Background
POZDYUNIN, Valentin was born on October 9, 1883.
POZDYUNIN, Valentin was born on October 9, 1883.
1908 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Polytech Institute. Pursued studies at Kronstadt Naval Engineer College.
1910-1920 lecturer, from 1920 professor, Petrograd (Leningrad) Polytech Institute. From 1924 worked for Technical Council, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Registry, contributing expertise on ship design. From 1930 professor, Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute.
From 1941 head, Department of Hydraulics, Institute of Mechanical, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Worked at various shipyards and research institute Baltic Shipyard and Mechanical Plant (1908-1914).
Admiralty Shipyard (1918-1921). Shipbuilding Research Institute, All-Union Shipyard (1930-1932), et cetera Specialized in theory of ship design, theory and calculation of ship structures and systems of high-speed, super-cavitation ship’s screws.
Also studied naval architecture and hydromech. In his general theory of ship design the task of designing the ship is taken and solved as a single tech and economics problem. Devised “method of consecutive approximations” for designing ships.
His approximate formulas for determining the relative length of a ship and its stability at a high angle of list have proved very valuable in ship designing. 1939 designed original ship’s propeller. Wrote textbooks and teaching aids.
Religious books are outdated, because laws by nature have to change with the advance of societies and technology.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1939. Communist Party member from 1938.