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Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1946), Professor, Engineer, a scientist in the sphere of mechanisms theory.

Vladimir Dobrovolsky was born on June 6 (May 25), 1880 in Mozyr. After graduating from the Minsk Real School, he entered the Moscow Higher Technical College (MHTC). At the beginning of 1902, his studying was interrupted by the expulsion to Siberia for participating in the anti-government demonstration. At the end of 1903, he was allowed to continue his studies in MHTC, which he graduated with honours in 1906 as a mechanical engineer. Upon graduating from MHTC, he worked in the Bryansk Technical Secondary School. He was engaged not only in teaching, but also further studying of mechanics and other sciences. In 1913, he worked at the Moscow Secondary Technical School, where he taught the mechanics and some other majors.

In 1929-1940 V. Dobrovolsky received a professor degree at the Air Force Academy named after N.E. Zhukovsky. In 1930-1949 he worked as the Head of the Mechanisms Theory Department at the Moscow Machine Tool Institute. In 1938 he elaborated the classification of mechanisms that contributed to the development of kinematics and kinetostatics of mechanisms. In 1940-1945 he developed the theory of spherical mechanisms based on the use of analogy between flat and spherical mechanisms. V. Dobrovolsky published a number of textbooks and toolkits for universities, as well as secondary educational institutions.

V.Dobrovolsky was awarded the Chebyshev Prize of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1946), the Order of Lenin and a number of medals.

Sourced from the database of the Republican Library on Science and Technology.


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