Trushnikov Vyacheslav Evstafievich. Born 20.01.1952 Trushnikov V.E. graduated from the Kuibyshev Polytechnic Institute in 1977 with a degree in mechanical engineering. After graduating from the institute, he worked as a design engineer for the design of industrial robots at the Volzhsky Automobile Plant and took part in setting up robots for automatic lines of welding robots. Since 1983, he worked at the Volzhsky branch of the Leningrad Research and Design Institute of the Chemical Industry. Vyacheslav Evstafievich’s area of research included analysis and improvement of the efficiency of industrial enterprises focused on such industries as metallurgy, mining and processing of coal, apatite-nepheline ore. In 1988, at the Leningrad Institute of Technology, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences. I got a part-time job at the Togliatti Polytechnic Institute, then at the Togliatti State University. In 1993, he was awarded the academic title of associate professor. In 2012, after defending his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences at the Moscow State University of Environmental Management, he came to work at the St. Petersburg Mining University. In 2020 he received the title of professor. S is actively involved in scientific work and is the author of more than 100 scientific papers and patents. The annual volume of scientific research exceeds 1 million.