Viktor Avchukhov
Viktor Avchukhov (9th of August 1930, Bryansk Oblast, Russian SFSR – ?) – candidate of technical sciences, assistant professor of electrical energetics faculty of Riga Polytechnic Institute.
Viktor Avchukhov was born into a civil servant family in Bezhitsa (which became part of Bryansk in 1956). During World War II, Viktor was evacuated with his mother to Sverdlovsk, while his father served at the front line. In 1944, the family returned to Bezhitsa, where Viktor Avchukhov graduated from secondary school in 1949, and in 1954, graduated with honors from the Bezhitsa Institute of Transport Engineering, majoring in turbine construction.
That same year, Avchukhov was assigned to a teaching position at the Bezhitsa Mechanical Engineering Technical School. After working there for five years, he was transferred to the Bryansk Institute of Transport Engineering as an assistant in the Department of Heat Engineering, where he taught general thermodynamics to full-time and night students, and was also engaged in scientific research.
In 1961, Viktor Avchukhov moved to Riga, where he enrolled in the full-time postgraduate program at the Faculty of Electrical Power Engineering of the Riga Polytechnic Institute (RPI). In December 1963, he was hired as a part-time lecturer to teach a course in general thermodynamics. A year later, he successfully competed for the position of senior lecturer.
In 1967, Viktor Avchukhov defended his candidate dissertation, and in 1968, he was elected to the position of associate professor in the Department of Thermal Power Engineering. His wife, Rita Avchukhova-Ēķis, also worked at RPI. In 1972, associate professor Avchukhov was sent on a four-month assignment to the Faculty of Advanced Training at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
Viktor Avchukhov authored several dozen scientific articles and methodological materials, and supervised student internships abroad.
In January 1990, Viktor Avchukhov resigned from RPI and left Latvia, settling in Moscow.
By Sergey Chukhin
Sources of information:
Архив РТУ.
Augstākās tehniskās izglītība vēsture Latvijā. - 5. dsļa. - Rīga: RTU izdevniecība, 2017., 412. lpp.
