Timber industry / Forestry 
and Landscape Design

Research Module

Research field

Research Supervisor

Department

Institute

Timber industry / Forestry and Landscape Design

• Automation of technological processes in the commercial timber industry
• Upgrades of timber industry machines and equipment

Alexander Alekseev, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor

Tel.: 8 (8182) 21-61-91

E-mail: a.alekseev@narfu.ru

Department of technical engineering

Institute of Energy and Transport

• Satellite, aircraft and land monitoring of natural resources and objects
• Monitoring settlement of buildings and structures
• Mathematical processing and assessment of geodetic measurement results
• Generating objects cadastral registration using satellite images
• Positioning and evaluating volumes of sunken timber
• Recultivation of disturbed lands

Vladimir Rylschikov, PhD in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor

Tel.: 8 (8182) 21-61-25

E-mail: v.rylshchikov@narfu.ru

Department of geodesy and land registers

Institute of Oil and Gas

• Developing new and improving existing technologies of wood processing
• Testing paint materials
• Ergonomic justification of wood mechanical processing technologies
• Developing theoretical base for standardization of construction material performances
• Studying processes of art processing of materials taking into account traditional folk crafts and up-to-date engineering science

Pyotr Rybitsky, PhD in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor

Tel.: 8 (8182) 21-61-68

E-mail: p.rubitsky@narfu.ru

Department of material art design and technology

Forestry Engineering Institute

• Preserving Russian North traditions in wood products processing technologies
• Studying properties and quality of wood in the Northern Region
• Timber conservation and technologies of atmospheric drying of timber
• Developing new wood-based materials with programmed features
• Studying heat and mass transfer processes in timber

Vladimir Melekhov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor

Tel.: 8 (8182) 21-61-49

E-mail: v.melekhov@narfu.ru

Department of timber logging and woodworking technologies

Forestry Engineering Institute

• Developing recommendations to improve taiga silvicultural production
• Diagnostics of tree condition within the anthropogenic environment
• Forecasting the crop of coniferous species and introducing trees and bushes under the North conditions

Vitaly Petrik, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor

Tel.: 8 (8182) 21-61-56

E-mail: v.petrik@narfu.ru

Department of landscape architecture and homogenous forests

Forestry Engineering Institute

• Biodiversity conservation and forestry/economic activity research in the Northern forests
• Increasing forest productivity in the European North
• Merchantable structure of European North forests
• Modeling of forest structure and natural processes
• Allowable forest cutting forecasts and scenario development
• Satellite images decoding and practical methods development

Sergey Tretyakov, PhD in Agricultural Sciences, Associate Professor

Tel.: 8 (8182) 21-61-73

E-mail: s.v.tretyakov@narfu.ru

Department of forest assessment and management

Forestry Engineering Institute

• Studying impacts of harvesting technique on forest condition
• Studying improvement felling and forest crop forming
• Studying ground vegetation of natural and urbanized territories
• Developing planting technologies
• Introduction and geographic variation of coniferous species
• Studying impact of air-anthropogenic pollution on forest
• Recultivation of wooded lands after industrial development

Svetlana Lyubova, PhD in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor

Tel.: 8 (8182) 21-61-74

E-mail: s.lyubova@narfu.ru

Department of forest management and soil science

Forestry Engineering Institute

• Complex use of wood resources
• Analyzing and forecasting development of timber industry sector
• Standardization of products

Dmitry Bratilov, PhD in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor

Tel.: (8182) 21-61-66

E-mail: d.bratilov@narfu.ru

Department of timber logging and woodworking technologies

Forestry Engineering Institute

• Studying pavements of timber haulage roads
• Reconstruction of forest roads
• Studying impacts of timber industry on the Northern Dvina river flow

Evgeny Buryak, PhD in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor

Tel.: (8182) 21-61-51

E-mail: e.buryak@narfu.ru

Department of timber logging and woodworking technologies

Forestry Engineering Institute

• Studying and developing technique and technologies for timber harvesting
• Developing machine tools to prepare timber for rafting
• Justifying stand of timber on different stages of timber harvesting technological process

Vasily Derbin, PhD in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor

Tel.: (8182) 21-61-37

E-mail: v.derbin@narfu.ru

Department of timber logging and woodworking technologies

Forestry Engineering Institute

• Anthropogenic transformation of forest ecosystems
• Ecology of tree species
• The influence of herbivores on forest ecosystems
• Biodiversity of Arctic ecosystems and the change in the process of their development
• Ecological and physiological assessment of tree species
• The biological productivity of tree species
• Birds and beasts of the forest ecosystem

Pavel Feklistov, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor

Tel.: 8 (8182) 21-61-58

E-mail: feklistov@narfu.ru

Department of botany, ecology and environmental management

Forestry Engineering Institute

• Phytomass and biological productivity of the ecosystems of the North

Denis Klevtsov, PhD in Agriculture, Associate Professor

Tel.: 8 (8182) 21-61-58

E-mail: d.klevtsov@narfu.ru

Irina Konovalova, PhD in Agriculture, Associate Professor

Tel.: 8 (8182) 21-61-58

E-mail: i.konovalova@narfu.ru

Department of botany, ecology and environmental management

Forestry Engineering Institute

• Ecology of coniferae growth
• Diseases and pests of trees and shrubs

Vladimir Evdokimov, Ph.D.in Agriculture

Associate Professor

Tel.: 8 (8182) 21-61-58

E-mail: v.evdokimov@narfu.ru

Department of botany, ecology and environmental management

Forestry Engineering Institute

• Ecological and physiological characteristics of conifers on drained and fertilized soils

Valery Konovalov, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor

Tel.: 8 (8182) 21-61-58

E-mail: v.konovalov@narfu.ru

Department of zoology and ecology

Forestry Engineering Institute

• Status and growth of drained stands
• Biology of gallinaceous birds in forest ecosystems

Viktor Hudyakov, PhD in Agriculture, Associate Professor

Tel.: 8 (8182) 21-61-58

E-mail: v.hudyakov@narfu.ru

Department of zoology and ecology

Forestry Engineering Institute

• Assessment of tree plantations state
• Effect of water regime of soil on conifers
• Determination of wood quality
• Wood decay determination and investigation using Arbotom and Resistograph
• Time series analysis and presentation for dendrochronology and related application using tree-ring measurement station Lintab6
• Studying an evaluating wood properties of tree plantation using non-destructive testing methods (acoustic tomograms, thermography)
• Histometric characteristics of tree rings measurement and analysis of microscopic images using Axio Scope A1 and Imag-system

Olga Tyukavina,

PhD in Agriculture, Associate Professor

Tel.: 8 (8182) 21-61-58

E-mail: tyukavina@narfu.ru

Department of botany, ecology and environmental management

Forestry Engineering Institute

• Promoting sawn timber production using sawmill equipment

Gennadiy Prokofyev, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor

Tel. 8 (8182) 21-61-67,

Mob.: 8-931-402-76-68

E-mail: g.prokofjev@narfu.ru

Department of technical engineering

Institute of Energy and Transport

• Investigation of submicro- and nanostructures of natural fibrous materials for developing innovative technologies for paper and paperboard production
• Structure of residual lignin in pulp after cooking and oxygen delignification
• Strength and deformation properties of the pulp and paper

Jakov Kazakov, Head, PhD in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor

Tel.: 8 (8182) 65-00-92

E-mail: j.kazakov@narfu.ru

Pulp and paper technology department

Institute of Natural Sciences and Technologies

• Developing and justifying new methods of reagent-catalytic pyrolysis of wood waste for carbon and organic adsorbents production.
• Developing new areas of extraction from the waste wood and wood-greens of biologically active substances.
• Improving wastewater treatment technologies in the pulp and paper mills

Nikolay Bogdanovich, Head, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor

Tel.: 8 (8182) 21-61-76
E-mail: n.bogdanovich@narfu.ru

Department of chemistry and chemical technologies

Institute of Natural Sciences and Technologies

• Physicochemical properties of ionic liquids as new environmentally friendly solvents of lignocellulosic materials.

Konstantin Bogolitsyn, Head, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor

Tel.: 8 (8182) 21-89-48

E-mail: k.bogolitsin@narfu.ru

tph.agtu@mail.ru

Theoretical and Applied Chemistry Department

Institute of Natural Sciences and Technologies

• New methods of woodworking tool hardening to increase its wear resistance and durability

Igor Dumanskiy, PhD in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor

Tel. 8 (8182) 21-89-71

Tel.: 8 (8182) 21-89-91

Mob.: 8-911-552-09-33

E-mail: i.dumanskij@narfu.ru

Department of technical engineering

Institute of Energy and Transport