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Zinoviy Yakovlevich Lurye (September 16, 1926 in Gomel – May 31, 2020 in Kharkiv) – was a Soviet and Ukrainian scientist in the field of electromechanics and hydraulics. Doctor of technical sciences (1990), professor (1996). Participant of the Great Patriotic War, veteran of labour. Research area - dynamics and optimization of hydraulic systems of technological objects.

Biography
He was born in Gomel (Belarus) on September 16, 1926 in the family of an office worker. By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he graduated from the 8th class. In July 1941, together with his family, he was evacuated to Kurgan city. There, at the age of 15, he began to work as a turner at a defense plant of mortar armaments subordinate to People’s Commissariat (Narkomat).

In 1945 he finished Air Force special school #11 in Sverdlovsk, and then - Kharkiv Aviation Technical School (1947).

In 1947-1953 he served in various air units of the Soviet Army. Being in the army, in 1952 he graduated from Kharkiv Pedagogical Institute (correspondence department) and got a degree in Mathematics and Physics.

In 1953 he was dismissed from the army in the rank of senior lieutenant and for three years he worked as a teacher of physics at one of Kharkiv schools. Then he studied at the All-Union Power Engineering Institute, Distance Education (Moscow, 1957, VZEI / MIREA).

He worked in engineering positions at the Ukrainian Project Institute of the Electrotechnical Industry (Kharkiv, 1955-1961).

In 1959 he took a post-graduate course by correspondence at All-Union Power Engineering Institute. And while working as a senior researcher at Zaporizhia branch of the Institute of Automatics (1961-1964), in 1964 he defended his Ph.D. thesis on the automation of technological processes in metallurgy.

In 1964-1967 Zinoviy Lurye worked as an assistant, an associate professor at Kharkiv Automobile and Highway Institute. In 1966 he was approved as an associate professor of the department. There he did research on unsteady random processes of powerful excavators by means of computing technique.

In 1967-1985 he worked at the Research Institute of Management and Production Automation (NIIAP, Kharkiv). He was elected to the positions of head of the laboratory and head of the department by competitive examination. The major scientific achievements, carried out under supervision and personal involvement of Zinoviy Lurye at NIIAP, include the development of the technique aimed at the productivity increase of metalworking equipment through dynamic process optimization. This was a significant contribution to the development of control systems based on defined criteria. The focus was made on the algorithms used for one of the combinatorial optimization tasks (traveling salesman’s task) which made it possible to work out control programs capable of minimizing the time for technological process for a particular type of equipment. All this resulted in the development of recommendations as to dynamic relocation processes of work-pieces and tools when elements and assemblies of forge-press equipment with CNC functioned as an integrated system.

The results of the work were implemented into the industry to create a range of coordinate turret presses and to ensure their serial production at Chimkent Production Association specializing in manufacture of forge-press equipment, the economic effect being 1.5 mln rbl (1989).

Being transferred from Research Institute of Management and Production Automation (NIIAP), since 1985 Zinoviy Lurye worked as head of the laboratory at All-Union Research Institute (VNII) Gidroprivod (Kharkiv) from 1985. There, under his supervision, control devices for hydraulic drive systems of forge-press equipment as well as interactive system to solve multicriteria optimization tasks, etc. were developed. He founded a scientific school which focused on modeling, dynamics and optimization of hydraulic equipment systems of general and special industrial purpose.

In 1990 Zinoviy Lurye completed theoretical generalization and solution of a major scientific task on optimization of dynamic processes of CNC sheet-stamping equipment; he defended his doctoral dissertation.

From 1993 he held a position of a professor at the Department of Hydraulic Machines at the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” (NTU “KhPI”, Kharkiv). He took an active part in the promotion of scientific and practical knowledge in the field of modeling, dynamics and optimization of hydraulic system equipment of general industrial and special purposes. He was a member of editorial board of the All-Ukrainian scientific and production journal "Industrial hydraulics and pneumatics", Association of specialists on industrial hydraulics and pneumatics, and a specialized council for the defense of doctoral dissertations.

For his engineering, scientific and pedagogical activity Zinoviy Lurye was awarded medals and honorary distinctions: "Inventor of the USSR", bronze medal of the USSR Exhibition of National Economy Achievements; merit badges "Winner of the Socialist Competition 1973", "Winner of the Socialist Competition 1980", "Leader of 9th five-year plan", "Leader of 11th five-year plan" USSR Ministry of Machinery and Tool Industry; medal "Veteran of Labor", decoration "Excellence in Education of Ukraine". For his labor activity during the Great Patriotic War and service in the ranks of the Soviet Army, he was awarded medals: "30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy", "50 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", "Marshal Zhukov", "60 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945".

Scientific activity
Professor Zinoviy Lurye created a scientific school on modeling, dynamics and optimization of hydraulic equipment systems for general industrial and special purposes. Two doctors and 11 candidates of technical sciences defended their theses successfully under his leadership. He left a rich legacy: about 300 scientific works, 20 copyright certificates and patents, 5 teaching manuals.

Scientific papers
"Positional systems of electric drive of machines for panel production" // Electricity. 1973. No. 5;

"About optimal movements of high-speed mechanisms with a positional control system" // Machine Science. 1976. No. 5;

"Modeling and optimization of hydraulic systems": Teaching guide Kyiv, 1995;

"Modeling and optimization of hydraulic systems": Teaching guide Kharkiv, 2000;

"Calculation, design and operation of a volumetric hydraulic drive". Kyiv, 2006;

"Dynamics of volumetric hydraulic pneumatic systems for general industrial purpose" Teaching guide Kharkiv, 2008