Alexander N. Guz was born on January 29, 1939, in Ichnia of Chernigov region of Ukraine and graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Kyiv State University in 1961. He is working at the S.P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics of the NASU (the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) since 1960, receiving an appointment as Head of the Department of Dynamics and Stability of Continuum Media (1967) and serving as Director of the S.P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics of the NASU (from 1976 until present). He received the Candidate of Sciences degree (Ph.D.) (1962) and the Doctor of Sciences degree (1965). He was named Professor (1969). He is Academician of the NASU (1978), Member of the Academia Europaea (1992), Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences (1997), Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (2001), Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2002). His principal scientific results have been obtained in mechanics of deformable solids and related problems of continuum mechanics: the three-dimensional theory of stability of deformable bodies, the theory of propagation and diffraction of elastic waves in multi-connected bodies and bodies with initial stresses, stress concentration around holes in shells, mechanics of composites materials and structural members utilizing them, aerohydroelasticity, non-classical problems of fracture mechanics, rock mechanics, dynamics of viscous compressible liquid, contact problems, mechanics of nanocomposites and non-destructive methods of stress determination. He is the author or co-author of 71 books (including 20 solos) and about 1000 scientific papers (including more than 400 solo). He has trained 36 Doctors and about 100 Candidates of Sciences. His awards (prizes) include Medal BLAISE PASCAL of the European Academy of Sciences (2007), Medal LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT of the ICCEF (Int. Conf. on Comput. & Exper. Eng. and Sciences) (2012), DIPLOMA DI MERITO CON MEDALIA D'ORO of the European Scientific - Industrial Chamber (2013), Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award (2017), Order "HONOR" of the Kremlin Fund (Russia) (2007), State Prize of USSR (1985), State Prizes of Ukraine (1979, 1988), V.I.Vernadsky GOLD MEDAL of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2014), Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1979, 1983, 2000, 2014, 2016, 2017). He serves in the editorial boards of several international scientific journals and is the Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific journal Prikladnaya Mekhanika (International Applied Mechanics) (since 1976). He is the Chairman of the National Committee of Ukraine of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (since 1993). Multi-volume collective fundamental books: Methods of Shells Theory in five volumes (1980-1982), Mechanics of Composites Materials and Structural Members in three volumes (1982-1983), Three-Dimensional Problems of the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity in six volumes (1984-1986), Mechanics of Coupled Fields in Constructive Members in five volumes (1987-1989), Non-Classical Problems of Fracture Mechanics in four volumes (1990-1994), Mechanics of Composites in twelve volumes (1993-2003), Advances of Mechanics in six volumes (2005-2012), Modern problems of mechanics in three volumes (2016-2018) were supervised and co-authored by Prof. A.N. Guz. Some main scientific results of A.N.GUZ were presented (in English) in book "SERIES 'Classics of World Science,'volume 11, Olexander M GUZ" (TIMPANI, Ukraine, 2006, 521p.). This book is volume 11 of series "Classics of World Science" publishing by Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Ukraine. Viacheslav L. Bogdanov was born on November 25, 1965, in Kyiv Region of Ukraine and graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Kyiv State University in 1989. He is working at the S.P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) since 19
