Professor Oleg Georgievich Smolyanov of the Department of Function Theory and Functional Analysis in the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University, a doctor of the physical and mathematical sciences and one of the best-known experts in infinite-dimensional analysis, turned 70 years of age on 8 February 2008. Smolyanov was born in Russia’s northern capital, but spent his childhood years (including the first years of World War II) in Yaroslavl’, to which his family was evacuated at the beginning of the war. After moving to Moscow and graduating from secondary school there with a gold medal, he entered the Moscow Aviation Institute, which in those first years of triumphs of the Russian space programme was among the most popular institutions of higher education in the country and an object of aspiration for talented youth. In 1960, while still a student at the Aviation Institute, he began studies as an external student of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University (MSU). After completing his courses there in two and a half years (while working at the same time at a radio engineering factory), he began graduate studies in 1963 in the Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics (with G.E. Shilov as advisor). That same year the journal Radiotekhnika i Èlektronika published his first two research papers, concerned with applied problems. But already then Smolyanov was intrigued by problems relating to analysis in infinite-dimensional spaces. He developed into a mathematician by participating in the seminars of S. V. Fomin and G. E. Shilov. In his first two mathematical papers, published in 1964 and 1965, he solved a difficult problem in the theory of topological vector spaces. In 1966 he defended his Ph.D. thesis, in which he obtained the first results in a new area of infinite-dimensional analysis which is now actively developing. In the same year he started teaching in the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of MSU. In 1983 Smolyanov defended his D.Sc. thesis. He is the author of more than 180 research papers, including 5 surveys in Uspekhi Matematichaskikh Nauk (translated as Russian Mathematical Surveys) and 3 monographs (O. G. Smolyanov, Analysis in linear topological spaces and applications, MSU, Moscow 1979; O.G. Smolyanov and E.T. Shavgulidze, Path

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