The history of the national ICT: 120 years Alexander Sociopaths Chacin | 07.07.2020
In July 2020, the 120th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Nikolayevich Shchukin (1900 – 1990) – a prominent Soviet scientist in the field of radio engineering and radio physics, the author works on the theory and methods
calculation of the far short-wave communications, the founder of the theory of the underwater reception of radio signals, doctor of technical Sciences (1939), Professor (1939), academician of the USSR (1953),
Lieutenant-General-engineer (1962), Chairman of the scientific-technical Council of military-industrial complex (1958).
Born 10 (22) July 1900
in St. Petersburg in the family of a mining engineer. In 1917 he graduated from high school. In 1919 – 1921, he served in the red army. In 1921 he enrolled in the Electromechanical Department of the Petrograd
Polytechnic Institute. In 1924 he was transferred to the Leningrad electrotechnical Institute, from which he graduated in 1927 with a degree in radio engineering.
School A. N. Schukin combined with work in the Central radio laboratory (TSRL) a mechanic, a technician and an engineer. Doing research in the field of short waves. From 1928 he worked in
The Leningrad electro-physical Institute of the USSR. In 1929 – 1935, was a Professor in the Department of radio physics and mechanical faculty of Leningrad Polytechnic Institute,
he taught at other universities.
In 1932 – 1938 he worked in the research Maritime Institute of communication and telemechanics. The main scientific works of A. N. Shchukin dedicated to the propagation of electromagnetic oscillations in
different environments, processes of ionization of the earth’s atmosphere and their influence on radio wave propagation and radio communication, automatic control and applications of probability theory in these
areas.
Since 1935, engaged in teaching activities at the naval Academy. Since 1940, he is the head of the Department at the Academy, was drafted into the Navy where he was promoted to
the title of Colonel. In 1940 he created the course “radio wave Propagation”, who played a major role in the preparation of domestic radio personnel.
During the great Patriotic war, along with the Academy’s staff was evacuated, where A. N. Shukin has prepared the scientific work “noise Immunity of radio receivers”, which had great importance for
of radio communications. After returning to Leningrad from 1945 to 1949 he worked as head of Department in the naval Academy of shipbuilding and armament of them. A. N. Krylov.
In 1943, worked as a member of the Committee on the radar of the State Committee of defense of the USSR. In 1949 and left a teaching job and switched to scientific and
organizational work, being appointed Deputy chief 1-go Central administrative Board (GU) the Ministry of the Armed Forces of the USSR.
Since August 1950, A. N. Shchukin Deputy chief of the 3rd GU Council of Ministers of the USSRfrom July 1953 – the first Deputy chief of GU special machinery Minsredmash of the USSR. With
1955 – Deputy Chairman of the Special Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR on missile and rocket weapons.
From 1957 to 1975 the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on military-industrial issues and the Chairman Scientifically-technical Council military-industrial complex. In 1965, at the same time appointed
Vice-President, and in 1969 the Chairman of Scientific Council of as USSR on the problem of “Propagation.”
More materials on the life and activities of Soviet radio can be found on the website of the Virtual computer Museum www.computer-museum.ru.
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