Full name: Ponikarov Ivan Ilyich _x000D_ PATRONYMIC: Ilyich _x000D_ CITY: village of Ulyankovo, Apastovsky district of the Tatar Republic _x000D_ DATE of BIRTH: 28.01.1928 _x000D_ DATE of DEATH: 25.03.2016 _x000D_ _x000D_ HISTORY: Ivan Ilich Ponikarov was born on January 28, 1928 in the village of Ulyankovo, Apastovsky district of the Tatar Republic. War 13-year-old Vanya met in the far East. The entire Ponikarov family was exiled from Tatarstan due to dekulakization. The mother died early, and the children stayed with their father. In the first years of the war, Ivan Ponikarov continued to work as a gold miner in the mines. In the 9th grade, he did not go, took a year and went to the Soviet Army. In November 1944, he received a summons to the army. Before 1945, there was no war with Japan, America was fighting with it, there were constant battles at sea. War was declared on Japan three months after Victory Day. To fight the Kwantung army, Soviet troops were transferred from the West, who were at war with Germany, they formed the first echelon of the offensive, and young far Eastern fighters entered the second echelon. Ivan Ilyich participated in the liberation of China, North Korea, South Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. During the war, Ponikarov was a light machine gunner and was awarded the orders "for the victory over Japan", "Patriotic war II degree" and 17 medals. After the end of hostilities, he was transferred from the rifle regiment to the newly formed separate marine battalion on southern Sakhalin. He was demobilized only in 1951, and graduated with honors in 1956 from the Kazan Institute of chemical technology. For 25 years, Professor Ponikarov headed the Department of machines and apparatuses of chemical production at KNRTU-khti. Ivan Ilyich-doctor of technical Sciences, honored worker of science and technology of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan, academician of the International Academy of engineering, Honorary chemist, Inventor of the USSR. Ivan Ilyich became the founder of the scientific school of theoretical foundations for the development of low-metal-intensive equipment, prepared dozens of candidates and doctors of science, published more than 250 publications, was the author of 80 inventions, editor-compiler of a major section for the encyclopedia of the Russian Academy of Sciences "mechanical engineering". Textbooks on machines and devices of chemical production, including electronic ones, created under his leadership, are widely used in universities in Russia and the CIS countries. On March 25, 2016, Ivan Ilyich died.