Alexander  V.  Manzhirov,  D.Sc.  (Phys.&Math.),  Ph.D.,  M.S.,  is a noted scientist in the fields of mechanics and applied mathematics, integral equations, and their  applications. After graduating with honors from the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of Rostov State  University in 1979, A. V. Manzhirov attended postgraduate courses at Moscow  Institute of Civil  Engineering. He received his Ph.D. Degree in 1983 at Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering  Industry and D.Sc. Degree in 1993 at the Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian (former  USSR) Academy of Sciences. Since 1983, A. V. Manzhirov has been working at the Institute for  Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is head of the Laboratory  for Modeling in Solid Mechanics at the same institute. Professor Manzhirov is also head of a branch of the Department of Applied Mathematics at Bauman  Moscow State Technical University, professor of mathematics at Moscow State University of  Engineering and Computer Science, vice-chairman of Mathematics and Mechanics Expert Council of the  Higher Certification Committee of the Russian Federation, vice-chairman of Solid Mechanics  Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and expert in mathematics, mechanics, and  computer science of the Russian Foundation  for  Basic  Research.  He  is  on  the  Editorial   Advisory  Boards  of    about a dozen important scientific journals, including Mechanics of Solids;  Computational Mechanics of Continua; News of Saratov State University, New Series, Series of  Mathematics, Mechanics, and Computer Science; Bulletin of the Yakovlev Chuvash State Pedagogical  University, Series of Mechanics of  Limiting  State;  Mathematical  Modeling and Numerical Methods;  member of the International Editorial  Board  of  the  journal News  of  the  National  Academy  of   Sciences   of   the   Republic   of   Armenia,   Mechanics and International Editorial Board of  website EqWorld - The World  of  Mathematical Equations (http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru). He is member of  the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, the European Mechanics Society  (EUROMECH), and the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Mathematical  Society (AMS), the International Association for Applied Mathematics and   Mechanics  (GAMM), and the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Award Winner of the First Competition of the Science Support Foundation (Moscow). Professor Manzhirov has made important contributions to the fields of accreted solids mechanics,  contact mechanics and tribology, viscoelasticity and creep, theory of integral  equations and their applications. He is the author of fourteen books and 4 textbooks in English, Russian, and German including some best-selling handbooks (including Contact Problems  in Mechanics of Growing Solids [in Russian], Nauka, Moscow, 1991; Handbook of Integral Equations,  CRC Press, Boca Raton, New York, 1998; Handbuch der Integralgleichungen: Exacte Lo¨sungen, Spektrum  Akad. Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin, 1999; Contact Problems in the Theory of Creep [in Russian],  National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Erevan, 1999; Handbook of Mathematics for Engineers and  Scientists, Chapman & Hall/ CRC, Boca Raton, New York, 2006), nearly 200 research papers, and two patents. Professor  Manzhirov is a winner of the First Competition of the Science Support Foundation  2001, Moscow. In December 27, 2014 Prof. A. V. Manzhirov was inaugurated as a Member of Academy of Science of  Armenia. In September 1, 2015 he was appointed a deputy director of Institute for Problems in Mechanics of RAS.

Mironov Boris Guryevich e-mail: predel21@mail.ru, Rector, DSc., Prof., Chuvash State Pedagogical University, Russia,  Cheboksary. Radayev Yuri Nikolayevich e-mail: radayev@ipmnet.ru, y.radayev@gmail.co , Leading Researcher, DSc., Prof., Institute for Problems in Mechanics of RAS, Russia, Moscow.