Yekaterinburg Bids Farewell to Former Ural State University Rector Vladimir Tretyakov

15:05, January 11, 2021

Tretyakov was the cornerstone figure in the development of Ural State University from 1993 until 2008

On January 8, 2021, Vladimir Evgenievich Tretyakov passed away - a man who devoted himself entirely to serving the Ural State University and made an invaluable contribution to the development of science and higher education in the Urals.

Vladimir Evgenievich was born in 1936 in Tula, and grew up in Zlatoust, where he graduated from school with a gold medal. All paths were open to him, but he confidently chose one - and this path led him to the Ural State University named after A.M. Gorky. After graduating with honors from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics with a degree in Mechanics (1959), and then graduate school (1963), he connected his life with scientific and teaching activities at the alma mater, successively passing all the stages of professional development - assistant (1963), senior Lecturer (1965), Associate Professor (1968), Professor (1988), Head of the Department of Informatics and Control Processes (1986-2012), Deputy Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics (1968-1976), Vice-Rector for Research (1988-1993).

In 1993 V.E. Tretyakov became head of the Ural State University, first elected by a conference of the university staff, and then re-elected to the position of rector for the second (1998) and third (2003) terms. In 2006-2011, Vladimir Evgenievich was President of the Ural State University, and since 2011 - Advisor to the Rector of the Ural Federal University.

Rector Tretyakov's research interests are problems of control of dynamical systems. Based on the results of the research, the candidate defended his thesis "The problem of meeting movements" (1966) and his doctoral thesis "Stochastic and deterministic differential games" (1986). In 2000 Vladimir Evgenievich was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

A number of works related to the problems of managing higher education and improving the organizational and economic mechanisms of scientific research, especially in the framework of the integration of higher education and fundamental research in RAS institutions, are also widely known.

The name of Vladimir Tretyakov is associated with a number of major achievements of the Ural State University at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries: the discovery of new educational areas and the use of modern information technologies in education, the creation of a training system for IT specialists and programmers, the organization of a number of scientific centers for natural science and humanities. problems, the revival of the scientific journal "News of the Ural University", the establishment and expansion of international relations through cooperation with foreign universities, the development of the Specialized Educational and Scientific Center (SSCC). V.E. Tretyakov was one of the authors of the idea of ​​the Big Eurasian University, being an active supporter of the integration of the largest universities in Yekaterinburg, the expansion of the system of interaction between university and academic science - the creative cooperation of universities with the institutes of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Benevolent, sincere, intelligent, open to everything new, Vladimir Evgenievich carried the banner of science high and with dignity through the trials and transformations that the sphere of higher education had to endure during the years of his leadership of the university. Untiringly pursuing a special mission - the mission of the Knight of the Enlightenment, he with conviction defended the educational values ​​that are fundamental to universities at all times.

Tretyakov's social activities are widely known in the Urals. Professor actively participated in the work of the scientific and technical council of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Presidium of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Public Chamber of the Sverdlovsk Region.