Tsukanova, Galina Ivanovna

Tsukanova (Tikhomirova) Galina Ivanovna was born on February 26, 1942 in the village of Manuylovo, Kalinin Region . In 1955, after the death of her mother, she moved to Leningrad, where in 1959 she graduated from school No. 80 and entered the Leningrad Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics . Tsukanova G.I. graduated from LITMO in 1965 with a degree in Optical Instruments, receiving a diploma with honors. During her studies at the institute, she was a Lenin scholarship holder. In 1968, after graduating from graduate school, she was enlisted as an engineer in the department of optical-mechanical devices. In 1969 she defended a dissertation for the degree of candidate of technical sciences on the topic "Research and calculation of astronomical aspherical lenses with correction of field aberrations", supervisor - Churilovsky V.N. , Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor.

Tsukanova G.I. For many years she worked at LITMO at the Department of Theory of Optical Instruments under the guidance of Professor M. Rusinov : NICH engineer (1968-70), NICH senior researcher (1970-72), associate professor of the Theory of Optical Instruments department (since 1972; since 1996, the Department of Applied and Computer Optics).

She made a significant contribution to the development of the Vega international space project , leading the creative team of LITMO employees, who was tasked with creating the optical equipment of the spacecraft. For participation in the project was awarded the USSR State Prize (1986). Using the equipment created by the creative team under the direction of Galina Ivanovna, unique pictures of Halley's comet were created.

The author of the creation (together with Demidov N.V.) of a mirror-lens lens (Based on the Richter-Slefogt scheme with a special near-focal two-lens positive corrector, from a meniscus negative, rotated concavity to the space of objects, and a biconvex positive lens).

Father - Tikhomirov Ivan Arsenievich (1907 - 1981), lived and worked as a mechanic in the village. Manuylovo, Kalinin region, as an ordinary participated in the Great Patriotic War.

Mother - Babaeva Alexandra Vasilievna (1903 - 1955), lived and worked as a store director in the village. Manuylovo, Kalinin region.

Spouse - Tsukanov Anatoly Anatolyevich (1938 - 2004), clan in the city of Leningrad in the family of the captain-lieutenant, in 1955 he entered the military school named after Makarova in Sevastopol, in 1958 transferred to the Leningrad Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics and graduated in 1963 with a degree in Instruments of Precision Mechanics. In 1975 he defended his thesis (Ph.D.). In 1981, Tsukanov A.A. awarded the academic title of Associate Professor in the Department of Optical Instruments. From 1978 to 2004 - Associate Professor of the Theory of Optical Systems (Applied and Computer Optics). Tsukanov A.A. - A well-known specialist in the field of high-speed filming and optical instruments.

Daughter - Olga Tsukanova (born in 1980) - doctor of economic sciences, professor of the department. Economics and Strategic Management NRU ITMO, academic title - Associate Professor. Graduated from St. Petersburg State Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics (TU) in 2002 with a degree in Information Systems in Economics.

The research work is devoted to the development of mirror and mirror-lens systems for space research. He is the author of more than 80 scientific papers, of which 17 are copyright certificates for inventions and 2 patents.

Some works:

• Tsukanova G.I., Bakholdin A.V. / Special sections of applied optics. - Teaching aid.
• Tsukanova G.I., Karpova G.V., Bagdasarova O.V. / Applied optics. Part 1, 2. Training manual. - 2013
• Bakholdin A.V., Romanova G.E., Tsukanova G.I. / Theory and design methods of optical systems. Part I. - 2011. - 104 p.

• Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1986)
• Medal of S.P. Korolev (1985) ^{[ clarify ]}
• Medal “In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg” (2004)

• Tsukanova Galina Ivanovna , Virtual Museum of NRU ITMO, 2015
• Demidov N.V., Tsukanova G.I. / Mirror-lens lens
• V. Karpov - Highlights, Newspaper "Personnel Instrument Making" No. 38 (1315), December 30, 1986
• ITMO: Years and People: Part One / Comp. M.I. Poteyev. St. Petersburg, 2000 .-- 284 p.
• Rusinov / under the general. ed. prof. M.I. Poteeva. - St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg State University ITMO, 2009 .-- 168 p. - Series "ITMO University: Years and People"