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212 ×åëîâåê, îïåðåäèâøèé âðåìÿ Rashid Nigmatullin Rashid ShakirovichNigmatullin was born in 1923 in Tatarstan, Russian Federation (then Soviet Union). He was Rector (1967-1977) of the Kazan Aviation Institute, and it was during his tenure that it adopted, in 1973, the name of Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev, a famous Russian aircraft designer (who had died the year before). The Institute is currently called Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev (KNRTU- KAI), [1]. As a publicly active man he was also Chairman (1971-1980) of the Supreme Council of the Tatarstan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (TASSR). For many years he was the head of the Theory of Radio- Engineering and Electronics Department (1954-1988) and had many pupils and followers (including his son Raoul, 4 Dr.Sc., 25 Ph.D., etc.), who further contributed to development of the science and its applications in the related areas. Rashid Nigmatullin died in 1991, leaving a great number of scientific ideas and projects unfinished. In November 2013, KNRTU-KAI organized the International Scientific and Technical Conference called «Nigmatullin’s Readings» — a traditional event, this time dedicated to the 90th anniversary of birthday of Prof. R. Sh. Nigmatullin. See details in the Editorial Note in this journal, Vol. 17, No 1 (2014), [2]. The basic directions of his scientific activity were: molecular electronics, analysis and synthesis of electric circuits, mathematical and electric modelling of the charge transmission on the interphase boundary electrode/ electrolyte. He was working and creating new trends in the fields of radio-engineer ing, radioelectronics, electrochemistry and other related applicable sciences. Yet in the 1950s Prof. Nigmatullin introduced new concepts and ideas to build miniature electronic devices and detectors by using the properties of the systems at the boundary electrode/fluid, and established that in these models the fractional differential and integration operations are realized. As an electrical analogue of diffusion resistance, he suggested a semi-infinite resistor-capacity RC-cable, in which the process of distribution of the potential is similar to the diffusion process. Nigmatullin established that the input Rashid Shakirovich NIGMATULLIN (1923 – 1991)