Academician Osipov Street

Yuri Sergeyevich Osipov — Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, statesman and public figure.
Yu.S. Osipov is an outstanding specialist in mathematics and mechanics. The main research is devoted to the theory of control, differential equations and their numerous applications.

Y.S. Osipov was born on July 7, 1936 in Tobolsk. In 1954, Yuri Osipov graduated from Tobolsk Secondary School No. 13 with a gold medal. In 1959 he graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the Ural State University. His first job was as an engineer in a branch organization (1959−1961), then as a graduate student, assistant, associate professor at Ural University (1961−1969). In 1965 he defended his PhD thesis. In 1969 he was elected a senior researcher at the Sverdlovsk Branch of the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1970 — Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Ural Scientific Center of the Academy, IMM URO). In 1971 he defended his doctoral dissertation, in 1975 he received the title of professor. Since 1990 — Professor of Lomonosov Moscow State University, since 1991 — Head of the Department of Moscow State University, and since June 1993 — Director of the Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

He was the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (in 1996 he was elected for a second term, in 2001 for a third, in 2008 for a fourth term).

Yu.S. Osipov is the author of more than 150 works that have received wide recognition in our country and abroad. Directs major applied research.
Yuri Sergeyevich Osipov is a laureate of the Lenin Prize (1976), the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (1993), awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1978), the Order of Merit for the Fatherland of the III degree (1996), the Order of Merit for the Fatherland of the I degree — "for contribution to the development of domestic science and many years of conscientious work" (2006). He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, an honorary doctor of Bar-Ilan University (Israel), a member of the Washington Academy of Arts and Science, an honorary member of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, awarded a high international distinction and made a Knight of the White Cross of the World Confederation of Knights (Sydney), an honorary doctor of the University of Sant Jago (Chile), a member of the Moscow Mathematical Society, Honorary Professor of Moscow State University. For outstanding achievements in mathematics and physics, the scientist was awarded the Gold Medal named after L. Euler of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honorary Citizen of Tobolsk.

The idea of creating an academic scientific institution in Tobolsk belongs to academician Yu.S. Osipov, who headed the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1991 to 2013.

According to the order of Academician V.E. Sokolov, Director of the Severtsov Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology of Animals of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a biological station with a staff of 11 people was established in Tobolsk in June 1994 as part of a Comprehensive Radioecological Expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences at the Institute.
The first scientific unit in the structure of the station was the radioecology laboratory, which monitored the Techa — Iset — Tobol — Irtysh -Ob river system.
In May 2004, the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences decided to reorganize the Institute of Ecology and Evolution named after A.N. Severtsov by separating the Tobolsk Biological Station into an independent scientific institution with the rights of a legal entity. The building was located in the historical quarter of the mountainous part of Tobolsk.

In 2005, on the initiative of V.M. Rodin and with the support of Yu.S. A scientific library was created at the Osipov station. Today, the library’s collection of scientific literature has more than 40,000 copies of books and magazines.
In September 2010, the Museum of the History of the Development and Study of Siberia, located in the residential building of the estate of the researcher of the North A.A. Dunin-Gorkavich, began working as part of the station.
Later, in 2016, the structure of the station was replenished with a new scientific unit — the laboratory of Ethnoarchaeological research, headed by Candidate of Historical Sciences A.A. Adamov.

By the Resolution of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences in May 2011 The Tobolsk Biological Station was transferred to the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in November of the same year was renamed the Tobolsk Integrated Scientific Station of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (TKNS UrO RAS).

Currently, the station has eight laboratory buildings and five stationary observation points on the Tobol and Irtysh rivers. The full-time number of its employees as of January 1, 2019 was 91 people, including 18 candidates and 5 doctors of sciences.

The closest cooperation has been established with companies in the field of oil production, petrochemistry, energy, design institutes (SIBUR, Surgutneftegaz, RN-Uvatneftegaz, Energostroyproekt, etc.), thanks to which the volume of contractual work performed by the station’s staff has significantly increased.

The scientific staff of the station developed and implemented the first project of an ecological trail in Russia in the area of the construction of the ZapSibNeftekhim complex, located in close proximity to the industrial site, where production facilities of world technological level and scale are being created.

From the article by A.I. Tatarnikova. Tobolsk Integrated Scientific Station of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences: a quarter of a century of development.