Today marks 75 years Robert Nigmatulin– an outstanding Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of thermophysics and mechanics of multiphase media and wave dynamics, public figure, academician and honorary professor of many foreign universities, director of the Institute of Oceanology. P.P. Shirshov RAS.
One can talk endlessly about the talent and merits of Robert Iskanderovich, but the main thing is that he is a person of a planetary dimension in many areas of science and education, and in terms of humanitarian initiatives. His penetrating mind and rational thinking are manifested in phenomenal analytics of the most diverse nuances of the socio-cultural everyday life of human existence.
A typical example: Nigmatulin did not stay away from the recent discussion in the press and in social networks about the protection and salvation of the Russian language in the national outskirts of Russia, which resulted in an appeal to the President of Russia. Understanding that this ambiguous and complex issue is multidimensional, but, contrary to the logic of common sense, is not included in the discourse of priority areas of the strategy national policy, the academician also said his weighty word here.
“I, like many Tatars, Bashkirs and other ethnic groups of Russia living in cities, have become Russian to a large extent in terms of my cultural and civic ideals ... However, this does not mean the need to break with my roots and the language of my ancestors, does not allow us to consider the multilingualism and multiethnicity of Russia as a relic ... Wrong are those who hope to strengthen the unity of the country by limiting the use of the "non-Russian" languages of Russia, and those who think to raise the importance of their language by reducing the use of Russian. For the vast majority of "non-Russian" compatriots, Russian is one of their native languages. It makes us smarter and more powerful. And this is good. The bad thing is that for a significant part of the population it is the only language. The loss of their native language is the pain of many ethnic groups; it needs to be understood and felt by everyone, especially Russians, when discussing the interethnic problems of Russia" he writes.
These words of a great scientist, in my opinion, are consonant with the thoughts of the national poet of Yakutia Danilov's seeds:
“I have the key to all sciences,
I am familiar with the whole universe -
It's because I own
Russian inclusive language.
Robert Nigmatulin, according to the deep conviction of many of his friends and associates, is one of the most far-sighted humanist patriots modern Russia. He fully supports the idea of forming a sustainable national and cultural identity of civil society Russian state. And on this path, he considers it fundamentally important to establish a research and information-analytical platform for the systematic implementation of the state national policy, its highly professional public administration and rational updating of the socio-humanitarian "Russian question" in priority areas domestic policy states.
These theses are in great demand today and, of course, require serious reflection.
I join all the good-hearted wishes to my comrade.
Sincerely,
Alexey TOMTOSOV.
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Nigmatullin Robert Iskanderovich born in 1940
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor. Director of the Institute of Oceanology. P.P. Shirshov RAS. Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan. A prominent scientist in the field of mechanics, the creator of the world's leading scientific school in the mechanics of multiphase systems.
He graduated from two universities - Moscow State Technical University. Bauman (Faculty of Power Engineering), majoring in Mechanical Engineer for Turbine Engineering and Moscow State University. Lomonosov (Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty) with a degree in mathematics.
Since 1963 he worked at the Institute of Mechanics as a junior, since 1970 as a senior researcher, since 1974 as head of the sector, since 1980 as head of the laboratory of mechanics of multiphase media.
Since 1972, he has been working as a professor at the Department of Wave and Gas Dynamics of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. Lomonosov.
In 1967 he defended his candidate's and in 1971 his doctoral dissertations in physical and mathematical sciences.
In 1986, at the invitation of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, he moved with a group of students to Tyumen to organize the Tyumen Scientific Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
First, he worked as Deputy Director of the Institute for Problems of the Development of the North, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Thermal Physics, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and since 1989, the organizing director of the Institute of Mechanics of Multiphase Systems of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Concurrently, in 1986, he organized the Department of Mechanics of Multiphase Media at the Tyumen State University. Chairman of the Ufa Scientific Center (UNC) RAS.
Concurrently (1995 - 2004) - President of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Bashkortostan. Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He was elected a deputy of the State Assembly of the Republic of Bashkortostan, and in 1999 he was elected a deputy State Duma Russian Federation, was the chairman of the Supreme Ecological Council and was a member of the Russian Regions deputy group. He was the author of several laws, including laws on the handling of irradiated nuclear fuel. Represented the State Duma in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Has over 200 scientific publications, among which 8 books, is the author of 21 copyright certificates (patents).
Among the students of R.I. Nigmatulin 25 doctors and 50 candidates of sciences, three directors of academic institutes, one corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Awarded the Order of Honor, the Lenin Komsomol Prize for the cycle scientific works on continuum mechanics.
In 1983 he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR for a series of scientific papers on the wave dynamics of gas-liquid media.
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Robert Iskandrovich Nigmatulin(tat. Robert İskändär ulı Niğmätullin; R. ) is a mechanical scientist. Director since 2006, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991, Section of Mathematics, Mechanics, Informatics), ex-president of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Bashkortostan, deputy of the State Duma of the third convocation.
Biography
Since 2010 - Head of the Department of Wave and Gas Dynamics of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University.
In 2013, he signed a statement by a number of academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences refusing to join the new "RAS" in the event of its reorganization.
Political activity
He was elected a deputy of the State Assembly - Kurultai of the Republic of Bashkortostan in 1999. In 1999, he was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the Kirov single-mandate constituency of the Republic of Bashkortostan, nominated directly by voters. He was a member of the deputy group "Regions of Russia", a member of the Committee on Ecology, chairman of the Supreme Ecological Council.
Titles and awards
- Nigmatulin R. I. Fundamentals of mechanics of heterogeneous media. - M .: Nauka, 1978. - 336 p.
- Nigmatulin R. I. Dynamics of multiphase media. Part I. - M .: Nauka, 1987. - 464 p.
- Nigmatulin R. I. Dynamics of multiphase media. Part II. - M .: Nauka, 1987. - 360 p.
- Nigmatulin R. I. Continuum mechanics. Kinematics. Dynamics. Statistical dynamics. - M .: GEOTAR-Media, 2014. - 640 p. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9704-2898-6.
Among the students of R. I. Nigmatulin: 23 doctors and 50 candidates of sciences, 3 directors of academic institutions, 1 corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Family and hobbies
He is married, has a son, Tagir (b. 1969) and a daughter, Karima (b. 1984 - Acting Director of the Institute of the State Unitary Enterprise NIiPI of the General Plan of Moscow). Hobbies: Russian and foreign literature, Bashkir poetry, car rides, travel.
The academician has a democratic attitude towards the possibility of scientific migration. At one of the open lectures at Tyumen State University, he spoke about the fate of his two children, who studied and worked in the United States, returned and now live in Russia.
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- Didn't he write wills! the princess said calmly. - But he could not bequeath to Pierre. Pierre is illegal.“Ma chere,” Prince Vasily suddenly said, pressing the table to him, perking up and starting to talk more quickly, “but what if the letter is written to the sovereign, and the count asks to adopt Pierre? You see, according to the merits of the count, his request will be respected ...
The princess smiled, the way people smile who think they know a thing more than those they talk to.
“I’ll tell you more,” continued Prince Vasily, grabbing her by the hand, “the letter was written, although not sent, and the sovereign knew about it. The only question is whether it is destroyed or not. If not, then how soon everything will end, - Prince Vasily sighed, making it clear that he meant by the words everything will end, - and the count's papers will be opened, the will with the letter will be handed over to the sovereign, and his request will probably be respected. Pierre, as a legitimate son, will receive everything.
What about our unit? asked the princess, smiling ironically as if anything but this could happen.
- Mais, ma pauvre Catiche, c "est clair, comme le jour. [But, my dear Katish, it's clear as day.] He alone is then the rightful heir to everything, and you won't get any of this. You should know, my dear, were the will and letter written and destroyed, and if for some reason they are forgotten, then you should know where they are and find them, because ...
- It just wasn't enough! the princess interrupted him, smiling sardonically and without changing the expression of her eyes. - I am a woman; according to you we are all stupid; but I know so well that an illegitimate son cannot inherit ... Un batard, [Illegal,] - she added, believing that this translation would finally show the prince his groundlessness.
- How can you not understand, finally, Katish! You are so smart: how can you not understand - if the count wrote a letter to the sovereign, in which he asks him to recognize his son as legitimate, then Pierre will no longer be Pierre, but Count Bezukha, and then he will receive everything according to the will? And if the will with the letter is not destroyed, then you, except for the consolation that you were virtuous et tout ce qui s "en suit, [and everything that follows from this] will have nothing left. That's right.
– I know that the will is written; but I also know that it is not valid, and you seem to consider me a complete fool, mon cousin, ”said the princess with that expression with which women speak, believing that they said something witty and insulting.
“You are my dear Princess Katerina Semyonovna,” Prince Vasily spoke impatiently. - I came to you not to quarrel with you, but to talk about your own interests as with my own, good, kind, true relatives. I tell you for the tenth time that if a letter to the sovereign and a will in favor of Pierre are in the papers of the count, then you, my dear, and with your sisters, are not an heiress. If you don’t believe me, then believe people who know: I just spoke with Dmitri Onufriich (he was the lawyer at home), he said the same thing.
Apparently, something suddenly changed in the thoughts of the princess; thin lips turned pale (the eyes remained the same), and her voice, while she spoke, broke through with such peals as she herself apparently did not expect.
“That would be good,” she said. I didn't want anything and don't want to.
She kicked her dog off her knees and straightened the folds of her dress.
“This is gratitude, this is gratitude to the people who sacrificed everything for him,” she said. - Wonderful! Very good! I don't need anything, prince.
“Yes, but you are not alone, you have sisters,” Prince Vasily answered.
But the princess did not listen to him.
“Yes, I knew this for a long time, but I forgot that, apart from baseness, deceit, envy, intrigues, except ingratitude, the blackest ingratitude, I could not expect anything in this house ...
Do you or don't you know where this will is? asked Prince Vasily with even more twitching of his cheeks than before.
- Yes, I was stupid, I still believed in people and loved them and sacrificed myself. And only those who are vile and vile have time. I know whose intrigues it is.
The princess wanted to get up, but the prince held her by the hand. The princess had the appearance of a man suddenly disillusioned with the whole human race; she glared angrily at her interlocutor.
“There is still time, my friend. You remember, Katish, that all this happened by accident, in a moment of anger, illness, and then forgotten. Our duty, my dear, is to correct his mistake, to ease his last moments by preventing him from committing this injustice, not letting him die thinking that he made those people unhappy ...
“Those people who sacrificed everything for him,” the princess picked up, trying to get up again, but the prince did not let her in, “which he never knew how to appreciate. No, mon cousin,” she added with a sigh, “I will remember that in this world no reward can be expected, that in this world there is neither honor nor justice. In this world, one must be cunning and evil.
- Well, voyons, [listen,] calm down; I know your beautiful heart.
No, I have a bad heart.
“I know your heart,” the prince repeated, “I appreciate your friendship and would like you to have the same opinion about me.” Calm down and parlons raison, [let's talk plainly,] while there is time - maybe a day, maybe an hour; tell me everything you know about the will, and, most importantly, where it is: you must know. We'll take it now and show it to the count. He probably forgot about him already and wants to destroy him. You understand that my one desire is to sacredly fulfill his will; I then just came here. I'm only here to help him and you.
“Now I understand everything. I know whose intrigues it is. I know, - said the princess.
“That is not the point, my soul.
- This is your protegee, [favorite,] your dear Princess Drubetskaya, Anna Mikhailovna, whom I would not want to have a maid, this vile, vile woman.
– Ne perdons point de temps. [Let's not waste time.]
- Oh, don't talk! Last winter she rubbed herself in here and said such nasty things, such nasty things to the count about all of us, especially Sophie - I can’t repeat it - that the count became ill and did not want to see us for two weeks. At this time, I know that he wrote this nasty, vile paper; but I thought this paper meant nothing.
– Nous y voila, [That's the point.] Why didn't you tell me before?
“In the mosaic briefcase he keeps under his pillow. Now I know,” said the princess, without answering. “Yes, if there is a sin for me, a big sin, then it is hatred for this bastard,” the princess almost shouted, completely changed. “And why is she rubbing herself here?” But I will tell her everything, everything. The time will come!
While such conversations were taking place in the reception room and in the princess's rooms, the carriage with Pierre (who was sent for) and Anna Mikhailovna (who found it necessary to go with him) drove into the courtyard of Count Bezukhoy. When the wheels of the carriage sounded softly on the straw laid under the windows, Anna Mikhailovna, turning to her companion with comforting words, convinced herself that he was sleeping in the corner of the carriage, and woke him up. Waking up, Pierre got out of the carriage after Anna Mikhailovna, and then only thought of that meeting with his dying father that awaited him. He noticed that they did not drive up to the front, but to the back entrance. While he was getting off the footboard, two men in bourgeois clothes hurriedly ran away from the entrance into the shadow of the wall. Pausing, Pierre saw in the shadow of the house on both sides several more of the same people. But neither Anna Mikhailovna, nor the footman, nor the coachman, who could not but see these people, paid no attention to them. Therefore, this is so necessary, Pierre decided with himself, and followed Anna Mikhailovna. Anna Mikhailovna with hasty steps walked up the dimly lit narrow stone stairs, calling Pierre, who was lagging behind her, who, although he did not understand why he had to go to the count at all, and still less why he had to go along the back stairs, but , judging by the confidence and haste of Anna Mikhailovna, he decided to himself that this was necessary. Halfway down the stairs they were almost knocked down by some people with buckets, who, clattering with their boots, ran towards them. These people pressed against the wall to let Pierre and Anna Mikhailovna through, and did not show the slightest surprise at the sight of them.
If the Institute of Oceanology were given funding equal to the cost of one football player, scientific vessels would not have to be leased to businessmen
Officials, who have already completely destroyed education, medicine and culture, have also reached science. Director of the Institute of Oceanology Academician Nigmatullin paints a terrible picture of the total destruction of science, without which the existence of the people and the state is generally impossible. The usual salary of a scientist in Russia is about 10,000 rubles, and institutes are forced to rent out scientific equipment in order to survive. But tens of billions of dollars are spent on various amusements, such as the Olympics. Now the officials will completely take over the management of the academy, and it will be completely destroyed, turning into a club of interests.
Basically, nothing yet. All these years, the funding of the RAS has followed a peculiar path. Every year, since we are state employees, due to inflation, our wage fund was slightly increased, without increasing the funding itself. As a result, today the share attributable to the salaries of employees is 70 percent of all that we are allocated.
This is not how science develops. We need to go on expeditions, acquire new appliances, maintain buildings, and so on. And if funding does not increase in the coming years, then the number of scientists will have to be reduced. Otherwise, we will all die at the same time.
For our institute, the most serious expenses are related to the maintenance of courts. The money that we currently receive from the state is enough for exactly one week of operation of each ship a year. What does it mean? I can walk from Kaliningrad to St. Petersburg and back, but I can’t go to the ocean.
- Is that why you rent out ships? Do you hear a lot of criticism about this?
Indeed, we have to take this necessary measure in order to somehow preserve the research fleet and conduct ocean expeditions. Two of our ships have a passenger class. Travel Company rents one of them for our winter and drives to the southern tip South America, where he carries out excursions for several months. The journey in each direction (for us it is free of charge) takes a month and a half, and we schedule all the stops by the hour so that we get exactly the week for which we are allocated funding. The same picture is obtained when, in our summer, a ship goes to a northern Canadian port, three weeks there and then three weeks back. During the journey, we carry out the planned measurements and experiments.
But our largest ship, the Keldysh, is idle. We would gladly rent it to any company for engineering work or environmental research. In the meantime, it is not just idle, but ruins us. You can't close it and leave. One day in the port costs 2.5 thousand dollars, plus the cost of electricity and maintenance, plus the salary of the crew, which must be at the European level, otherwise people will scatter. And we have a crew of 225 - people.
- How expensive is the maintenance of one vessel?
In no case should the bureaucracy interfere in the affairs of science, culture and education. And reforms in these areas should be very conservative and cautious. Sudden changes do not give anything good. Over the past decades, we have been continuously changing the system of education and healthcare, but it is not getting better. Where, tell me, has it become better, in what area? Compared with Soviet Union, probably, only the car has become easier to fill up, since there is no shortage of gasoline and there are no queues at gas stations.
THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES IS TURNED INTO A CLUB OF INTERESTS
All academic institutes, and this is about a thousand institutions, gradually and finally cease to be institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and come under the jurisdiction of federal agency scientific organizations (FANO).
The head of FASO has already been appointed, and now the regulation on this still obscure organization is being actively developed. It is in its bowels that the financing of our institutes and the number of employees will be determined, and scientific programs will be approved there. All decisions relating to our lives will be made by this organization, completely far from us. The former academy of sciences and academicians are practically excluded from this. There are plans to significantly reduce the number of both institutions and employees. Personally, I have all this causes great concern. Why did they suddenly begin to believe that officials will turn out the best leaders than from scientists? Name at least one project where they do something reasonable? Maybe Oboronservis? We remember very well and see what came out of it. What gives officials the right to believe that our system is ineffective?
At a recent meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the president of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences drew attention to just one fundamental point. One of the tasks facing his academy was to provide scientific progress and scientific level Agriculture. And to the extent possible, this was done. What do we have today? Institutes transferred to the jurisdiction of FASO, that is, a bureaucratic institution. Can it be responsible for the scientific and technological level of agriculture? The same question can be asked in medicine and any science-intensive industry.
- What will happen to the academicians, former members of the Russian Academy of Sciences?
Apparently, the former Academy of Sciences will turn into a club of scientists. From time to time we will gather in departments, listen to scientific reports, discuss them and ... that's all.
- Now the regulation on FANO is being prepared. Do academics take part in this?
Representatives of the now former RAS are trying to coordinate all important decisions with the Presidium of the RAS. By the way, an amazing metamorphosis took place with the version of the provision on FANO, which appeared on the government website - everything positive that was contained in the law in relation to the Academy of Sciences disappeared from it. Now FASO determines everything: it manages property, forms work plans, finances them and pursues a personnel policy. There is an attempt to organize a kind of scientific council under FASO, which would include members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, representatives of institutes and a group of officials. I can only say one thing, our life will become much more complicated.
A general meeting of members of the Academy of Sciences is planned for March, at which a new presidium will be elected and a new charter adopted. True, the adopted decisions will not concern institutions.
The creation of an agency like FANO will take more than one month. I think it will take the whole next year. We still have a glimmer of hope that such fundamental issues as the approval of work plans and the appointment of directors of institutes will somehow be coordinated with the Russian Academy of Sciences. But this is still not reflected in the regulation on FANO.
« WE DO NOT RECEIVE A PENNY FROM THE MILITARY DEPARTMENTS»
The world is on the threshold new era deep sea mining. This raises the question, how ready is modern Russia to participate in this, when our leading research vessels and the famous deep-sea submersibles MIR have been idle for years at the berths of the Kaliningrad seaport, waiting for applications from the government and large national companies?
We are not only ready, but already participating. This year, a group of our employees even received an award from the Russian government for the environmental part of the work on the development of sulfur ores on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Participation in such studies is extremely important and we will continue to do so.
If a country is engaged in research, participates in expeditions, then this secures its right to this territory. For example, in pacific ocean there is a Clarion - Clipperton zone, where we have our own "piece". If we conduct research, equip expeditions there, then this secures our right to this territory.
- In front of your institute stands state task- justify the division of the Arctic shelf ...
If we prove, and only scientists can do this, that it is a continuation of the continental foundation, then this will be our territory. And our institute is involved in solving this most important task for Russia.
If we talk about the defense and the navy, then today we do not receive a penny from the military departments. This is fundamentally the wrong situation. Let's take the submarine fleet. We must not only defend against the submarines of potential enemies, but also be able to detect them in time. And that's pretty difficult task. The scientists of our institute are well aware of the seasonal situation in any area, including the area where unexpected guests may come. And even small changes that have occurred in one water area relative to the seasonal background may be a sign of the presence of an alien object.
« THERE IS NO TREND WITH A DECREASE IN THE GULF STREAM CONSUMPTION»
What about climate issues? There is a lot of talk about global warming these days. Surely your institute is also dealing with these issues.
I think you've heard the hypothesis that the Gulf Stream is stopping. The Americans even made a very interesting film on this topic. It says that as a result of the melting of the Arctic and Greenland glaciers, meltwater goes to the Atlantic and slows down the Gulf Stream. Therefore, heat does not come from the south, and New York and Europe freeze. We send two expeditions there every year and we know perfectly well that although the Gulf Stream discharge fluctuates, there is no trend with a decrease in the Gulf Stream discharge.
Humanity last years argues a lot about the offensive global warming, different points of view are expressed. If it comes, then it is necessary to prepare and make economic decisions, for example, to reduce the amount of fuel burned.
The climate is determined primarily by the ocean, which can be called a dictator. The atmosphere is very unstable, the temperature changes several times every day. And the ocean is stable. Changes in it are slow and difficult to find, but extremely important. This is the specificity of ocean research.
Today, the idea that the Earth will soon be unable to feed its population is being voiced louder and louder.
And in this aspect, the ocean can come to the rescue, since it has huge reserves of protein food for humanity. Add to this the possibility of aquaculture. And this is the development of new ocean technologies. Do not forget that the ocean covers 72 percent of the territory the globe. And Russia will remain great country as long as it remains an ocean power. I consider the presence of the Russian research fleet in the oceans to be a necessary condition for the development of Russian civilization.
- Do you know how to predict tsunamis?
To date, we have developed a theory of tsunami prediction. And if a wave has arisen somewhere (its speed reaches the speed of an airplane), then we can determine where it will come and warn people so that they have time to climb the hill. Such predictions are determined by little-studied and hard-to-understand processes in the depths of the Earth. Simply put, tsunamis are caused by earthquakes under the ocean floor.
Now we already know that significant relative displacements of the plates and their large deformations occur in the places where the plates collide. If they are elastic, then there is no seismic noise. This means that there is an accumulation of elastic deformations, which can lead to their explosive release, as happens when a stretched spring bursts. If a plate measuring one hundred by one hundred kilometers rises or falls by only one meter, then the energy of the raised water will be the same as from tens of millions of atomic bombs. This potential energy turns into the kinetic energy of the movement of water, and the resulting wave is called a tsunami. If the movement of the plates goes without the accumulation of elastic energy, a certain seismic noise is heard. And this indicates the absence of the accumulation of elastic energy, the threat of an earthquake and the threat of a tsunami. Understanding of all these processes has come in recent decades. Progress, of course, is colossal, but it is achieved with hard work. The accumulation of deformations is also difficult to study on land, let alone the ocean. But we are trying.
Does the ocean willingly reveal its secrets? How much is still unknown?
The unknown, as always, is more than the known. We talked about one problem - the tsunami. We already understand something. Places where the accumulation takes place can be found out, but such work is very expensive.
Remember 2004 when the tsunami hit the island of Sumatra? Huge number of dead. Our Russian Vasily Titov from Novosibirsk, he now lives in America and works in the PLA laboratory, has developed a tsunami warning program. With its help, he can determine how the resulting wave will propagate depending on the topography of the bottom, on the outlines of the continent, and so on. When a tsunami was announced on the news, he went to the laboratory and, using his program, predicted where and when to expect this wave. And became famous.
The man went to America, established himself as a scientist, but the quality of our people has fallen, since a great talent was not realized in our country. And officials, if they run away from us, then only to escape responsibility for theft. Who will answer for this? Who is responsible for our the best minds leaving Russia? Academics? No. I know a lot of talented guys who literally starved in the 90s and rushed to the West. Not everyone succeeded, some were unlucky.
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Robert Nigmatulin - Director of the Institute of Oceanology Shirshov RAS, full member of the RAS.
Born in 1940 in Moscow into a Tatar family. Paternal uncle - professor of medicine, founder of the Bashkir Medical Institute. Two brothers - professors, doctors technical sciences.
Graduated from Moscow State Technical University. Bauman (1963) and the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. Lomonosov (1965), Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor.
He worked at the Institute of Mechanics of Moscow State University, taught at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University.
Since 1986 - worked at the Tyumen Scientific Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences, organized the Institute of Mechanics of Multiphase Systems. Until now, he is the scientific director of the Physics Department of Tyumen State University.
1987 - elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
1991 - elected as an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
1993 - 2006 - Chairman of the Presidium of the Ufa Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Since 2010 - Head of the Department of Wave and Gas Dynamics of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University.
He was a deputy of the State Assembly of the Republic of Bashkortostan, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
Member of the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, member of the editorial boards of leading international journals on mechanics and thermal physics.
Laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1973), Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1983), Laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (2012).
Married, has a son Tagir (b. 1969) and a daughter Karima (b. 1984) - acting. Director of the Institute GUP NIiPI General Plan of Moscow.
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Robert Iskanderovich Nigmatulin (Tat. Robert Iskandar uly Nigmatullin, Robert İskändär ulı Niğmätullin; born June 17, 1940) - Director of the Institute of Oceanology. P. P. Shirshov of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2006, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991, Section of Mathematics, Mechanics, Informatics), ex-president of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Bashkortostan, deputy of the State Duma of the third convocation.
Born June 17, 1940 in Moscow. Tatar. Parents: Nigmatulin Iskander Nigmatulovich (1908-1980) and Gazizova Galia Lutfullovna (1914-2005). His father's elder brother Geniatulla Teregulov graduated from Moscow University, was a professor of medicine, founded the Bashkir medical institute. Brothers Bulat Iskanderovich Nigmatulin, professor, doctor of technical sciences and Rais Iskanderovich Nigmatulin, professor, doctor of technical sciences.
Graduated from Moscow State Technical University. N.E. Bauman in 1963 and the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov in 1965, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor.
Scientific activity of Robert Nigmatulin
Have worked Robert Nigmatulin at the Institute of Mechanics of Moscow State University and taught at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. Since 1986, he worked at the Tyumen Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, organized the Institute of Mechanics of Multiphase Systems. He is the scientific director of the Physics Department of the Tyumen State University (see the Faculty of Physics of the Tyumen state university). Approximately once a year, usually in March, he comes to Tyumen with interesting lectures on applied mathematics, economics, oceanology, modern science and engineering.
In 1987, Robert Nigmatulin was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and in 1991 he was elected an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
From 1993 to 2006 Robert Nigmatulin- Chairman of the Presidium of the Ufa Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Since 2010 Robert Nigmatulin- Head of the Department of Wave and Gas Dynamics of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University
Political activities of Robert Nigmatulin
elected Robert Nigmatulin Deputy of the State Assembly-Kurultai of the Republic of Bashkortostan in 1995 and 1999. In 1999, he was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the Kirov single-mandate constituency of the Republic of Bashkortostan, nominated directly by voters. He was a member of the deputy group "Regions of Russia", a member of the Committee on Ecology, chairman of the Supreme Ecological Council.
Titles and awards of Robert Nigmatulin
Member of the Russian National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Member of the editorial boards of leading international journals in mechanics and thermal physics
Laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1973)
Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1983)
Government Prize Laureate Russian Federation in Science and Technology (2012)
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree (April 25, 2011) - for huge contribution into development domestic science and many years of fruitful activity
Order of Honor (2000)
Gold medal of VDNKh of the USSR
Gold medal of the Federation of Cosmonautics of the Russian Federation. Makeev and them. Tsiolkovsky
Diploma of the first degree at the competition fundamental research USSR Academy of Sciences (1990)
Family and hobbies Robert Nigmatulin
Robert Nigmatulin- married, has a son Tagir (b. 1969) and daughter Karimu, acting Director of the Institute GUP NIiPI General Plan of Moscow(b. 1984).
Nigmatulins
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Robert Nigmatulin is one of the most brilliant personalities of modern Russia. And at the same time, he is also a link in the "golden chain" - a whole galaxy of talented relatives. So, of course, nature distributed the genes. So, apparently, the spirit of kinship, the atmosphere of the native home affect. However, has anyone been able to figure out why talent does not like loneliness and therefore sometimes settles in “nests”, why a talented person turns out to be talented in everything. About the relatives of Academician R.I. Nigmatulin and about himself - in this material.
Two portraits
The first thing that catches the eye in the Nigmatulins' apartment is two front doors, as this genre was once called, portraits of the owners. However, usually in the "ceremonial" scenery, orders, jewelry - indicators of wealth, fame, position in society - played a huge role. There is, of course, nothing here: just close-ups. Beautiful and significant faces are depicted. This is quite enough.
The author is the famous artist Akhmet Kitaev. He was friends with Robert Nigmatulin for 35 years. They would still be friends, but in 1996 Kitaev died. When this happens, you always suffer from a guilt complex: you didn’t have time to say some words, you didn’t see each other again. All things…
- It hurts to realize, - says Robert Iskanderovich, - that because of my constant traveling between Moscow, Ufa and New York, I so rarely saw him. He "caught" me on the phone, invited me to the workshop to drink tea, and I postponed our meeting. I thought a little more and I'll be freer. Then we'll sit down and talk. And then suddenly it turned out that there was no one to go to, the workshop was empty.
The artist at one time managed to present him with a truly royal gift: a portrait for his 40th birthday. “I am shown in some kind of impulse,” comments Robert Iskanderovich. “Although I can hardly believe that I am like that.” Despite the slight self-irony, it is felt that he likes the portrait. He posed for twenty hours (an hour or two per session). They talked - they were not silent. We used this rare opportunity in case of chronic lack of time. The artist, like the actors before going on stage, tuned in for a long time before each session, was nervous and did not tolerate being late. His friend, by the way, was never late. Accuracy is a courtesy not only of kings, but also of scientists.
Venus Nigmatulin is as feminine and good as the name she got. It feels overflowing with life, showing through in every movement, look, smile, without which any beauty is cold - this was best said by Leo Tolstoy in "War and Peace". Kitaev promised: "I'll draw you like champagne splashes." And the creative task was completed. The portrait is sparkling.
Today these portraits are a memory of a dear person. And a reminder of what they were twenty years ago. Although, in my opinion, they have changed a little. Apparently, the rhythm in which they live does not allow them to succumb to the years.
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Robert Iskanderovich Nigmatulin is an outstanding scientist who created a whole scientific school. Academician Russian Academy Sciences, member of many scientific communities, president of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Bashkortostan, deputy of the State Duma.
His wife Venera Abdrakhmanovna, candidate of technical sciences, associate professor, taught the basics of scientific and technical photography, forensic photography at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and Tyumen State University.
Two children - Karima and Tagir. Karima is a student, Tagir is a scientist.
Venus
Her father had a rare profession. He belonged to a tribe of filmmakers. No, he was not an actor or director. Even the operator, although it is already warmer. Abdrakhman Abdrashitovich Gallyamov first graduated from projectionist courses and showed films in the villages, then still silent, at the same time educating fellow villagers about "the most massive of the arts." Then he continued his education in Voronezh and became a technician for the installation of equipment and the operation of sound films. He returned to Tatarstan, married Amina Saifullovna, a beautiful young teacher who had just graduated from the Pedagogical Institute, and began to live and work in Bugulma and the region, where he was in charge of the entire cinema system.
1941, war. Abdrakhman Abdrashitovich left his young wife with a tiny daughter and went to the front. Among the documents, his daughter still has a thinned sheet of "Front Truth" for 1944: "There are many fighters of non-Russian nationality in the unit of Captain Lobodenko. All of them show a keen interest in current events in the life of the country. At political classes it turned out that all fighters of non-Russian nationality "They mastered the Stalinist documents well. This is primarily the merit of their group leader, senior sergeant Gallyamov. The group leader translates everything incomprehensible into his native language."
And his wife Amina at that time taught at school Tatar language and literature and fought like a fish on ice to feed herself and little Venus. It is not known whether she would have survived if not for her parents. They overcame sixty kilometers on a sleigh in order to give her at least some food from the village of Almetyevo. Moreover, the deaf-mute sister Khatima helped with the housework. Amina Saifullovna had the bitterest test - to receive a funeral for her husband. Then it turned out that he had been shell-shocked in the hospital for several months, someone had messed up something. This has happened.
In August 1945, from the military unit where Gallyamov served, the secretary of the Bugulma district party committee received a letter signed by Captain Vasiliev. The message is correct, but essentially strict: "I would like to draw your attention with this letter to help Mr. Galliamova Amina, who is in your city and works as a teacher of literature in a Tatar secondary school, who has a dependent daughter Venus and a disabled sister. As a wife a serviceman who is in a military unit, she does not have the opportunity to get firewood, bypassing a number of institutions, such as the Military Commissariat and others. Comrade Gallyamov does the work of an officer, he is a member of the party bureau of the unit. His family deserves a sensitive attitude towards her. this issue prompt participation and report the result to the address ... "The letter had an effect and the strict captain Vasiliev waited for an answer.
Mom and daughter waited for their front-line soldier. Peaceful life began. A son was born, but he lived only two weeks: he burned out from pneumonia (there were no antibiotics then). And then some girls went - Rosa, Zemfira (whooping cough killed her three months from birth), Rimma, again Zemfira. A large and friendly family in which the father was the breadwinner, and the mother was the soul. She introduced a strict rule in home life - reading Tatar classics aloud. Tatar was spoken in the house, although Venera went to a Russian school, which was more promising in terms of entering the institute. This has been thought about for a long time.
The girl was fantastically lucky with teachers. When, after school, she will enter the Leningrad Institute of Film Engineers (the only such university in the country: it is no coincidence that the competition there was at least 25 people per place), entrance exams it will be much easier for her than for many Leningraders who have been studying with tutors for several years. But the most important person in the life of Venus was her mother.
- Poor mother! How did she manage both with her endless notebooks and with the household? We had ducks, chickens, a cow, which my parents then sold to buy me a piano. It has been preserved, it stands in our apartment in Ufa. It was difficult to live. Huge queues lined up even for bread from the very dawn. True, her father helped her. I got up at four in the morning to bring bread for breakfast. Everyone then took five or six loaves.
Man does not live by bread alone. Tickets for movie screenings were also taken with a fight. Thanks to Abdrakhman Abdrashitovich, new cinemas appeared in the city. He was an extremely popular person. Venus loved to walk down the street with him. Everyone greeted with emphatic respect, almost bowing. Women involuntarily stared at the imposing man. But Venus was calm: she knew how her father loved her mother from the very moment when she, a young student, saw her for the first time.
- It was impossible not to love my mother. I literally prayed for her. And I always admired: how beautiful she is with us! It’s a pity I’m not like that ... She was worried that I was all in my studies: what is it? Everything teaches and teaches! If only personal happiness did not pass by. For a woman, this is the most important thing.
When I was already studying in Leningrad, my mother gave me her gabardine cut and astrakhan skin so that I could sew a winter outfit for myself. I bought boots. I wanted to look like a city. After all, what kind of outfits did we have in Bugulma? Felt boots and a downy scarf.
Venus was a happy girl and girl. She grew up in a wonderful family, the daughter of a famous person in the city, a capable student, a gold medalist, then a student at a prestigious university. And suddenly this cozy world collapsed. Fate did not test her in trifles, but overnight dealt a crushing blow.
At the institute, she was told that she urgently needed to fly home: her mother was seriously ill. When I arrived, I found out the truth. Mom, along with schoolchildren and a pioneer leader, went on an excursion to the neighboring city of Leninogorsk to the Romashkinskoye oil field. The children frolic in the meadow, and the teachers walked along the roadside. They probably never understood what happened to them. They didn’t see that crazy truck that was rushing along without looking into the road. The drunk driver, it turns out, had already hit the cyclist and continued to reap a terrible harvest. Amina Saifullovna died immediately, the young counselor lived for another quarter of an hour ...
They were orphaned - a man and girls, the youngest of which was only three years old. Over time, the father married, but never recovered from the loss. Concussion wounds made themselves felt, weakened, and in 1977 he passed away without resisting his departure. Most recently, I read how General Lanskoy, after the death of Natalya Nikolaevna, all 14 years that he was destined to live without her, said with quiet joy, going to sleep: "One day even closer to my dear Natasha." A story that repeats itself over and over again. After all, only in fairy tales it happens: "They lived a long time and died on the same day."
At the institute, Venus was helped at least to some extent to cope with grief, they did not leave her alone, they took her to the movies. She did it. I went headlong into my studies - the most radical medicine, and studied only "excellently". Practice took place in Moscow at the Institute of Forensic Science. She had a rare specialty for those times - scientific and technical photography. In the future, she will teach this subject to biologists, geologists, journalists, criminologists.
After the institute, she began working at the famous TsAGI in the city of Zhukovsky near Moscow. Young specialist entrusted with a responsible task - the organization of the laboratory. She carried out unique for that time photographic research in wind tunnels. She got into an environment that struck her imagination. People of science - and, moreover, developed in the humanitarian sense, reading a lot, athletic and witty. Mom would be happy for her daughter: one of the best representatives of this glorious tribe of young scientists (then the girls dreamed not of bankers, but of scientists) became her husband. Loving science, Venera enters the graduate school of the All-Union Research Film and Photo Institute and defends her Ph.D. thesis. Mom would be happy for the rest of her daughters. All graduated with honors from higher educational institutions, all of them successfully developed family life. Rose was awarded the badge "Honorary Railway Worker" and works in the Office of the Moscow railway. Rimma is a biologist, lives in Ufa, and the younger Zemfira, having graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of Moscow University, defended her Ph.D. thesis under the guidance of Robert Nigmatulin. Now he lives in England with his family.
Robert
On Robert's birthday, his grandfather Geniatulla Teregulov defended his doctoral dissertation. Generally symbolic. He took a stroller with his grandson and, making countless circles around the small Moscow courtyard, rehearsed the report. One day, yard boys ran up to him and asked an indignant question: "Uncle! Why are you telling him everything? He still doesn't understand anything." And this is just not a fact. There is a mystical feeling that he understood that it was difficult for grandfather to find a more grateful listener.
Strictly speaking, Geniatulla Nigmatullovich was not a grandfather, but an uncle to the future academician. But such a status was assigned to him in their family. When the father of Geniatulla died - in the past a soldier tsarist army Nigmatulla Teregulov, a seventeen-year-old youth, actually replaced him with seven younger brothers and sisters, including Iskander (Robert's future father). I learned early on to be independent. Back in 1901, Nigmatulla was going to send ten-year-old Geniatulla to study in Ufa. However, at the moment when the horses were already harnessed, a neighbor came and complained about his son, who was seconded in the same way several years ago to the same Ufa. The guy did not live up to expectations: he married a Russian, and even converted to the Orthodox faith. The former soldier, after listening to this story, silently began to unharness his horses. Parting boy with native village Kargaly was postponed for a whole year.
Many years later, Robert Iskanderovich will comment on this memorable episode: “Having received an education, my grandfather became non-religious. My parents, who gave me a European name, and I, too, are non-religious people. their faith. Yes, and Russian people converted to Catholicism and Islam, and people from the West or the East became Orthodox or Muslims. However, this is different. The change of religion cannot be condemned if it is the result of deep and painful reflections ... "
Incidentally, a similar dilemma has already taken place in the distant past. Their Tatar ancestors, who lived in the city of Temnikov (now the territory of Mordovia), faithfully served the Russian state even in the time of Ivan III. For which they were granted the title of nobility (moreover, they remained Muslims and retained their language). However, Peter I did not like this. The tsar set a strict condition: either you accept Orthodoxy, or you lose your nobility and estates. The ancestors of the Karamzins, Aksakovs, Kutuzovs chose the first (their descendants became the pride of Russia). The Akchurins, Tenishevs, Enikeevs, Teregulovs and others refused to change their faith and turned into a peasant class. Later, the wise Catherine II returned the nobility (but not property!). More than 200 years ago, the Teregulovs went to Bashkiria, where they bought land. Here is such history together with geography.
Geniatulla Teregulov graduated from the madrasah, became a teacher, then the director of the Kargaly school, but at the age of thirty-one he made a sharp turn - he entered the medical faculty of Moscow University. How many are able to change their lives so drastically, not at a young age? Moreover, the student had a family - a wife and two children. But everything he undertook, he brought to perfection. Subsequently, he became a professor, founded the Bashkir Medical Institute (now a university) in 1931. First of all, thanks to this amazing person, their family became famous even before the grandson Robert Nigmatulin glorified him all over the world. Having lived for 96 years, he founded an entire medical dynasty. Among his close and distant relatives, it seems, there is everything: a cardiologist, a radiologist, a therapist, a psychiatrist, a physiologist, a biochemist, etc. Associate professors, professors, academician. worthy heirs.
And another bright personality is Robert Iskanderovich's maternal grandfather. Teacher-educator Lutfulla Abdulgazizov, who wrote the first Russian language textbook for Bashkir and Tatar schools. For several years he was the director of one of the largest then in Bashkiria, the Sermenev school. And he left such a deep impression that until now his portrait meets all those who enter this school. Then Lutfulla directed in Troitsk. When in 1913, at the age of 48, he died of tuberculosis, the whole city buried him, local merchants (and smart merchants always revered learning) collected a fairly significant amount and put it in the bank so that the Abdulgazizov family lived on interest. But what money is there, what interest? - soon came the first World War. And everything swirled in her whirlwind ...
In the fate of Robert Nigmatulin, in the very fact of his birth, one fabulously beautiful place played a special role ("The most dear to me is the warm mountain of Yangan-Tau"). There, Robert's parents, Iskander Nigmatulin (who took the name of his real father, that same peasant soldier Nigmatulla) and nurse Galiya Gazizova, met. She was invited to work at the local sanatorium by Geniatulla Teregulov, who began studying the natural springs of Yangan-Tau from the point of view of their medicinal properties. There, in 1939, Iskander and Galiya got married. Three of their sons - Robert, Bulat and Rais - spent more than one summer there. By the way, Robert will continue the work of his grandfather: together with Bashkir geologists, he will study the physical nature of the famous sources.
About parents. Mom, Galiya Gazizova, despite her age, is full of interest in life. To raise such sons is a great happiness. All of them became professors, doctors of sciences. Bulat created an institute and became one of the leaders of the Russian nuclear power industry. Rais is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Father, Iskander Nigmatullin died in 1980, when his sons were already adults, and the eldest son Robert was already a professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
At the age of eighteen, Iskander Nigmatulin left the village of Kargaly for Moscow, where he entered the Bauman Moscow State Technical University. Subsequently, the writer Musa Gali, who was friends with him, liked to recall a phrase once said to him by Iskander Nigmatullovich: "Our distant ancestors entered Moscow with a saber, and we are now entering with the help of science - and that's good." Fought. In 1943, his captain Soviet army, recalled from the front in connection with the development of new types of weapons. In the 50s he became a doctor of science, professor, teacher at the Alma Mater. A well-known specialist in the field of nuclear energy.
And for all that, he was a humble person. He had already been a professor for four years, and the family still lived in a communal apartment on Znamenka, where Robert was born. So the area of the Moscow Arbat is native to him. The father found time to take care of the children. I constantly asked them simple mental exercises, then the time came for more complex arithmetic problems ...
It is not surprising that Robert Nigmatulin chose Bauman Moscow State Technical University after school. I heard from my father what it is the highest level university He brilliantly graduated from the power engineering faculty of this school (now Technical University) and the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Studied in both educational institutions simultaneously. His main teachers were Professor Vladimir Vasilyevich Uvarov at Moscow Higher Technical School and Academician Khalil Akhmedovich Rakhmatullin at Moscow State University. At 31, Robert Nigmatulin became a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, the youngest professor at Moscow State University. In 1991, he will be elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences, and he will become one of the youngest academicians in the country. Solid records. On paper, everything is easy and fast. Life is work, work and more work. And, of course, problems, difficulties. Everything that would be much more difficult to deal with if there were no reliable harbor - the family.
Together
Going through the photographs, Venera Abdrakhmanovna sighs: it is high time to sort them out, put the family photo library in order, but there is always not enough time. The pictures are mostly amateur. Here is her first joint voyage at sea with her husband. Here they are on a campaign: in their youth they were fond of traveling along the Bashkir rivers in kayaks. Here, surrounded by the participants of some international symposium. When possible, they always travel together. And she, with the diligence of an excellent student, attends his reports and lectures at several leading universities in the world.
Today their permanent place of residence is Ufa. Since 1995, Nigmatulin has been the President of the Academy of Sciences of Bashkortostan. They had to spend several years in the USA, where the scientist gave lectures, led research on the applications of the mechanics of multiphase systems in nuclear power. One of his colleagues, Sanjoy Benerji, a professor at the University of California, gave the following review: "I would classify Professor Nigmatulin as one of the four or five best scientists in the world. He has more mathematical power than anyone ... He reigns supreme in the mechanics of multiphase media!"
And even earlier, Robert Iskanderovich, at the invitation of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, left for Tyumen for seven whole years, where, with a group of like-minded people and students, he created an academic institute and a department at the university. Saying goodbye to the well-established Moscow life, the family went with him. “They called me a Decembrist,” laughs Venera Abdrakhmanovna. There is a concept - the real wife of a writer (or artist). Almost no one talks about the wives of scientists. Although their dedication is no less. Having fifteen years of experience in scientific and pedagogical work at NIKFI and Moscow State University, Venera Abdrakhmanovna continues to work as an assistant professor at the University of Tyumen, creates and leads a well-equipped Center for educational and scientific photography and cinematography.
A scientist is a rather mysterious figure for the general public. Only a few can penetrate the essence of what he does. Perhaps, as a compensation, an image of an absent-minded, out of this world, eccentric in a baggy suit has formed in popular culture. Nigmatulin refutes this cliché with one of his appearances. Fit, secular, elegant. "Does your wife buy ties for you?" - I ask a very feminine question. "Why?" he smiles restrainedly. "I can choose myself." Brilliant in English, he is organic in any, the most refined society. Man of the world. That does not prevent to remain devoted to the native land.
Alas, the topic of patriotism is trivialized in our country. Again, from the category of the cliché "I love my homeland!": hugging a birch tree seen in a foreign land and saddening sweetly to the sounds of an accordion. Arguments between ardent Westerners and hard-nosed soil activists come to a standstill. Because they argue about external forms. They do not seek depth. Discussions of the problems of ethnic groups also often sin with superficiality and radicalism. The mathematician approaches this conflict-fraught topic from the position of a statesman (don't forget: he is a member of the State Duma, after all):
- Approximately 70 percent of Tatars live outside of Tatarstan. Approximately a third of the Bashkirs live outside of Bashkortostan. Support for the teaching of Bashkir, Tatar and other languages will increase the trust of the peoples of our country in each other, improve general atmosphere. This task should become nationwide. On the other hand, one must be aware that the deliberate displacement of the spirit of the Russian people, which is the core ethnic group of the country, will lead to consequences that are devastating for everyone. We should, without losing our national identity, feel like a single multilingual and multiethnic people of Russia.
Nigmatulin himself speaks both Tatar and Bashkir, feels himself both a Tatar and a Bashkir. And Russian. And he speaks openly about it. Many perceive it this way. He was elected a delegate to the Kurultai of the Bashkirs, the Congress of Tatars, the Russian Council and the Assembly of the Peoples of Bashkortostan. He performed everywhere and was the center of attention everywhere.
Academician Nigmatullin considers the topic from the position of an ordinary citizen, the father of the family:
- I remember when many were overwhelmed by the euphoria of the struggle for freedom, one of my Tatar acquaintances said: we must force the Russians in Tatarstan to learn the Tatar language. So that all life there was in the Tatar language. I then offered to teach him first mother tongue his wife and children, and then to advocate for the education of Russians. It is necessary, leaving aside political declarations, to start with your own family, if you want to preserve your native language ...
All this is not a declaration. The Nigmatulin family speaks Tatar. They are great for kids too. But becoming president of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Robert Iskanderovich told his daughter that she should own and Bashkir language, especially since Bashkir is very close to Tatar and differs mainly phonetically and in some grammatical features. Karima, fluent in English and French, quickly mastered the Bashkir language. Last year, she gave a half-hour live radio interview in Bashkir…
Her successes do not end there. In 2001, she placed fourth at the World Physics Olympiad. She studies at the university with a degree in mathematical economics. Her older brother Tagir, who graduated from the Mekhmat of Moscow State University, already has degree. He led difficult experimental studies in hydrodynamics disperse systems. The famous "nature rests on children" is in no way applicable to the young growth of the Nigmatulin family. In this unique genus, nature does not relax in any generation.
