Biography

Hello, I am Yuri Spirochkin, an engineer and researcher in the field of aerospace technology and

nuclear energy.

In 1975, I graduated from the N. E. Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School (at present: N. E. Bauman

Moscow State Technical University) with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in the field of spacecraft

construction. I think it was the best higher technical educational institution in the USSR.

From 1975 to 1994 I was lucky enough to work in the Scientific and Production Association (Russian abbreviation: NPO) Energia (at present: JSC S. P. Korolyov Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Korolyov, Moscow region), where I took part in the design of

the Energia-Buran space transport system (a Soviet analog of American Space Shuttle). Within the framework of this project, I collaborated with NPO Molniya (a company that created the Soviet shuttle Buran) and TsAGI (Tsentralnyi Aero-Gidrodinamicheskii Institut, currently, the State Scientific Center – Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Professor N. E. Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute").

The methodology created while working on the project and the results of its application made up the content of my PhD thesis.

In the early 1990s, we, a small group of fellow engineers, organized under the charter of the Association "Aviation Safety Foundation of the USSR" a research and engineering company Dynamika, and I was its director for several years. Thanks to collaboration with TsAGI and affiliation with the Association I got acquainted activities of a row of Russian aircraft design bureaus.

A decade later, the situation forced me to leave the business, and for three years I served as a department head at the Institute of Post-Graduate Education of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency. In the course of this employment, I participated in solving some problems of eye microsurgery using the methods of hydrodynamic analysis and design. Bioengineering was an unusual, but extremely interesting stage in my activity.

From 2005 to 2021, I worked at NIKIET (Nauchno-Issledovatelskii i Konstruktorskii Institut EnergoTekhniki, currently, JSC N. A. Dollezhal Research and Design Institute of Power Engineering, Moscow) - one of the leading organizations of Russian nuclear power industry. During this period, I contributed to rulemaking: the preparation of regulatory documents and standards for the design of equipment and pipelines of nuclear power plants and their life cycle management. From 2009 to 2011, I served as a visiting expert at the International Atomic Energy Agency, participating in the development of the VERLIFE standard in Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria. My activities abroad also included certification of pipeline supports of the German company Lisega in order to supply them for the Leningradskaya NPP-2 under construction and work on extending the service life of Units 5 and 6 of the Kozloduy NPP in Bulgaria.

Working in nuclear energy, I did not break ties with aerospace industry. For several ears until March 2022, I held a honorary position of Chairman of the Board of Directors at JSC Consortium Space Regatta (Korolyov, Moscow region). From 2020 to the present, I carry out duties of an expert at the International Consultancy and Analysis Agency Aviation Safety (Moscow) on aerospace technology.

This entire long list is intended only to demonstrate many years of experience in aerospace and nuclear engineering. Now, having retired from public service, I am engaged in independent research. I see my mission in contributing to the development of a philosophy of design that will ensure that newly created technical systems meet modern views on safe human-machine interaction. I am trying to do it in my articles and books. You can find a list of them on the page Works or on the website https://orcid.org. Some recent publications are posted on the page Journal of this site.

My friends do not consider me a person immersed only in technical and philosophical issues. They also know me as an amateur painter and graphic artist. In addition, I am happy to work in my garden.