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June 15, 2011 we celebrated 90 years of talented scientist and teacher, doctor of technical sciences, professor, head of the department in the past, and now a leading researcher of the department of chemical, polymer and silica engineering Igor Mykhailovych Fedotkin.

Each year, the State Intellectual Property Service of Ukraine conducts Contest "Invention of the Year." On March,31 the results of the contest "Invention of the Year - 2010" were summed up.

In 2009 Mikulonok Igor Olegovych won the honorary title of "teacher-researcher" for the third time. He works at the Department of machinery and apparatus of chemical and petroleum production of engineering and chemical faculty for over 20 years.

His life was fruitful, interesting and at the same time extremely stressful. He was born in Dnipridzerzhinsk in a large working class family. Childhood and adolescence occurred in the turbulent war and postwar years.

There are people who are seemed to be invisible in everyday life. But their creativity is rich and diverse, a flight of fancy and incredible performance - amazing. Only the inner circle and colleagues know how many time and efforts is required to do their work.

The beginning of the 30s of last century was the period of industrialization in the Soviet Union. The main classical construction and building materials - metal, metal alloys, brick, wood, etc - no longer met the needs of the economy under conditions of rapid technological progress.