Valery DunaevskyValery Dunaevsky - the engineer of mechanics appreciating the literature and poetry. He was born on December, 25th, 1942 in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. He considers, that he was not afraid to be born during this critical period of the World War II. Heis the author of over 30 scholarly papers in the international engineering journals; author and coauthors of several technical handbooks; author of a series of the original patents in the field of the compressor-and motors; reviewer of several technical magazines and editor of one of them. It is possible that a reader of this introduction rides the cars and trains of which engines and brakes were made using Dunaevsky' engineering input. Dunaevsky is also the author of the biography-historical novel A Daughter of the 'Enemy of the People' that was dedicated to his late mother. Read More Read Less