Shimanskii, Iulian

Shimanskii, Iulian Aleksandrovich 

Born Dec. 5 (17), 1883, in Tashkent; died Apr. 11, 1962, in Leningrad. Soviet specialist in shipbuilding. Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1953; corresponding member, 1933).

Shimanskii graduated from the Naval Engineering School in 1905 and the Naval Academy in St. Petersburg in 1910. After working at the Baltiiskii Plant from 1910 to 1912, he lectured at the Naval School in Kronstadt from 1912 to 1916 and at the Naval Academy from 1920 to 1934. He was named a professor in 1938 and was appointed head of the subdepartment of structural mechanics at the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute in 1945. Beginning in 1925, Shimanskii was also a staff member of a scientific research institute of the shipbuilding industry.

Shimanskii’s principal works dealt with the theory and practice of shipbuilding and with the development of underwater vehicles. Shimanskii received the State Prize of the USSR in 1941 and was awarded the Order of Lenin, three other orders, and various medals.

WORKS

Stroitel’naia mekhanika podvodnykh lodok. Leningrad, 1948.
Proektirovanie preryvistykh sviazei sudovogo korpusa. Leningrad, 1949.
Dinamicheskii raschet sudovykh konstmktsii, 3rd ed. Leningrad, 1963.

REFERENCES

Iu. A. Shimanskii. (AN SSSR: Malerialy k bibliografii uchenykh SSSR: Seriia tekhnicheskikh nauk: Mekhanika, fasc. 8.) Moscow, 1958.
Zhizn’, otdannaia sudostroeniiu. Leningrad, 1973.