VAKULOVSKY SERGEY M.
Born August 26, 1934 in the Leonovo village, Istra district of Moscow region. In 1958, after studying at the Radio Engineering Faculty of the Moscow Aviation Institute named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze he has been appointed to employ at the Institute of Applied Geophysics, USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1959 he was transferred to a division of the Applied Geophysics Insitute in Obninsk. He worked as an engineer, senior engineer, junior staff scientist In Obninsk branch of the Institute of Applied Geophysics, USSR Academy of Sciences - Institute of Experimental Meteorology (Branch of the Institute of Applied Geophysics). In 1969 he defended PhD thesis on "Method for the determination of strontium-90 in the small amount samples of sea water and strontium-90 stocks research in the Caspian Sea" at the Institute of Applied Geophysics, specialty - "Geophysics".
In 1970, he was elected to the post of senior scientist. In 1974 he was appointed to the post of the Department of Nuclear Geophysics head. During the period of 1958 to 1985 took part in the flight, sea, river expeditions as chief of unit, head of the expedition, the scientific head of the expedition.
April 28, 1986 after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident went to Kiev with a group of the department’s specialists for radiological detection in the territories affected by the accident.
In June 1986, he was appointed Science Deputy Director of the Experimental Meteorology Institute and the Institute’s Expedition Head. The task of the expedition was to obtain information about radioactive contamination in Chernobyl NPP zone and adjacent areas of the Ukrainian SSR, the Byelorussian SSR and the Russian SFSR. The extensive experimental data obtained in expeditions were exposed to the careful analysis and generalization in publications in the leading national and foreign scientific magazines.
In 2003 he defended doctoral thesis on "Contamination of water bodies on the territory of the USSR and Russia in 1967-2000" at the Institute of Global Climate and Ecology of Roshydromet and Russian Academy of Sciences, specialty - "Geo-ecology." Much attention he paid to the Institute’s scientific staff training.
4 candidate and 3 doctoral thesis were prepared and succesfully defended under his leadership. In 2011, he was awarded the degree of professor.
In 2006, due to the State «Scientific Development and Production Center «Typhoon» reorganization he was appointed the Deputy Director of the State Institute of monitoring problems of aforecited Center. In 2009 he was transferred to the Chief Scientist of the Institute post.
During his work, he published in co-authorship more than 200 scientific articles and reports in the scientific Russian and international conferences, 3 monographs.
He is co-author of the European part of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine contamination Atlas, The modern and expected consequences of the Chernobyl accident in affected territories of Russia and Belarus Atlas. The participant of recovery from the Chernobyl NPP accident.
He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, the Order of Courage, 5 medals, and holds the title of "Distinguished Meteorologist of the Russian Federation."
List of the most significant publications
1. Vakulovsky S.M., Silantiev A.N. Radiometric device for determining the 90Sr content in sea water. Nuclear Instruments and methods 1969, v.68, p. 42-44.
2. Vakulovsky S.M., Katrich I.Yu., Krasnopevtsev Yu.V., Nikitin A.I., Tertyshnik E.G. et al. On contamination of the Atlantic Ocean and its seas by radioactive productions. Oceanology, 1981, Vol. 21, Issue 2, pp.257-265.
3. Vakulovsky S.M., Nikitin A.I., Chumichev V.B. About the Arctic seas contamination by radioactive waste of the Western European radiochemical plants. Atomic energy, 1985, Vol.58, issue 6, рp.445-449.
4. Izrael Yu.A., Petrov V.N., Avdyushin S.I., Gasilina N.K., Rovinsky F.Ya., Vetrov V.A., Vakulovsky S.M. The natural environment contamination in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident area. Meteorology and Hydrology, 1987, No 2, рp.5-18.
5. Edited by Izrael Yu.A. Authors: Izrael Yu.A., Vakulovsky S.M., Vetrov V.A. et al. Chernobyl: Natural environments contamination. Leningrad, Hydrometeoizdat, 1990, 296 pp.
6.Vakulovsky S.M., Nikitin A.I., Chumichev V.B., et a. Cesium-137 and strontium-90 contamination of water bodies in the areas affected by releases from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident: An overview. Journal of Environmental, Radioactivity, 1994, vol.23, pp.103-122.
7.Vakulovsky S.M., Kryshev I.I., Nikitin A.I., Savitsky Yu.V., Malyshev S.U. and Tertyshnik E.G. Radioactive contamination of the Yenisey River. J.Environ.Rad., 1995, vol.29, №3, рp.225-236.
8.Vakulovsky S.M. and Chumichev V.B. Radioactive contamination of the Caspian Sea. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 1998, vol.75, Nos. 1-4, pр.61-64
9. Edited by Izrael Yu.A. Authors: Vakulovsky S.M., Izrael Yu.A., Imshennik E.V. et al. The European part of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine contamination atlas. Moscow, Roskartografia, 1998, 142 p.
10. Sivintsev Yu.V.,. Vakulovsky S.M. Vasilev A.P. et al. Man-made radionuclides in the seas surrounding Russia. 2005, Moscow, IZDAT, 624 р.
11. Soyfer V.N., Goryachev V.A., Vakulovsky S.M., Katrich I.Yu. Tritium research of natural waters in Russia. GEOS, Moscow, 2008, 286 р.
12. Izrael Yu.A., Bolotneva L.I., Vakulovsky S.M., Nikiforov M.V. Aviation gamma spectrometry and its application possibilities. Meteorology and Hydrology, 2014, No8, pp.5-14.
