Bust of Academician Lavrentev

Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentiev (November 19, 1900, the city of Kazan – October 15, 1980, the city of Moscow) was Soviet mathematician and engineer, founder of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of USSR and Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (AS of USSR) (1939), academician of the Academy of Sciences of USSR (1946) and Vice-President (years 1957-1976) of Academy of Sciences of USSR.
 
During the Great Patriotic War Lavrentev developed the theory of cumulation at the explosion, which allowed to create effective anti-tank shells and mines. Mikhail Alekseevich decided a series of other problems for domestic artillery not less successfully.

The fundamental importance has the works of M.V. Keldysh and M.A. Lavrentiev "On the movement under the surface of a heavy liquid", which allowed to create hydrofoils.

Mikhail Alekseevich is the author of the largest theoretical works in the field of mathematics and, first of all, in the theory of functions.

M.A. Lavrentiev is the Hero of Socialist labor, the laureate of Lenin and State prizes, the member of a number of foreign academies and scientific societies. He was granted the highest award of the Academy of Sciences of USSR, i.e. the gold medal named after M.V. Lomonosov.

The bust of the academician was opened in 1988. The sculptor G. Paramonov, architect A. Ladinskii.