Mark Babushkin
Babushkin, Mark Nikolaevich
Born Dec. 27, 1924, in the stanitsa (large cossack village) of Kachalinskaia, Ilovlia Raion, Volgograd Oblast. Soviet scientist in control problems. Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1976). Member of the CPSU since 1947.
Babushkin graduated from the F. E. Dzerzhinskii Higher Naval School in 1947 and from the A. N. Krylov Naval Academy of Naval Architecture and Armaments in 1954. He was on the teaching staff at the academy from 1954 to 1972, becoming a professor in 1968. In 1973 he was appointed director of the Khabarovsk Scientific Research Integrated Institute of the Far East Scientific Center of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Babushkin’s main works deal with the theory of multivariable control systems and integrated ship automation, as well as with the theory of analog computers.