Mikhail Vasilyevich Shuleikin
Mikhail Vasilyevich Shuleikin (born 21 October 1884 in Moscow; died July 1939 in Moscow) was a Soviet scientist who worked in radio-frequency engineering. He was a professor and an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He is buried at Novodevichy Cemetery.
Shuleikin studied at the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (then the Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute) and graduated in 1908 as an electrical engineer. He stayed at the institute as a junior laboratory assistant in the electromachine laboratory, specializing in radio engineering. He served in the army from 1908 to 1909.
From 1914 to 1918 he taught at the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute, offering courses on collector motors and radiotelegraph generators, and he supervised diploma projects on radio telegraph stations and high-frequency machines. Between 1913 and 1918 he worked at the Radiotelegraph Plant of the Maritime Department, where he organized Russia’s first factory for making radio measuring instruments.
From 1919 he led the radio engineering departments at several Soviet institutes, including the Institute of National Economy named after G.V. Plekhanov, the Military Electrotechnical Communication Academy, the Moscow Electrotechnical Institute of Communications, and the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
Shuleikin was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences on 1 February 1933, and on 28 January 1939 he became a full member (academician) in the Technical Sciences division, specializing in radio engineering.
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