Academician Vladimir Fedorovich Mitkevich (On the 150th Anniversary of the Birth)

Abstract

Vladimir Fedorovich Mitkevich (August 3,1872–January 6, 1951) is an electrical scientist, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929), Professor, participant in the preparation of the State Electrification Plan of Russia (GOELRO plan), Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1929), Stalin Prize (1943), Honored Worker of Science and Technology (1933), teacher, specialist in the field of electromagnetism, radio engineering, and electrothermy. The author of world-famous monographs: "Theory of Alternating Currents" (1931, 288 p.) "Physical Principles of Electrical Engineering" (1933, 459 p.), "Magnetic Flux and Its Transformations" (1946, 358 p.). He founded and for more than 35 years headed the Kalinin Leningrad Polytechnic Institute’s Department "Theoretical Principles of Electrical Engineering. He was also the founder of the scientific school of electrical engineers and electric power engineers, which continues its fruitful work still at present.