Gennady G. Schelochkov

(29.03.1941 – 29.10.2023)

The staff of the Research Station of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Bishkek city informs with deep regret that on October 29, 2023, after a long and serious illness, the Head of RS RAS Representative Office in the Russian Federation, Gennady Schelochkov, passed away/ We deeply mourns the irreparable loss.

Gennady Schelochkov stood at the origins of Research Station foundation. His activities in Research Station began in January 1983, from the position of Head of the Frunze expedition, and then he occupied the position of the Chief Engineer of Experimental-Methodological Electromagnetic Expedition of the Institute of High-Technology and Mechanics of the USSR. From 1999 to 2004, Gennady Schelochkov worked as Deputy Director of the Research Station of the Joint Institute of High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Bishkek city.

In January 2005, he was appointed as an Executive Director of RS RAS, managing the organizational, administrative and financial activities of the organization. Since July 2009, he was appointed as a Head of the Representative Office (RS RAS) in the Russian Federation, retaining the duties of Executive Director - first deputy director RS RAS in Bishkek, and since November 2015, he was assigned the duties of Head of the Representative Office of the RS RAS in the Russian Federation.

He was an outstanding organizer and made a great contribution to the development of geophysical science both in Russia and in the Central Asian region, in particular in Kyrgyzstan, was a well-known specialist in the field of complex geodynamic research, the author of 84 scientific papers, inventions and 2 useful models.

The activities of Gennady Grigorievich were highly appreciated: he was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic for high scientific achievements and assistance in strengthening scientific ties between Russian and Kyrgyz science; Certificate of Honor from the Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation for his great personal contribution to solving problems of geodynamics and geophysics, the development of Russian-Kyrgyz scientific and technical cooperation in the field of Earth sciences; Certificate of honor from the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Trade Unions of the Russian Academy of Sciences, for many years of conscientious work for the benefit of Russian science; He received a Certificate of Honor from the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations of Russia for impeccable work and high achievements in professional activities and was awarded an International Certificate from the International Research Corporation IRIS for supporting national and international seismology.

In 1990, he was elected as a Deputy of the legendary First Parliament of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan.

The staff and management of the Research Station are grateful to Gennady G. Schelochkov  for the many years of dedicated work. He was the ideological inspirer of many areas of activity of the Research Station. His extraordinary and often unexpected vision of the task at hand always created an effective basis for its successful solution.

We pay tribute and immensely mourn Gennady Grigorievich - an outstanding scientist, a talented organizer, a man of a broad soul, who devoted his entire life to serving science. We will greatly miss his kind and wise outlook on life, his advice, and his warm, fatherly attitude towards the employees of our organization. Until the last minute of his life, Gennady Grigorievich represented and defended the interests of the Research Station.

We express our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Gennady Grigorievich.

Director of RS RAS                           A.K. Rybin

Last Updated on Friday, 03 November 2023 08:11