Pilnik (Plynyk) Grigoriy Petrovich General data:
05.11.1916 - 12.09.2000
Place of birth: Vladimirivka village, Horodnya County, Chernihiv Province, Russian Empire
Key interests: Earth's rotation, geophysics. ScD Thesis: World time and problems of Earth physics (1979 );
Biography:
He was born on October 23, 1916 in the Vladimirivka village of the Horodnya District of the Chernihiv Province of the Russian Empire (now the Vladimirivka village of the Horodynya District of the Chernihiv Region of Ukraine) in the family of a peasant.
In the early 1930s, the family left for Siberia.
In 1939, he graduated from the university in Khabarovsk city (according to other data, he graduated from the Far Eastern State University in Vladivostok city).
In February 1940, he was drafted into the Red Army. In 1945, he took part in the capture of Warsaw and the storming of Berlin in the rank of junior lieutenant. The beginning of the Great Patriotic War of the USSR against fascist Germany, which is part of the Second World War, was pledged by G. P. Pilnik in the Far East, where he served in the 184th Howitzer Artillery Brigade. During the battle for Berlin City G. P. Pilnik was engaged in topographic reconnaissance of the order of battle of batteries of heavy weapons, participated in fire control in the suburbs of Berlin City, the imperial chancellery and the Reichstag. Combat successes were awarded the Order of the Red Star and 2 Orders of the Patriotic War II degree. In April 1946, he participated in the work of Soviet experts on the study of the remains of German weapons - ballistic missiles "V-2" ("Fau-2").
Since 1946, he worked at the P. K. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, first as an observer, later as a research associate, since 1957 as a Senior Research Associate, time service specialist of the P. K. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. In addition, according to some sources, he worked at the Institute of Space Research in Moscow City.
For many years he conducted observations on a passage instrument. Researched and improved the work of passage instruments.
He paid great attention to the study of the geophysical parameters of the Earth's rotation and the calculation of Ljava's numbers based on the observations of the Russian Weather Service. G.P. Pilnyk is the author of more than 100 articles and reports at conferences.
In 1954, he defended his candidate's thesis.
In 1979, he defended his doctoral thesis on the topic: "Universal Time and Problems of Earth Physics."
He died on September 12, 2000 in Moscow City and buried at the Vahankiv cemetery.
Sources:
1 Àñòðîíîìû Ðîññèè 1917-2017/ íàó÷. ðåä. À.Ì.×åðåïàùóê, Êàçàíü, Êàçàí. ôåä. óí-ò, 2017.- 568ñ- C.369
2 geni.com
3 sm.evg-rumjantsev.ru
4 Àííà Ñåðãååâíà Ìèðîëþáîâà.Êîñìè÷åñêèé ìåìîðèàë
