Znamensky Mikhail Alexandrovich Biography

For 28 years, he headed the Limnological Institute of the SB RAS, until the last day he was the main researcher, remained a tireless generator of ideas, an energetic and enthusiastic person. Mikhail Alexandrovich was a specialist in the field of bioorganic chemistry, physico-chemical and molecular biology. Mikhail Grachev initiated the development of the Federal Law “On the Protection of Lake Baikal” and actively participated in the formation of his concept in the year Mikhail Alexandrovich graduated from the Moscow State University named after Lomonosov with a degree in chemistry.

In the year he moved to Novosibirsk, where for nineteen years he worked at the Institute of Organic Chemistry named after N. from a year headed the laboratory of ultramicrobiochemistry of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry. From the memoirs of a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Olga Lavrik: “Mikhail Alexandrovich, of course, then just Misha Grachev, appeared in the laboratory of Dmitry Georgievich Knorre with a suitcase, which was filled with a variety of chemical dishes.

It must be assumed that he brought her from Moscow. The shortage of this was large, and such the appearance of a new employee was met with enthusiasm. He held on very confidently and from the very beginning began to show great interest in all the projects that then developed in the laboratory of Dmitry Georgievich. Misha filled the team with additional energy, which, I must say, already boiled and boiled.

Very talented people, scientific stars worked in the laboratory. Now it is clear that this is not an exaggeration, and things were exactly exactly that. The great merit of Dmitry Georgievich was that he was able to gather around him a wonderful team of young scientists, such as Leo Sandakhiev, Stanislav Vasilenko, Alexander Girshovich, Viktor Korzhov, then Ernst Malygin joined them.

And in this brilliant constellation, Mikhail Alexandrovich appeared. After a series of defenses of doctoral dissertations in the department in the beginning of the 10s, Knorrar's petition for the creation of a new institution of bioorganic chemistry on the basis of the biochemistry department received full support. A new page of our history was opened. In the beginning of the 10ths, when the country began to open for international contacts, a number of foreign laboratories collaborated with the laboratory of Mikhail Alexandrovich.

In cooperation with them, a number of remarkable works on the study of the RNA polymeraz using a Russian original approach were published in very prestigious magazines. It is amazing, the structural organization of the RNA polymerase, described using the affinity modification by Grachev and his employees, and the main features of the mechanism were subsequently brilliantly confirmed using the method of X-ray analysis of this enzyme carried out already in US laboratories.

” In the year, as part of a group of researchers, Grachev was sent to the Siberian branch of the Academy of Sciences in Irkutsk to develop a new scientific field at the Limnological Institute and appointed its director. From the first days of the leadership, the institute Mikhail Alexandrovich perfectly understood that without modern scientific equipment of laboratories and modern approaches, in particular, molecular biological research methods, it is impossible to achieve great success.

It was a difficult time, the country fell apart, funding was completely absent. However, Grachev managed to equip the institute in the shortest possible time in the most advanced laboratory equipment. The modern high -precision methods of analysis introduced into practice were needed to solve many applied tasks of the institute. It was then that he had the idea to use Baikal water as a drinking one.

It is patented by the institute, and now this patent is successfully used by organizations engaged in a rosel of deep Baikal water. Petrozavodsk began the development of the hydroacoustic method of taking into account the Baikal omul as the main commercial species in the lake. In the year, the mass cake of seals was recorded on Lake Baikal. Under the leadership of Mikhail Grachev, the scientific team of the institute was actively involved in the search for reasons.

It was proved that epizootics are caused by the previously not encountered variant of the carnivorous plague virus, and the possibility of infecting seals with a mormillivirus was proved for the first time in the world. With the advent of Mikhail Alexandrovich, international ties expanded, scientists from the advanced scientific centers of various countries of the world specializing in various areas of science were involved in the study of Baikal.

On the initiative and with the active participation of Mikhail Alexandrovich, the Baikal International Center for Ecological Research was created in the year.

About international expeditions were held in which foreign scientists from 36 countries worked. Thanks to the effective management of Grachev, the Limnological Institute of the SB RAS became a modern multidisciplinary scientific institution. Under his leadership, the active and successful use of molecular biology methods began to study problems associated with the origin and evolution of the Baikal endemic.Dating the events of species of various groups of organisms of Baikal was performed.

For the first time, gas hydrates were opened in the bottom deposits for freshwater pools, and the oil and gas storage of the sedimentary thickness of Lake Baikal was evaluated. Grachev made a significant contribution to the organization and comprehensive support of the works carried out in the territory of Mongolia, the Arctic, Antarctica. In a newspaper article, it is impossible to list everything that was done by Mikhail Alexandrovich over the years of his scientific path.

He is the author and co -author of more scientific works, has 6 patents for inventions, he actively taught and supported young researchers, under his leadership more than 20 candidate and doctoral dissertations were protected. But a special place in his biography is occupied by activities related to the protection of Lake Baikal. Grachev initiated the development of the Federal Law “On the Protection of Lake Baikal” and actively participated in the formation of his concept.

The work was carried out from GO for a year, over 40 editions of the bill were prepared in 10 years. The multifaceted scientific and organizational activities of Mikhail Alexandrovich Grachev have repeatedly been awarded the highest assessments of the state and the scientific community. Among his awards, the USSR State Prize - for creating the world's first microcolon liquid chromatograph and its implementation in production, the A.

Grachev International Prize, was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of the Irkutsk Region. On the eve of the year, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation for great contribution to the development of science and many years of conscientious work, Mikhail Alexandrovich was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky. Talking about this amazing person, it would be unfair not to mention his faithful ally and wife Elena Valentinovna Likhoshvva.

They are together for more than forty years. Together we moved from Novosibirsk to Irkutsk. After a terrible accident that occurred in the year, Mikhail Grachev was chained to a wheelchair. His huge willpower and the constant participation of the wife allowed the scientist to continue active activity for many years, despite health problems. The history of the joint life of these two extraordinary personalities deserves special attention.

In one of his articles, which was called “looking into the fire”, Mikhail Alexandrovich, answering the question of how a fundamental science arose and what people who put their lives on the altar of this sphere of activity arose, wrote: “According to my observations that I have made for 50 years, the occupation of science does not depend on the political system, or on the well -being of the country, or on various reforms.

The number of talented young people who come to science remains constant. For this contingent, science is self -sufficient, it is the purpose of life, and not a means of obtaining consumer goods. Primitive people. The whole tribe is sleeping, but several people do not sleep, look into the fire of the fire. Around somewhere, predatory animals go, at any time enemies can fly.

These natural “owls” need tribes in order to warn about night dangers. They not only look into the fire, they also examine the starry sky and think about different matters, invent. That is how the embryos of modern astronomy and engineering arose, the planets were opened, the wheel was invented, and a little earlier a dollar boat-a pie that helped humanity overcome water barriers and settle through the entire globe.

” Mikhail Alexandrovich himself from a rare breed of such people - "looking into the fire." Grachev-February 22 with Ulan-Batorskaya, the village of Cracking and Church procedures will be held on February 23 with Angarskaya, farewell in Novosibirsk-February 25 from Arbuzova, 2a. The burial on the same day at the cemetery in the Akademgorodok. Read also.