in Moscow.
In 1990, the scientist was elected People's Deputy of Ukraine (first convocation). He was a member of the "Center" deputy group. Year after year, he was marked by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for special merits to the state. During 1990-1992 he was chairman of the ecological committee of the Odessa Regional Council. Since 1992 he has been working as a deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Commission on ecology and rational nature management.
In the status of the chairman of the Subcommittee on Legal Issues on the Environment of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, in 1990, he was sent to Switzerland at the "Second World Climate Conference". And in 1992, he was a Ukrainian representative at the Conference on the Ecology of World Space in Thailand.
Since 1994 he has been working as Vice-Rector for Science of the I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National University.
During 1995-2008, he was the chairman of the public council for the state administration of environmental protection in the Odessa region.
Since May 1997, there was a Verification Audit Commission, Odesa Oblast NGO "Justice".
He died December 24, 2015 in Odessa.
Along with the reports, his creative work is 170 scientific works and the monograph "Physical Aspects of the Pulsating Nature of Variable Stars".
Main publications:
1. Comparative analysis of physical parameters of RR Lyrae / Romanov Yu.S., Zgonyaiko N.S., Vasilyeva S. V. // Odessa Astronomical Publications, vol 7, part1(1994), P 31-32
2. Романов Ю.С., Фенина З.Н. Физические аспекты пульсационной природы звезд типа RR Лиры.- Киев, 2004 г.
3. Колесник И. Г., Романов Ю. С. Исследование пульсирующих переменных звезд. II. Радиальные пульсации RZ Лиры//Астрометрия и астрофизика, 1973, № 18, С. 59-64
4. Романов Ю. С. Изменения фотометрических характеристик с периодом эффекта Блажко у RZ Лиры//Астрометрия и астрофизика, 1973, № 18, С. 65-78
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