Mykola Polyakov is an Ukrainian scientist and rector of Dnipropetovsk National University.

Biography

Mykola Polyakov was born on 1 May 1946 in Dnipropetrovsk

Dnipropetrovsk

Dnipropetrovsk or Dnepropetrovsk formerly Yekaterinoslav is Ukraine's third largest city with one million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central region of the country...

, USSR. In 1971 Polyakov graduated from Dnipropetrovsk National University

Dnipropetrovsk National University

Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University is one of the leading establishments of higher education in Ukraine. It was founded in 1918. The first four faculties were history and linguistics, law, medicine and physics and mathematics....

 specializing in mathematics. In 1974 he obtained his Kandidat degree, in 1983 - Doctor (PhD) degree. During his student years, Polyakov was a Komsomol activist and a member of the Communist Party. Between1989 - 1996 he was the dean of the mechanics-mathematics faculty. Between 1996 and 1998 Polyakov was a vice-rector of the DNU. In 1998 he was promoted to rector. Polyakov is the author of more than 300 scientific articles, books and inventions.
Mykola Polyakov is the chief-editor of the scientific magazine "The Bulletin of the Dnipropetrovsk National Univerlity".
In 2010 Mykola Polyakov joined the Party of Regions

Party of Regions

The Party of Regions is an Ukrainian political party created on October 26, 1997 just prior to the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary elections under the name of Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine. It was reformed later in 2001 when the party united with several others...

. On October 31, 2010 he won the local election. Now he is a member of Dnipropetrovsk city council.

Links

• http://www.dnu.dp.ua/view/history
• http://dniprograd.org/ua/articles/sosiety/856
• http://www.nbuv.gov.ua/portal/natural/tmekh/polyakov.html