Director of the State Research Institute of Restoration died Alexander soberly

[Кирилл Сызранский]

MOSCOW, July 4 - RIA Novosti. The Director of the State Scientific Research Institute (Research Institute) restoration, researcher and expert in the protection and restoration of monuments soberly Alexander died on the 67-year life on Wednesday, according to the website Research Institute, which he headed from 1994.

The funeral and farewell to Alexander held in the church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin in Kosino Saturday.

"Under his leadership, the institute carried out research and development in the field of modern natural science methods of restoration, to build a new museum equipment for long-term preservation of art treasures carried out research and restoration work on the unique cultural heritage of the Russian Federation", - stated there.

In the restoration soberly came from the chemical industry, he graduated from the Mendeleev Chemical Technological University in 1970, and in 1977 he became a candidate of chemical sciences. Soon began to work in the conservation and restoration of cultural heritage. In GosNIIR started its activities with the scientific secretary, Before heading Institute, was deputy director of the Institute for Science.

A sober - the author of several scientific papers on materials science and restoration, also directed by the Academic, Restoration and editorial boards of the Institute, has been working in FNMS Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation in the section of monumental art. Until 2004 he was deputy chairman of the State Commission for the certification of renovators ministry, one of the five subordinate institutions of which is the restoration of the State Research Institute.

At the end of 2012 the Ministry of Culture beginning to reform their SRI - as a result of inspections at the Institute of Art and the Russian Institute of Cultural Studies was revealed weakness of these institutions. In the first institute soon gave way to the head - instead of Dmitry Trubochkin it was Natalia Sipovskaya, and the director of the second Kirill Razlogov proposed the idea of ​​combining scientific research institute on the basis of "humanitarian" Skolkovo ". Minister of Culture, said at the time that the project to destroy the institutions and combining them into a single structure is not, however, they were required to submit to the Office of the concept of their own development.