14 Facts About Anatoly Dorodnitsyn

Anatoly Dorodnitsyn was the third child in the family, with two older sisters.

Anatoly Dorodnitsyn studied in a 7-grade school in the nearby village of Berezan'.

The family moved to Grozny in North Caucasus, the capital of the Chechen region, in 1925, where Anatoly Dorodnitsyn graduated from high school in 1927.

Anatoly Dorodnitsyn immediately applied to, and was enrolled in, the Grozny Oil Technical School, which was one of the first higher educational institutions teaching hydrocarbon-related subjects in Russia.

Anatoly Dorodnitsyn devoted all his evenings after work to study mathematics; this helped radically improve his mathematical skills.

Anatoly Dorodnitsyn completed his postgraduate studies at the Leningrad Main Geophysical Observatory from 1936 to 1938 under the supervision of Prof.

In 1939, Anatoly Dorodnitsyn defended his thesis at Leningrad State University.

Anatoly Dorodnitsyn received his PhD and was promoted to the position of Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Dynamic Meteorology of the Leningrad Main Geophysical Observatory.

In 1940, Anatoly Dorodnitsyn entered a doctoral program led by academician Nikolai Yevgrafovich Kochin at the Institute of Mechanics of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

In 1941 Anatoly Dorodnitsyn was dispatched to TsAGI, Russia's leading aircraft and aerospace research organization and aircraft design center, located in Zhukovsky on the outskirts of Moscow.

Anatoly Dorodnitsyn worked in TsAGI until 1961 and grew from department head to sector director and laboratory scientific head.

Anatoly Dorodnitsyn worked in the aviation division, which was established by TsAGI's head Ivan Fedorovich Petrov, together with the outstanding Soviet scientists Mstislav Keldysh, Vladimir Vetchinkin, Sergey Khristianovich, Ivan Ostoslavskii, Georgii Svishchev and Sergei Shishkin.

Anatoly Dorodnitsyn defended his doctoral thesis on the boundary layer in a compressible gas and received a doctoral degree in technical sciences.

Anatoly Dorodnitsyn worked part time at the Leningrad branch of the Steklov Mathematical Institute as a leading research fellow and later as a department head.