Lev Belkind Explained

Lev Davidovich Belkind (Russian: Лев Давидович Белькинд, Профессор, Доктор Технических наук; (27 August 1896, Myrhorod – November 16, 1969) was a Soviet scientist, engineer and historian; author of numerous publications on the history of science and technology.

His academic activity is associated with the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University) (Russian: Московский энергетический институт (технический университет)), where he has founded the department of Lighting Engineering (Russian: Кафедра Светотехники) in the Physics-Energy Faculty (Russian: Физико-энергетический факультет (ФИЗЭН)) in 1932.[1] [2] [3] [4] In 1937, he became the first dean of the faculty of Electro-Physics upon its formation (Russian: Электрофизический факультет (ЭлФИЗ)).[5] Later he has headed the department of History of Engineering (Russian: Кафедра истории техники)[6]

Fluent in Russian, English, French and German, and knowledgeable in additional languages, Prof. Belkind was a prominent researcher and collector of materials on the history of science and technology, both Russian and International. He was considered an authority in the field of scientific history, being an author of unique biographical research work of a number of influential figures in the Russian science.[7] [8] [9]

In recognition of his scientific achievements and contribution he was awarded the "Honored Scientist and Technologist" title (Russian: Заслуженный деятель науки и техники).[2] [7] by the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

Partial list of works and publications

Biographical Books

Technical Dictionaries

Books on the History of Science and Technology

Articles Published in Collections of Works by Different Authors

Autobiography

Publications about Prof. Belkind by other authors

External links

Notes and References

  1. Illuminator - Magazine of Lighting Solutions, Number 1, 2002 (Russian) - Interview with Prof. Ataev, Head of Department (Russian) Web site: Иллюминатор - журнал световых решений :: Ученье- свет, а неученье - тьма :: . 2008-03-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071016191532/http://illuminator.ru/article.asp?articleid=26 . 2007-10-16 .
  2. Illuminator - Magazine of Lighting Solutions, Number 3(17), 2005 (Russian) Web site: Иллюминатор - журнал световых решений :: СВЕТОТЕХНИЧЕСКОЕ ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ: традиции и современность :: светотехеническое образолвание, световое освещение, светотехника, электрическое освещение, осветительная установка, прожекторостроение, светотехнический центр страны, источник света . 2008-03-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071016195600/http://illuminator.ru/article.asp?articleid=750 . 2007-10-16 .
  3. History of Lighting Engineering Department, Clio Soft free indexed collection of reference works. Copyright © 2008 Clio Soft (Russian) http://2balla.ru/index.php?option=com_ewriting&Itemid=116&func=chapterinfo&chapter=31715&story=22646
  4. http://www.ldci.ru/edufull.asp?edu=3 Article mentioning
  5. History of the Department of Lighting Engineering, Moscow Power Engineering Institute site (Russian) - Web site: Archived copy . 2008-03-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080317023023/http://www.mpei.ac.ru/homepages/light/kaf_history.html . 2008-03-17 .
  6. http://zhurnal.lib.ru/u/uskach_m_a/r4.shtml Memoirs of Erwing Nagi, MPEI Student in the 1950s (Russian)
  7. http://electrolibrary.info/edison/edison_charodey.htm Citation in the article regarding Thomas Edison (Russian)
  8. http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/galglory_en/Krug.htm Sources mentioning in the article regarding Karl Krug
  9. Mentioning in the article "Analysis of priorities in science and technologies", Slovo (Russian) Web site: К вопросу о приоритетах в науке и технике :: История науки и техники :: Естествознание :: Слово. Православный образовательный портал . 2008-03-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080408151930/http://www.portal-slovo.ru/rus/science/226/11019/ . 2008-04-08 .
  10. Web site: Short content summary (Russian) . 2008-03-29 . https://archive.today/20130416122927/http://encycl.accoona.ru/?id=74795 . 2013-04-16 . dead .
  11. http://www.ufn.ru/ufn51/ufn51_7/Russian/r517_o.pdf Reference on the book (Russian)
  12. http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/galglory_en/Krug.htm Short reference on the monograph
  13. http://library.mephi.ru:8085/cgi/irbis64r/cgiirbis_64.exe?Z21ID=&I21DBN=BOOK&P21DBN=BOOK&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=fullw&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=3&S21P02=0&S21P03=A=&S21COLORTERMS=0&S21STR=%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4,%20%D0%9B.%20%D0%94. In the library of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (Russian)
  14. http://base.pl.spb.ru/cgi-bin/irbis64r_71/cgiirbis_64.exe?Z21ID=&I21DBN=KNIGA&P21DBN=KNIGA&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=fullw&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=3&S21P02=0&S21P03=A=&S21COLORTERMS=0&S21STR=%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4%20%D0%9B.%20%D0%94 Reference in the V. V. Mayakovsky Library (Russian)
  15. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000L5VM7O English-Russian Polytechnical Dictionary @ Amazon.co.uk
  16. http://www.plurabelle.co.uk/catalog/russ.html Dictionary for Sale at the Purabelle Books - in Cambridge
  17. https://archive.today/20120719120642/http://opac.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/opac/books-query?mode=0&code=20905663&key=B120690650818624&TGSRC=0&IRKBN=0 The dictionary in the library of Hokkaido University (Japanese)
  18. http://www.ets.ru/pg/r/dict/dr_hydroteh.htm Reference of the dictionary
  19. http://www.ets.ru/dctlst26-r.htm List of scientific and technical russian dictionaries (Russian)
  20. http://www.antikvarium.hu/ant/start.php?fsurl=http://www.antikvarium.hu/ant/find.php?func=szerzo&ujlekerdezes=yes&szerzoID=188429 Dictionary for Sale at the online Hungarian book store (Hungarian)
  21. Dictionary of Machine Elements in the University Library in Tirol, Austria (German) http://webapp.uibk.ac.at/alo_cat/card.jsp?id=68698
  22. Web site: In the online library Нефть и Газ (Russian) . 2008-03-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111002160816/http://www.oglibrary.ru/data/demo/019683/0196830492.html . 2011-10-02 . dead .
  23. https://archive.today/20120722220849/http://opac.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/opac/books-query?smode=0&key=B118249370927716&code=20590242 The book in the library of the Hokkaido University (Japanese)
  24. History of Energy Engineering in the Library of Energotrade.ru site (Russian) Web site: Портал Энерготрейдера | История энергетической техники. Белькинд Л.Д., Веселовский О.Н., Конфедератов И.Я., Шнейберг Я.А.; Государственное энергетическое издательство, 1960 . 2008-03-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071109123007/http://energotrade.ru/content/171/ . 2007-11-09 .
  25. http://www.edurss.ru/cgi-bin/db.pl?cp=&page=Book&id=41740&lang=Ru&blang=ru&list=Found 50 years of MPEI book @ urss.ru (Russian)
  26. Articles in the library of the Russian State Technical University in Irkutsk (Russian) http://library.istu.edu/hoe/bibl/electro.htm
  27. http://zodchii.ws/books/info-372.html
  28. http://www.infomag.ru/journals/j120r/8716.html VIET Journal, 1998, #3 (Russian)
  29. https://www.facebook.com/LDBelkind/ Из прошлого. Отрывки Воспоминаний. (Russian)