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The first regional affiliation of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus was open in Gomel in 1959 as a laboratory for strength and durability of machines and parts belonging to the Institute of Theoretical Engineering of BSSR AS. It was headed by a Candidate of Technical Sciences (Ph.D.) Vladimir A. Belyi. In 1964 it was reorganized into a Mechanics of Polymers Department and in 1969 into the Metal-Polymer Research Institute of BSSR AS.
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The Institute was created in response to a breakthrough in the physics and mechanics of polymers, growing demands of economy in polymer and metal-polymer materials as well as broad vistas in their adoption in industry. The outstanding Academicians M.V. Keldysh, V.A. Karguin, A.Y. Ishlinsky, P.A. Rebinder, K.A. Andrianov and I.V. Kragelsky have contributed much effort and concern in organizing and development of the Institute.
Academician Vladimir A. Belyi (1922 1994) was the first director of the institute (up till 1979). Between 1979 and 1991 the Institute was headed by Academician Anatolyi I. Sviridenok (at present the head of department of the Research Center on Problems in Resource Saving of Belarussian AS), from 1991 till 2002 by the Corresponding-Member of Belarussian AS Yury M. Pleskachevsky (at present chief researcher at the Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer of NASB). Since 2002 the Institute's leader is the Corresponding-Member of Belarussian AS, Prof. Nikolai K. Myshkin.
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At present MPRI is an academic scientific and engineering center consisting of 11 research departments and a special design bureau with a pilot plant “Metal-Polymer”. It manages a highly qualified staff of 330 employees, among which are 3 Corresponding-Mmebers of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB), more than 50 researchers with D.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees.
The Institute carries out the research in about 50 subjects yearly within the framework of the state programs of fundamental, combined and applied investigations, more than 20 tasks of the national and regional scientific and technical programs. It cooperates on contractual base with 70-80 enterprises, design and research organizations in Belarus, NIS countries and other states.
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Numerous papers and patents generalized in dozens of monographs, Ph.D. and D.Sc. theses have brought to the Institute excellent reputation at home and abroad. The French Society of Mechanical Engineers awarded Vladimir Belyi with Vaucanson's (1968) and Jacquard's (1970) Honorary medals for the achievements in tribology. Outstanding results of MPRI's staff were rewarded by the Belarus State Prize in science (1972), the Belarus State Prize in engineering (1978), the Belarus Council of Ministers Prize (1981), two USSR Prizes for Young Scientists (1973 and 1982), two Belarus Prizes for Young Scientists (1975 and 1986), the Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (1993),a Premium of the Government of Russian Federation (2005). Many of the staff members of MPRI were decorated with orders and medals of the USSR and Belarus.
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1959 – a branch laboratory for strength and durability of machines and their parts of the Institute of Theoretical Engineering of BSSR AS.
1964 – a Department of the Mechanics of Polymers of BSSR AS.
1969 – Metal-Polymer Research Institute of BSSR AS.
1994 – V.A. Belyi Metal-Polymer Research Institute of Academy of Sciences of Belarus (MPRI ASB).
1997 ã. – V.A. Belyi Metal-Polymer Research Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (MPRI NASB).
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