Physicist, Educator. Personal: Born June 13, 1950, Gorno-Altaisk, Russia; Son of Mikhail Petrovich Apasov and Anna Ivanovna Apasova (both deceased); Married Galina Vasilyevna Yemets-Apasova; Father of Andrey (1976).

Education: Doctor of Science, Altaiskiy Politechnical Institute, 2002; Associate Professor 2000; Candidate of Science 1991; Engineer-Physicist 1967-73, Tomsk Polytechnic Institute.

Career: Scientific Educator.

Influences: Working in the Laboratory of Neutron Physics under Guidance of the Director, Academician of the Academy of Science U.S.S.R., Laureate of Nobel Prize Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, U.S.S.R., 1971 – 73; Sr. Lab. Asst. Phys. – Energetic Inst., Obninsk, U.S.S.R., 1973 – 75; Engr. – Designer “Bolshevic” Wks. (Obuchovskiy State Works), Leningrad, U.S.S.R., 1975 – 77; Chief of lab. Machine Wks., Yurga, U.S.S.R. – Russia, 1977 – 92; Chief of Office Abrasive Wks., Yurga, Russia, 1992 – 95;V.p. of Branch Campus Tomsk Polytechnic U., Yurga, 1995 – 96; Dean, 2000 – 2002; Dept. Head, 1995 – 2011.

Author: (monograph) Welding Destruction, 2002; Physical Foundation of Non-Destructive Testing During Welding, 2004; Active Diagnostics of Destruction and Preventing of the Technological Catastrophes, 2010; (textbook) Special Electrometallurgy, 2003; Materials Science, 2005 (named best textbook Kemerovo Region, 2006); Introduction in the Theory and Technology of Manufacture Special Steels, 2006; Methods of Research, Testing, Analysis and Control in Metallurgy and Materials Sciences, 2008 (named 2nd textbook Kemerovo Region, 2011); The Nanocrystallinity of Metals & Alloys, 2009 (named best textbook, Nat. Rsch. Tomsk Polytechnic U., 2009); Foundation of the Technology Obtaining a High Purity Metals, 2012; Patents for A.M. Apasov’s Method to Analyse Failure of Welded Joints; Contbr. Articles to Profl. Jours. Organizational Memberships: Deputy Town Soviet of People’s Deputies, 1997 – 99; Yurga, 1990 – 95; Lt. Russian Mil. Creative Works: Expertise in Nuclear Physics, Materials Sciences and Non-Destructive Testing; Founder and First Head of Department “The Metallurgy of High Purity Metals”.

Personal Interests include Stamp Collecting/Philately, Master in Sports Fishing. Honors and Awards: The Golden Department of Russia, Russian Acad. Natural History, Moscow, 2011; Nobel Alfred Bernhard Gold Medal, Russian Academy of Natural History, Moscow, 2008; named Honoured Scientist, Honoured Educator, Russian Federation, Moscow, 2007; Assoc. Prof. of Year Award, Tomsk Polytechnic University, 2003; Laureate Nuclear Physics, Obninsk, 1974 and Technical Physics, Yurga, 1980.

Personal Philosophy: Fight and Find; Discover and Not Give Up.

Address: Moskovskay Street 26, Apartment 4, Yurga, Kemerovo Region 652050, Russia. mchmyti@rambler.ru