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Natural tularemia foci in the territory of the Khanty-Mansiisk Autonomous District - Yugra are still active and sustainable ones despite of the extended periods of epidemiological welfare. Agent reservoir is the water vole. However, recently tularemia agent has been detected in the northern red-backed vole and common red-toothed shrew. Khanty-Mansiisk town, Berezovsky, Khanty-Mansiisk, Kondinsky, and Oktyabr’sky Regions are situated in the territory of the most active foci. Serious outbreaks of infection among the population occur with an interval up to 30 years. Their transmissibility preconditions the scale and intensiveness. All cohorts are under the risk of exposure, irrespective of the age and occupation, including the infants. The paper discusses tularemia outbreak impact on the population of Khanty-Mansiisk and the Khanty-Mansiisk Region in July-October, 2013. Casualty toll is 1005 cases. Given is a brief retrospective analysis of epidemiological situation on tularemia since 1930-s up to the onset of the outbreak under investigation. Described is the experience in management of the response activities.

This articles examines the use of the process of identification for the study of different objects and subsequent system automation. Modified chemical vapor deposition (MCVD) is discussed as an illustration of a process that can be automated with the use of parametric identification, and the transfer function of this process is obtained. The operation of heating semifinished products on an MCVD lathe is examined as a specific example. The MCVD method makes it possible to obtain semifinished products for drawing optical fibers and is based on the deposition of oxides of silicon on the inside surface of a glass tube by thermophoresis. The tube subsequently vitrifies and “collapses” into the rod/semifinished product . Transient response curves are obtained during the experiment and averaged for use in parametric identification. The transfer function of the automation object is also obtained.