Yakovlev, Vsevolod Fedorovich (scientist)

Born in a fisherman's family, grew up in the village of Kokkorevo on Lake Ladoga. After graduation, he entered the Vologda College of People's Commissariat of Railways. After graduating from college in 1942, he worked at the station of Nyandoma, later was part of the special forces of the Leningrad Front, engaged in the restoration of railways, was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad." After the war, he worked on the October Railway, where he quickly became deputy chief of the Vyborg distance track. In 1949 he entered the Leningrad Institute of Railway Engineers with a degree in Railway Construction. After graduating from the institute, he continued his studies in graduate school, and in 1955 he defended his thesis on the subject “Some questions of the static calculation of the elements of railroad switches” (supervisor S.V. Amelin). Having defended his dissertation, he stayed at LIIZhT, developed and began to teach the course “Construction of the railway track”, and later taught the disciplines such as “Track Management”, “Roads”, “Fundamentals of Automation”, etc.

In addition to teaching, he devoted considerable attention to scientific work: in the late 1950s, he dealt with the interaction of the track and rolling stock at high axial loads, as a result of which a method was developed for predicting the life of the wheels of rolling stock and railway rails. He created a series of works devoted to the problem of contact stresses of a wheel and a rail. According to the leading specialist of VNIIZHT, Professor V. M. Verigo, Yakovlev’s research should be considered “the most important and fundamentally new work in the field of studying contact problems of elasticity theory in relation to railway rails” ^[2] .

Since 1964 (together with Professor M.P. Smirnov) he led the team of engineers working on the problem of developing special rail tracks for superheavy loads at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. For the successful solution of this problem in 1972, the LIIZhT team was awarded the commemorative medal of the USSR Academy of Sciences "To commemorate the world's first manned spacewalk", and Yakovlev himself was awarded the title "Honorary Builder of Baikonur" (1968).

In 1965 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the theme "Study of the forces of interaction, deformation and stress in the contact zone of railway wheels and rails." Less than a year after the defense, he received the title of professor of the department "Railway Track", became one of the organizers of the department "Industrial Transport and Automation of Production Processes", and in 1969-1995 he was its head. In 1970-1971 he taught at the University of Havana (Cuba).

The creator of the scientific school on the problem "Design Theory and the Creation of Special Track Designs and Rolling Stock for Extra Heavy Axial Loads". Prepared 34 candidates and 7 doctors of sciences. “School of V.F. Yakovlev” conducted work in 6 main areas: 1) track construction for super-heavy axial loads (the above-described work in Baikonur); 2) technological routes of metallurgical plants, opencasts and quarries (ways were developed for the movement of unique cast iron trucks, which made it possible to solve the problem of delivering freshly cast iron from a metallurgical enterprise to a machine-building); 3) turnouts (their modernization was carried out); 4) special rolling stock (wagon two- and three-axle bogies with self-aligning axles were proposed and tested, which provided better conditions for fitting and increased wheel service life); 5) the theory of track calculation (a computer laboratory was created, which allowed to solve many problems on the dynamics of the interaction of the track and rolling stock) and 6) the preparation of normative and technical documentation.

Winner of the titles “Honored Worker and Techniques of the RSFSR” (1985), “Honorary Railway Worker” (1963), “Honorary Worker of Transport of Russia”. In 1991, he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Transport of Russia, in 1994 - an honorary professor at St. Petersburg State University of Railway Engineering (former LIIZhT), was a member of the advisory council of the Higher Attestation Commission of the USSR, deputy chairman of the Scientific and Methodological Council of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education of the USSR, specializing in " Industrial transport. ” He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and nine medals ^[3] .

Research interests: interaction of the railway track and rolling stock; theory of designing and creating special track structures for superheavy axial loads; investigation of the stress-strain state of rails; contact stresses in rails; study of turnouts; modeling of the processes of interaction between track and rolling stock; railway track of industrial enterprises. The author of 277 scientific papers, 16 textbooks and 6 monographs, 33 patents and copyright certificates.

• Yakovlev V.F., Inyutin I.S. Measurement of stresses of machine parts. - L. M.: Mashgiz, 1960.
• Frishman. M. A., Belykh K. D., Yakovlev V. F., Konanov A. I. Railway tracks of metallurgical plants. M .: Metallurgy, 1975.
• Automation and automation in construction and track facilities / V.F. Yakovlev, N.M. Bulash, V.V. Gnilomedov and others; Ed. V.F. Yakovleva.- M .: Transport, 1990.
• Way and track facilities of industrial railways / V. F. Yakovlev, B. A. Evdokimov, V. E. Parunakyan, A. N. Pertsev; Ed. V.F. Yakovleva.- M .: Transport, 1990.

• Professor V.F. Yakovlev. The path of the scientist. Selected Works. Scientific Editor Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences V. A. Sidyakov. M .: Publishing house "Trassa", 2005.

• Petersburg State University of Railway Engineering