Mathematics, scientific and technical progress and national idea. On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Academician G.I. Marchuk

Guriy Ivanovich Marchuk, an outstanding Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of computational mathematics, atmospheric physics and geophysics, and an organizer of science. His creative legacy includes more than 20 monographs and 600 scientific articles on computational mathematics, atmospheric and ocean physics, nuclear power engineering, immunology and other areas of science. He created and headed the Mathematical Department at the Physics and Power Engineering Institute (Obninsk), the Computing Center of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, and the Institute of Computational Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, which became world-class scientific schools. In 1975, G.I. Marchuk succeeded M.A. Lavrentiev as Chairman of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences and made a significant contribution to the creation of the “Siberia” program.

In 1980, G.I. Marchuk was appointed Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Science and Technology with the rank of Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, and in 1986 he was elected President of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In this position, he strengthened the ties between academic structures and industrial enterprises and ministries, which significantly increased the role of science in the implementation of state programs. However, the dramatic events of the early 1990s led to the reorganization of the USSR Academy of Sciences into the Russian Academy of Sciences, which prompted G.I. Marchuk to deliver a speech at the General Meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences in December 1991, in which, in the presence of B.N. Yeltsin, he predicted the tragic consequences of radical democratization, while expressing faith in the intellectual power of Russian science.