IN MEMORY OF ACADEMICIAN VLADIMIR PAVLOVICH SHORIN

In December 2023, at the age of 85, Academician Vladimir Pavlovich Shorin, an outstanding scientific and public figure who played a key role in the creation of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the 90s and restoring the importance of education in the country, passed away. The words of Academician A.N. Krylov apply to the scientific activity of V.P. Shorin like nothing else: “We must remember that the costs of truly scientific creativity are then repaid in the life of the state not by a sevenfold, not a hundredfold, but by numbers for which there were no names in the ancient language.” Vladimir Shorin’s entire life was devoted to serving science, creating a new scientific school and new scientific directions. Having defended his doctoral dissertation and become a professor, he created a new educational department at the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute in the early 80s, which for a long time trained specialists in the field of automatic control of aircraft engines and laser technologies. After recent educational reforms, his department, already at Samara University, continues to train bachelors and masters in the field of production automation and robotics, which are in demand at enterprises in the region and throughout the country. Under his scientific leadership, several dozen of his followers defended their candidate and doctoral dissertations and earned academic titles. The scientific heritage of Vladimir Shorin includes dozens of books, several hundred scientific articles and dozens of patents. The Motherland highly appreciated the role of Vladimir Shorin in the creation of a scientific school, the leadership of science, his activities as a deputy in the country's legislative body, and the training of engineering and scientific personnel. Possessing high human qualities, Vladimir Shorin was the center of attraction for his employees and friends. He valued family ties very highly. He honored the memory of his parents and deceased brothers. The scientific community of the country, paying tribute to the memory of V.P. Shorin, continues to comprehend and develop his ideas. Life has shown that the scientific and engineering works of Academician Vladimir Pavlovich Shorin have received extremely wide application in practice and have given rise to the creation and development of new scientific directions.