In 1973, Anatoly Maslov defended his Ph.D. thesis "Stability of a compressible boundary layer over a cooled surface"; in 1988, he defended his doctoral dissertation "The onset of turbulence in supersonic boundary layers".[1] In the same year, the scientist became the head of Laboratory No.13 of Physical Problems of Control of Gas-Dynamic Flows at the Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.[2] Thanks to the skills of experimental work and numerical simulation in supersonic aerodynamics, as well as experience in large aerodynamic installations, he significantly intensified the scientific activity of the laboratory.[2]
On 28 June 2022, Anatoly Maslov was arrested on suspicion of state treason. He was taken by plane to Moscow and placed in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. A few days later, another Novosibirsk scientist, Dmitry Kolker was also arrested on suspicion of state treason.[3] The trial has been registered with the St. Petersburg City Court on May 12, 2023, in a "top secret" case according to the court’s press office.[4] On 21 May 2024, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison.[5]