Director of the Institute of Physics and Mathematics of KBSU Boris Kunizhev was awarded the title «Honored Scientist of the Republic of Ingushetia»
The honorary title «Honored Scientist of the Republic of Ingushetia» was awarded to BORIS INALOVICH KUNIZHEV — Director of the Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H. M. Berbekov, Professor of the Department of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Honorary Worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation, Honorary Resident of the village Nartan of the Chegem region of the KBR.
Cooperation
In accordance with the decree of the Head of Ingushetia dated February 14, 2020, this title is awarded to scientists for specific merits and valuable works in the field of science, for fruitful scientific and pedagogical activities and the introduction of scientific achievements into practice.
Professor of KBSU received a regional award for many years of cooperation with Ingush State University, which was founded in 1994 and is one of the youngest universities in the Russian Federation.
Under the leadership of B.I.Kunizhev, three employees of the Ingush State University, who now work as associate professors and head departments, defended their Ph.D. theses in physical, mathematical and technical sciences at KBSU. Boris Inalovich is the scientific supervisor of an employee of this university, who is preparing a job for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Together with the teachers of the only state university in the Republic of Ingushetia, the professor of KBSU wrote two textbooks — on polymer physics and theoretical mechanics.
Path in science
Boris Kunizhev was born in the village of Nartan on July 11, 1951. After graduating from KBSU with a degree in Physics, he stayed to work in the research sector of the university. Two years later, he entered graduate school at the Department of Physics of the Moscow Textile Institute named after AN Kosygin «, defended his Ph.D. thesis» Structure formation and molecular mobility in biaxially stretched polymers «. He defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic «Investigations of the effects of different energy intensities on polymer materials» at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation named after N.N.Semenov.
The main direction of his research activities is physics of high energy densities. The scientists discovered and explained new mechanisms of structure formation in deformed polymer materials, modeled and investigated the processes of crater formation and destruction in fragile media under dynamic loading. Research results are reported at annual international, all-Russian and regional conferences.
For 47 years of work at the Kabardino-Balkarian State University, B.I. Kunizhev has published more than 200 articles in the leading peer-reviewed scientific journals of the Higher Attestation Commission (Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation), Scopus (the world’s largest abstract database with the ability to track scientific citations of publications), WоS (Web of Science — an Internet platform , combining abstract databases of publications in scientific journals and patents).
The scientist’s works are of great importance not only for the North Caucasus, but also for the whole country. In 2011, for great services in the field of research on the effect of energy of various intensities on polymer materials and many years of fruitful work of B.I. Kunizhev was awarded the title “Honorary Worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation”.
For more than 20 years, Boris Inalovich has been a member of the dissertation council at KBSU with a degree in high molecular weight compounds. A total of seven candidate dissertations have been defended under his supervision, two doctoral dissertations are being prepared.
Innovator
B.I. Kunizhev is distinguished by his passion for research and an active scientific position. Colleagues respect the director of the Institute of Physics and Mathematics of KBSU for their professionalism, business qualities, talent of an organizer, for their ability to take risks and win.
In the 90s, when the Russian system of higher education, as an experiment, began the transition to a multi-level system, the dean of the physics faculty of KBSU, a member of the presidium of the educational and methodological association «Physics» of classical universities in Russia, Professor Kunizhev introduced the model «bachelor, master «. Developing the Bologna process, aimed at ensuring the comparability of standards and quality of higher education qualifications in different countries, KBSU was one of the first universities in the Russian Federation to apply this system.
In addition to research activities, Boris Inalovich is immersed in the educational affairs of the university. He reads lecture courses «Theoretical mechanics», «Equations of state of matter in extreme conditions» and conducts practical classes on these courses. Participates in the organization and conduct of All-Russian, North Caucasian, republican and university Olympiads in mathematics, computer science and physics among schoolchildren and students. Conducts educational and methodological classes with teachers and gifted children of secondary
educational institutions of all municipal districts of the republic. Develops educational programs and working curricula for new directions and profiles of training bachelors and masters at the departments of the Institute of Physics and Mathematics for distance learning of students and networking with other universities in the country. B.I. Kunizhev published five textbooks.
Both physics and lyrics
The interlocutors are often struck by the erudition of Boris Inalovich, the versatility of his interests. A long-standing hobby is numismatics. The collection, which began in 1988, when Boris visited Germany at the head of a student construction team, presents banknotes from more than 100 countries of the world.
The professor is one of the ten best chess players in Kabardino-Balkaria, on occasion he boldly enters into competition with titled athletes. Most of all he enjoys playing blitz. Having abandoned the intention to become a professional chess player, Kunizhev gave preference to physics, and is sure that he made the right choice. With a great research and teaching load, he led the chess section for many years and coached the national chess team of KBSU.
Boris was taught the game of chess, as well as the German language, by his father’s elder brother, who had received a higher engineering education in Greece before the revolution. His aristocracy, ability to be above everyday difficulties, had a great influence on the future scientist. It was thanks to his uncle that Boris Kunizhev, already in his childhood, was sure that he would become a professor and poet.
After defending his doctoral thesis, when free time appeared, the young scientist began to write poetic dedications to relatives, friends, colleagues, whose benevolent reviews gave confidence, pushed him to an attempt to reflect his own vision of the world in verse, to express philosophical reflections. One of the poetic cycles is dedicated to the history of the Circassians. In Russian, Boris Inalovich writes lyric and humorous poems, even fables, and about deep personal experiences, about life — in Kabardian. His poem about his native village became the hymn of Nartan.
Literary works of a physicist endowed with a poetic gift were published in periodicals, and only in 2013 were they published as a separate book. Currently, a new collection of poems is being prepared for release, which will become a kind of gift for the 70th anniversary of the author.
The upcoming anniversary date for Professor Kunizhev is not only an occasion to sum up intermediate results, but also to build new big plans in full accordance with his own aphorism, which became the epigraph of the poetic collection Thoughts Aloud: “Everything that can be imagined exists”.