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214 ×åëîâåê, îïåðåäèâøèé âðåìÿ he called respectively «recond» and «reind» and planned further investigations on the subject, that however he was not able to finish; see details in [5]. In this way, Nigmatullin was the first in Russia, and one of the pioneers in the world, to think about practical applications of the operators of fractional differentiation, in the 1960s, long before the first specialized conferences on FC and round table discussions dedicated to the «open question» of the existence of any physical or geometrical interpretation of fractional order derivatives. He suggested and realized for the first time an electrochemical device that performs the fractional integration/differentiation operation of order one-half[3]. R.Sh. Nigmatullin published a total of 178 papers and had 39 inventions and patents. But this publication activity was not well-known in the West because his papers were published in Russian and in that time (the Cold War period) were related with military subject matter of the USSR. In the next journal’s issue (No 3) an English translation of his paper [3] will be republished. REFERENCES [1] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Kazan_State_Technical_University_named_after_A._N._Tupolev. [2] V. Kiryakova, Editorial: FCAA related new, events and books (FCAA - Volume 17-1-2014). Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis 17, No 1 (2014); DOI: 10.2478/ s13540-014-0151-y; http://link.springer.com/article/ 10.2478/s13540-014-0151-y. [3] R.Sh. Nigmatullin, V. A. Belavin, Electrolite fractional-differentiating and integrating two-pole network. Trudy (Trans.) of the Kazan Aviation Institute, Issue 82 (Radiotechn. and Electronics) (1964), 58-66; In Russian. [4] V.A. Belavin, R.Sh. Nigmatullin, A. I. Miroshnikov, N.K. Lutskaya , Frac t i onal di f ferent ia t i on of oscillographicpolarograms by means of an electrochemical twoterminal network. Trudy (Trans.) of the Kazan Avi- ation Institute 5 (1964), 144-145; In Russian. [5] Yu.K. Evdokimov, “R.Sh. Nigmatullin: Trajectory of scientific creativity”. In:Nelinejnyi Mir (Nonlinear