Academician Valentin Pashin dies
On the night of December 15 2013, the outstanding Russian scientist and shipbuilding engineer, scientific director - Deputy General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Krylov State Research Center, academician of RAS Valentin Mikhailovich Pashin passed away on 77.He was born on July 25, 1937, in the village of Alekseyevka, Khvalynsky District, Saratov Region. In 1960, he graduated from the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute with a degree in Shipbuilding and Ship Repair, qualifying as a shipbuilding engineer. From 1959, throughout his life he worked at the Central Research Institute named after Academician A.N. Krylov, having passed all the stages of his scientific career there. In 1990, he became its director and then supervisor - director. Since the summer of 2012, he has been the scientific director - deputy general director of the FSUE “Krylov State Research Center”, formed from the Central Research Institute named after academician A. N. Krylov.
Since 1995, he has also headed the ship design department of St. Petersburg State Maritime Technical University. He was a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (from 1997), doctor of technical sciences (1977), professor (1981). In 1985, he won the USSR State Prize for participation in the creation of a heavy nuclear missile cruiser project 1144. In 1994, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for his services in creating nuclear submarines and conducting their field tests. Four years later, in 1998, he received the RAS Award of Academician A.N. Krylov, and in 2003, the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology for creating a set of testing facilities for deepwater technology and conducting research to ensure the development and construction of underwater technical equipment for special purposes.
At the beginning of his activity at the Central Research Institute named after Academician A.N. Krylov, Pashin dealt with issues of civil shipbuilding. He developed the theoretical foundations of modern methods for optimizing ships and vessels based on mathematical and computational tools, including the theory of optimization of ships based on computer technologies, the theoretical foundations of the system design of ships and methods for optimizing their basic characteristics, mathematical models for optimizing the composition fleetnecessary for the formation of promising shipbuilding programs. He was one of the authors and developers of the industry-wide integrated program for designing ships and planning the construction of the Soviet civilian fleet, including the fishing one.
From 1978, Valentin Mikhailovich Pashin was mainly engaged in military shipbuilding. Under his leadership, the development of the fundamentals of modern Soviet military shipbuilding was carried out. In particular, the issues of strength and service life of submarine and deep-sea submersibles with immersion to 1000 and 6000 meters, respectively, were solved, low-noise propellers were created, and the acoustic protection of submarines was improved.
In 1979 – 1990, he led large-scale comprehensive studies on issues related to the commission on military-industrial issues - “Ocean” (contours and propulsion), “Gradient” (strength of submarines and deep-water vehicles), “Protection” (acoustic problems of submarines and design of low noise propulsion), "Bastion". On his initiative and with direct participation, many of the most complex practical problems and tasks within these programs were solved. In 1982 – 1992, he was the research manager for the design of a research submarine designed to study the issues of controllability, propulsion and acoustic secrecy when introducing polymer additives into the boundary layer created during the work on the programs “Ocean” and “Protection”.
In the post-Soviet period, Pashin managed the state programs “Russian Shipyards” (improving the civilian fleet and shipbuilding industry), “Shelf” (problems of creating ice-resistant offshore platforms for developing oil and gas fields on the freezing sea shelf of the North and Far East of Russia), “World Ocean” (problems expansion of marine activities of Russia in the oceans). Repeatedly participated in the testing of submarines and surface ships, headed the commission for solving the most difficult technical issues during the delivery of lead ships and submarines to the customer.
Valentin Pashin was the recognized leader of the scientific school on the problems of optimizing complex technical systems and making decisions in the presence of numerous limitations and uncertainties. He made a significant contribution to the preservation and development of the Central Research Institute named after Academician A.N. Krylov, leading the institute in 1990, that is, at a difficult time of economic transformations. Under his leadership, the institute was further developed as a powerful modern scientific and technical center of domestic shipbuilding, capable of performing the entire cycle of research and work on creating projects of new ships, ships and other sophisticated marine equipment, to conduct a wide range of various studies and tests to ensure real design, as well as fundamental and applied research on the development of all sections of the shipbuilding science. Under Valentin Mikhailovich, the institute participated in almost all projects of ships, vessels and ocean-engineering equipment implemented in Russia.
Over the past decade and a half, Academician Pashin was among the leaders of the developers of doctrines and shipbuilding programs, general schemes for the development of the industry, forecasts for domestic and foreign shipbuilding and shipbuilding.
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