27/07/2021
It is with deep sorrow we inform you that on July 24, 2021, at the age of 85, the well-known environmental scientist, the outstanding scientist in the field of mining sciences, geoecology, geophysics, nature management, and sustainable development of regions, director and founder of the Institute of Nature Management Problems and Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Correspondent-member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
SHAPAR Arkady Grigorievich.
Arkady Grigorievich was born on September 5, 1936, in the city of Ingulets, Dnepropetrovsk region, Ukraine. After graduating from the Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute in 1959 with a degree in mine surveying, he worked for three years as a career foreman, chief mine surveyor of the office for the extraction of nonmetallic minerals of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic.
In one thousand nine hundred and sixty-two, Arkady Grigorievich entered the graduate school of the Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. Since then, his life has become inseparable from the scientific institutions of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
During 1962 - 1988. at the Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine completed his postgraduate studies, worked as a junior researcher, head of the department. He defended his candidate (in 1966) and doctoral (1978) dissertations in the specialty "Open-pit mining of mineral deposits", received the academic title of "professor" (1982).
Arkady Grigorievich Shapar made a significant contribution to the development of many areas of mining and earth sciences. First of all, he was recognized as a specialist in mining, environmental management, sustainable development of regions, environmental monitoring, and man-made safety. He was the first to qualitatively and quantitatively substantiate the influence of modern mining on the dynamics of the state of the geological environment and the environment as a whole. With his scientific works, he made an outstanding contribution to the development of earth sciences, incl. geomechanics and geophysics of natural and technogenic rock massifs, which are complex geosystems with different physical and mechanical features changing in space. Based on the results of his fundamental scientific research, methods of gravitational separation of rocks of rock massifs and their movement in a given direction were proposed, which have no analogs in the world practice and have been widely implemented in the quarries of Ukraine and the CIS countries, provided not only a significant economic effect but also a REDUCTION of the scale of influence mining operations on the environment.
His name is associated with the use of effective environmentally-oriented technologies of open-pit mining of mineral deposits, as well as the elimination of the negative consequences of mining activities that meet the requirements of the strategy for sustainable development of territories.
Under his scientific guidance and with direct participation, for the first time in Ukraine, back in 1939, a methodology for choosing a strategy, criteria, and indicators of sustainable ecological, economic and social development of the technogenic load of the country's regions (on the example of the Dnieper region) was proposed and on its basis - the Concept of transition Of Ukraine towards sustainable development, approved by the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and sent to State authorities (2007). A draft state program for ensuring sustainable development of the region for the extraction and primary processing of uranium raw materials has been prepared (APPROVED by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, 2004).
Arkady Grigorievich Shapar - Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine (2000), laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology (1999) and the V. A.N. Dinnik (1989). He combined scientific activity with teaching and social activities. His lectures were attended by students of the National Technical University "Dneprovskaya Polytechnic", and two dozen of his students defended their candidate and doctoral dissertations.
He is a full member of the Public Academies: Ukrainian Ecological Academy of Sciences, Academy of Mining Sciences, European Academy of Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences in Hanover. He is an associate member of the Council for Problems of Mining Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an Honorary Member of the Russian Mining Academy. He is certified by the International Academy of the Environment, the UN-UNDP International Program.
Until the last hour, A.G. SHAPAR successfully supervised scientific research at the Institute of Nature Management and Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, was the editor-in-chief of the collection of scientific papers "Ecology and Nature Management", and his articles were published in the high-ranking world scientific journals. The scientific potential of A.G. Shapar was more than 400 scientific works of which 37 are monographs.
The scientific community, colleagues, friends, and students deeply grieve over the death of Arkady Grigorievich SHAPAR and express sympathy to his family and friends.