Biography of Mikhail Zalikhanov

In the year he graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, and the Faculty of Engineering and Technical Faculty in the year, and the agricultural faculty of Kabardino-Balkarian State University in the year is all with honors. In years - a junior and senior researcher, head of the laboratory, deputy director of the highland geophysical institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the city of Nalchik.

He conducted fundamental studies of the snowball regime of a number of high -mountain regions of the country and the world, which are of great applied importance. Work dedicated to the problems of nature protection, detailed schemes for the creation of national natural and glacial parks in the climatological and balneological centers of the Caucasus found widespread use in the forecast and planning of the development of productive forces of alpine territories, comprehensive and rational development of natural resources.

Since the year, he led and took a personal part in large -scale applied nature, having a large national economic and defense significance. He conducted more than 30 scientific expeditions on the study of exogenous processes, high -mountain ecology, snow cover and avalanches in the inaccessible areas of the Caucasus, Carpathians and Pamirs. His research activity was highly appreciated by scientists and scientific community not only in our country, but also abroad.

Under his leadership for the North Caucasus region, an automated system of warning of spontaneous natural processes, such as hail, avalays, snowfalls, snow avalanches and sat down, was developed. Under his leadership, a serial production of a new generation of no analogues in the world of missiles and automatic launchers with computer management has been created and began, which gives high efficiency of influence on city processes.

A highly effective, universal silent grenade launcher, dual -purpose, which can also take shots under water, developed and passed tests in the Northern Fleet. Studies are successfully on the creation of electromagnetic weapons and air protection equipment and missiles from the detection of various types with locators. Under his scientific and organizational leadership, the development of methods and means of active influences, widely used in our country, and which in recent years have been the subject of wide exports to a number of countries.

In years-General Director of the State Highland Research Center for Aviation Technology and Weapons. Under his leadership, unique methods and means of active influences were developed, special double-purpose aviation-rack technologies based on new physical principles. Since the year, he is the scientific director of the center. The author of more scientific works, including 34 inventions and 13 monographs.

He is the founder of the scientific school on the study of avalanches, mudflows, the development of methods for combating their harmful effects. In the year he created and headed the Department of Geophysics and Ecology at Kabardino-Balkarian State University.

Among his students are more than 30 doctors and candidates of sciences are famous scientists of Russia and the CIS countries. Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science, a member of the State Duma Committee of the Russian Federation on Ecology and Science and High Technology awarded the Soviet orders of Lenin awarded the Big Gold Medal of the Russian Committee for Protection of the World.

Academician Academician Academy of Sciences of the USSR; Corresponding member of C, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Candidate of Geographical Sciences, Professor, Honorary Professor of Moscow State University named after M. Lomonosov, Master of Sports of the USSR International Class.