Garri G. Литвинcкий

Born on 08.01.39 in Voronezh, graduated with honors from the Mining College (Rostov-on-Don, 1957) and Donetsk Polytechnic Institute (Donetsk, 1962) with a degree in Mine and Underground Construction.

Place of work and position:

1. mining foreman and shift engineer in the construction of vertical shafts (trust "Donetskshakhtoprokhodka", Donetsk, 1963),

2. Junior and then senior researcher and deputy head of the laboratory of the Donugi Research Institute, Donetsk, 1964-69.,

3. Senior lecturer, then associate professor and professor of the Donbass State Technical University (from 1969 to the present).

Defense of doctoral dissertations "Development of geotechnical parameters and methods for creating rock-bearing structures from explosion-unloaded and hardened rocks" in 1988 (Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine SSR, Dnepropetrovsk).

Area of scientific interests (main scientific directions):

• new scientific doctrine of manless underground mining;

• development of new unconventional mining technologies at great depths of development;

• progressive unconventional designs of basic mining equipment samples;

• mechanics of rocks (theory of strength, methods and devices for determining the physical and mechanical properties of rocks, rock pressure in underground workings, stress-strain state of rocks and massifs, processes of deformation and destruction of rocks);

• physical processes of mining (geomechanics of explosion, introscopy of rocks and massifs, filtration of liquid and gas, hardening and softening of rocks, management of the stressed state of the massif);

• fixing, maintenance and protection of mine workings, stability management of underground mine workings, construction and calculation of supports for underground mine workings and structures;

In total, more than 350 scientific publications and articles have been published (more than 140 of them without co-authors), including 7 monographs. More than 150 inventions and patents have been obtained (65 of them without co-authors). About 40 original methodological developments for the educational process in higher education.