БЛАГОНРАВОВА РАН BLAGONRAVOV MECHANICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF RAS MECHANICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES - THE LEADING CENTRE OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE IN RUSSIA A.I. Chudakov and professors I.V. Kragelsky, S.V. Pinegin, A.I. Petrusevich, N.I. Prigorovsky, M.M. Hrushov, ect. <...> Despite of complexity of a transition period traditions grounded by researches the of MERI will be specified scientists, were not only kept, but also further developed. <...> Fundamental continued on the following base directions: theory of mechanisms, machines and machines systems On 13 November 2008 we will celebrate the 70 anniversary of Blagonravov Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (MERI), which was established as centre for fundamental study of machine and machine engineering sciences of Russian Academy of Science. <...> For the subsequent years MERI became a leading research centre of the country and has been widely recognized in the world. <...> Fundamental researches and the developments of MERI have inter branch importance and their results find direct application in nuclear, aircraft, spacerocket, defensive, electrotechnical, chemical, transport, metallurgical, road build ing, heavy and easy mechanical engineering. <...> MERI takes part together with conducting Research Institutes and Design Offices of the country in the largest projects on creation nuclear and thermonuclear reactors (WER, BN, T-14, AST), turbogenerators with capacity 200-1200 MW. space-rocket systems (including “Energy - Buran”, Lunokhod, special assignment), nuclear submarines, flying devices and power plants (TV, IL, NK, ect.), automobiles (ZIL, GAZ, VAZ), unique aerodynamic tubes (T-128, T-1110), objects of a defensive complex, bioartificial limbs, automatic equipment -with numerical control etc. <...> The created unique experimental base allows to solve many urgent problems of mechanical engineering, arising by development of perspective engineering XXI centuries. <...> In the Institute were created leading scientific of school A.A. Blagоnravov, N.G. Bruevich, V.I. Dikushin, Y.N. Rabotnov, S.V. the academicians I. I. Artobolevsky, Serensen, K.V. Frolov, (structure, metrology, mechanics and control); problems of lifetime, resource, reliability and safety of machines; oscillatory processes in “man - machine - environment” systems; wear and friction in machinery <...>