Modeling Problems of Dynamics and Development of Scientific Areas of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics.

The paper discusses the development of scientific areas of mechanics in the research by the honorary professor of St. Petersburg State University, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation, and Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Viktor Sergeevich Novoselov, founder of the scientific school of analytical mechanics, space dynamics, biomechanics, and applied mathematics. He extended the basic theorems of analytical dynamics to mechanical systems of variable composition. Using variational methods, he obtained a number of remarkable results on the dynamics of controllable systems. In particular, he proposed a general scheme for constructing analytical approximations, which has been used to solve a variety of equations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]