Belarus persons and events: Stanislav Ostapchik

Stanislav Ostapchik was born on September 7, 1935, in Maryina Gorka, Pukhovichi District, Minsk Region, in a military family. He graduated from the Belarusian State University named after V. I. Lenin (1960).

In 1966, he received his master's degree, and in 1979, his doctorate. During the same period, he became head of the metallurgy laboratory. From August 1983 to 2002, he was director of the Institute of Physics and Technology, where he made an outstanding contribution to the achievements and development of the institution.

S. Ostapchik's main works are devoted to the creation and description of the physical foundations of phase and structural transformations in metals and alloys under the influence of intense energy flows. He studied and explained the hysteresis of recrystallization and transformation in a number of special alloys, and constructed a qualitative theory of heterogeneous thermokinetics.

Based on the developed theory of weakening processes and dispersion strengthening during rapid heating, important national economic problems were solved in practical terms, and a number of fundamentally new technological processes were created in the production of electrical and automotive steel, especially thin-walled corrugated pipes and elastic elements.

For many years, Stanislav Ostapchik successfully combined scientific work with managing research teams. For 10 years, he was the academic secretary of the Department of Physical and Technical Problems of Mechanical Engineering and Energy at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. The school of Belarusian metallurgists, which he founded, is widely known not only in Belarus but also abroad.

S. Ostapchik is the author of more than 140 scientific works, including 7 monographs, 35 author's certificates, and patents.

Based on the materials of the National Library of Belarus

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