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HEROES MUST BE REMEMBERED

On the eve of Memory and Reconciliation Day (May 8) and World War II Victory Day (May 9), we organized a visit and meeting with our veterans, former employees of the Institute, of whom, unfortunately, only four remained.

Each of them has an interesting life story:

- Vasyl Pavlovych Volodko (96) veteran of war, candidate of technical sciences, senior researcher. A living legend of road science of the Soviet Union, the developer of industrial waste using technologies in road construction. During the Great Patriotic War in 1943, he was sent to Nazi Germany for forced labor in Saar mines, and then transferred to the Dachau concentration camp. In 1945 he was released and returned home. 7 years later he was graduated from Lviv Polytechnic Institute.

After the war he worked as head of the production and technical department, later – as chief engineer. He graduated in 1959 from the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakhstan SSR, worked in the Kazakhstan branch of SoyuzdorNDI. In 1964 he defended his dissertation and received the degree of PhD. The results of his dissertation had practical application in the construction of virgin lands.

From 1968 to 1999 he worked at “DerzhdorNDI” SE as a senior researcher, head of the laboratory, head of the department of construction of roads with pavements from industrial waste, a leading researcher. He has a number of inventions, numerous scientific works. One of the main achievements of Vasyl Volodko there was a solution to the problems of using industrial waste in road construction. According to his developments, big amounts of industrial waste were used, in particular Heating Power Plants removal ash, metallurgical slag, cement production waste, and the wastes of coal industry.

Vasyl Volodko was a pioneer in the development and implementation in practice of road construction of tar and other coal binders modified by polymers. Under his leadership and direct participation, cement-organic-mineral mixtures were developed, which are still used today. The work of the department under the leadership of Vasyl Volodko repeatedly awarded diplomas and medals during the then Exhibitions of Economic Achievements.

 

- Volodymyr Hryhorovych Alieiev (95) - combatant, veteran of war, disabled person of the 2nd group.

V. Alieiev fought in the Soviet Army from 1943 to 1945. Participant in the battles for the liberation of Manchuria from Japanese invaders.

In 1956 he graduated from the Kyiv Civil Engineering Institute. After distance education he graduated from Moscow Institute of Patent Studies in 1976.

From 1971 to 1985 he worked at “Ukrdortehnologiya” State Enterprise, which was later succeeded by “DerzhdorNDI” SE as a chief specialist of the technical department, patent and licensing department, metrology and standardization department, design and technology department. He has a number of copyright certificates for inventions, innovation proposals and scientific papers.

Thanks to him, the company created and successfully operated a normative control service, developed technical specifications for road construction materials, regulations on the quality control department at Mindorbud plants, published collections of inventions implemented in Mindorbud of the Ukrainian SSR.

 

- Liia Viktorivna Kovalevych (88), veteran of the war labor front, PhD, senior researcher.

In 1942, at the age of 10 she was forcibly deported to Nazi Germany together with her mother, from where she returned to Kyiv only in 1945.

She graduated from school and later from the Kyiv Automobile and Road Institute (KADI) in 1957.

During her career she went through all the stages - at first she worked as a foreman on the line, engineer of the production and technical department, group engineer, senior engineer. In 1970, after graduating from postgraduate studies, she defended her dissertation and obtained the candidate of technical sciences (PhD) degree .

From 1969 to 1985 she worked at “DerzhdorNDI” SE. She went through a difficult scientific path from a junior researcher to the scientific secretary.

She studied the properties of cold bitumen-mineral mixtures, bitumen emulsions use, improving the properties of binders and bituminous-mineral materials for road construction. During the whole period of her work she took an active part in the public life of the institute. She is an author of a number of scientific papers.

 

- Olha Andriivna Linska (85), veteran of the war labor front.

During the war, she remained with her parents on the territory occupied by the German invaders.

In 1968 she graduated from the Kharkiv State Institute of Culture. After distance studying she graduated from Kyiv Public Institute of Patent Studies in 1973.

From 1977 to 1990 together with V. Alieiev she worked in “Ukrdortehnologiya’ State Enterprise as an engineer, senior engineer, head of the group in the department of scientific and technical information.

Thanks to Olha Linska the patent fund of the road industry was completed and filled, a reference and search apparatus for the patent fund were created.

Thanks to the hero's deeds, we have the opportunity to live today, so we will remember forever their heroism, courage and enormous efforts during the terrible years of the war.

We wish everyone good health, new hopes, constant prosperity and a clear blue sky! 

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