Education

• Keldysh Applied Mathematics Institute of A - Dr. Sc. (Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences) – Advanced Degree in Spacecraft Dynamics, 1965
• Keldysh Applied Mathematics Institute – Ph.D. in Spacecraft Dynamics, 1962
• Moscow State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics – B.S.&M.S. in Analytical Mechanics, 1954

Professional Experience

• 1954-present: Research Associate, Senior Research Associate, Head Research Associate, Keldysh Applied Mathematics Institute, Moscow, Russia
• 1962- present: Professor, Moscow State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics, part time position

• Space flight dynamics
• Celestial mechanics
• Robotics
• Nonlinear problems of mechanics including resonances and chaos

Publications

More than 200 papers in journals and conference proceedings among them following 9 monographs


• Motion of an Artificial Satellite about its Center of Mass. Moscow, "Nauka", 1965 (in Russian), English translation: Israel Program for Scientific Translation, Jerusalem, 1966.
• Space Bodies Motion. Moscow. “Nauka”, 1972 (in Russian, to be published in English by "Birkhauser", Basel).
• Spacecraft Attitude Motion in Gravity Field. Moscow, Moscow State University, 1975 (in Russian).
• The Influence of Aerodynamics Forces on Spacecraft Rotation. Kiev. "Naukova Dumka", 1984 (in Russian).
• Two Lags Walking – The Model Problems of Dynamics and Control. Moscow, "Nauka", 1984.
• Magnetized Spacecraft Attitude Motion. Moscow. "Nauka", 1985 (in Russian).
• Dynamics of Space tether systems. Moscow. "Nauka", 1990 (in Russian). English translation: AAS Publ., Univelt Inc., San Diego, 1993.
• Resonance Rotations of Celestial Bodies. N. Novgorod, 1995 (in Russian)
• Regulaere and chaotishe Bewegung starrer Koerper. Teubner Verlag, Stuttgart, 1995

Additional Information

• Member of Russian Academy of Sciences (1997),
• Member of International Astronautics Academy (1992),
• Alexander fon Humboldt Prize (1992).