It is worth noting the valuable initiative of the Leningrad Order of Lenin Mining Institute, which publishes in its notes not small articles, but extensive fundamental works that comprehensively cover current problems of mining technology. Volume XXI of the Notes of the Leningrad Mining Institute is entirely devoted to a major study by Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Professor F. N. Shklyarskii, "Physicomechanical Foundations of Electric Mine Hoisting". A mine hoisting installation is a complex electromechanical system, the physics of which has long been covered in an extremely schematic and approximate manner. Professor I. A. Time was the first to pay attention to the mine hoisting system, but only the outstanding works of Academician A. P. German and Academician M. M. Fedorov laid the foundation for a deep analysis of the theory of mine hoisting installations. Professor F. N. Shklyarskii greatly deepened these analytical studies and for the first time, in addition to a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of lifting and lowering cargo, analyzed the physics of the electric drive of a mine hoist. Published in Volume XXI of the Proceedings of the Leningrad Order of Lenin Mining Institute, the remarkable monograph by Professor F. N. Shklyarsky successfully completes his many years of original research in this complex area of transport technology.
