Nikolai Varlamov

DSc in Engineering, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RF, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, Professor, founder and head of the Department of Automated Design and Control Systems at LISI (SPbGASU) from 1984 to 1999, retired Major General Nikolai Varlamov has always advised the younger generation value life first. Who, if not him, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, knows how fragile the life is. He looked death in the face, going on the attack at the front and losing his comrades, received a concussion, but reached Germany as part of the 2nd Belorussian Front.

The retired Major General is 97 years old, for health reasons he can no longer have long conversations, but his glorious combat path, military service and scientific work, including space exploration, are evidenced by his awards: three orders and 20 medals.

At the beginning of 1942, Nikolai Varlamov graduated ahead of schedule from the Yaroslavl vocational school No. 7 at the Electric Machine Building Plant with a degree in "Electric Master of Factory Electrical Equipment", and became a master of industrial training. Such an appointment involved a reservation. But in June 1943, when the young man was not even eighteen, he volunteered to join the Red Army, and a year later he graduated with honors from the Kalinkovichi Military Infantry School. And went to the front.

The junior lieutenant commands a platoon, a troop. And every battle is fought for the Motherland, for the father who died in 1942, for fallen fellow soldiers, women and children, for the future generations of our country. “The feeling of responsibility to the Motherland, which was fostered in me from childhood, helped me to survive in difficult wartime: gatherings of pioneer squads, love for work and respect for elders. And the war reminds itself all my life: from shell shock, the noise in my head torments me from the youth, ”says Nikolai Viktorovich.

Nikolai Varlamov met the victory in Germany. For forty years he served in the ranks of the Armed Forces and was engaged in science for sixty years. He went from a teacher to a professor at the Military Academy of Logistics and Transport, became a professor at the Department of Organization, Planning and Management of the Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering (SPbGASU). In 1984, he created the Department of Automated Design and Control Systems at our university and headed it for 15 years.

Nikolai Viktorovich is the author of a new system for training civil engineers. He contributed to projects related to space exploration, for which he was awarded the  K. E. Tsiolkovsky commemorative medal of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics. He took part in the development and implementation of more than 50 major scientific and technical projects, for one of which he was awarded the USSR State Prize. He has published more than 350 scientific papers, about 150 articles, 16 monographs, six textbooks, over 70 study guides. The professor has trained more than 300 specialists (military engineers, civil engineers, computer-aided design users, managers, etc.), 68 candidates and 16 doctors of science. As a supervisor, Nikolai Varlamov participated in the implementation of more than 60 scientific and technical projects, including the introduction of the latest information automated systems at all levels of management, including the management of the construction complex and the municipal economy, investment and construction activities in St Petersburg, an integrated system for designing and managing reconstruction and technical re-equipment of enterprises of the Russian construction industry, automation of the management of the rear of the Armed Forces. Many of the specialists trained by him later took leadership positions - heads of research institutes, heads of the central office, large design and construction organizations.

But in the pre-war forties, Nikolai Varlamov had to leave the Yaroslavl Chemical and Mechanical College only because the family did not have money to pay for his studies. “Purposefulness and step-by-step problem solving will always lead to success - my motto since my youth,” the veteran smiles.

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