Bogdan Voitsekhovsky
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Bogdan Vyacheslavovich Voitsekhovsky (Russian: Богдан Вячеславович Войцеховский; 1922–1999) was a Soviet and Russian scientist, specialist in the field of hydraulic impulse technique, explosion physics, atmospheric electricity, employee of the Institute of Hydrodynamics.
Voitsekhovsky was born on 22 January 1922 in the village (selo) of Soroka, in modern Vinnytsia Oblast of Ukraine.[1][2]
By the time he graduated from secondary school in 1940 in Kiev, he was already working as a laboratory assistant at the industrial technical school.[3]
In 1940, Voitsekhovsky was drafted into the Red Army. At the outbreak of war, he received short training at the School of Communication and participated in the battles on the Karelian and 4th Ukrainian fronts.[3]
After demobilization, in 1947 he entered the Physical and Technical Faculty of Moscow State University. During his studies, the Faculty was transformed into the Moscow Mechanical Institute of Munitions/Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, from which he graduated in 1953.[3][1][2]
In 1951, the young specialist began working in scientific teams under the direction of Mikhail Lavrentyev.[3]
In 1954, he defended his Candidate's Dissertation.[3]
From 1956 to 1958, Voitsekhovsky headed the research laboratory of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, where he conducted research in the field of explosion physics.[3]
In 1958, the scientist joined the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In this year, he became the head of the Department of the Institute of Hydrodynamics.[1][2]
In 1959, he began teaching at Novosibirsk State University, where he headed the department of physics of fast dynamic processes (1962–1973).[3]
In 1961, in Novosibirsk, physicist defended his dictoral dissertation.[3]
A deputy of Novosibirsk Regional Council of People's Deputies (1962–1964).[2]
From 1965 to 1973, the scientist was the deputy director of the Institute of Hydrodynamics.[3][1][2]
In 1996, Voitsekhovsky moved in the United States, where his son lived at that time.[2][3]
He died on 21 August 1999 in Grafton, West Virginia.[1]
