Two hundred and forty years have passed since the birth of the great son of the Russian people, Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, the founder of advanced Russian and world science. In Northern Pomor Rus', on the shores of the White Sea, near the town of Kholmogory, Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was born on November 19, 1711, into the peasant family of Vasily Dorofeevich and Elena Ivanovna Lomonosov, who later became the greatest Russian scientist. Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, during his short life (he died at the age of fifty-four - April 15, 1765), made so many scientific discoveries and inventions that, perhaps, in all previous world history, one cannot find another person with such bold creative daring and heroic deeds. M. V. Lomonosov was a great citizen and an ardent patriot of his homeland. As a materialist scientist, he stood much higher than his contemporaries, the materialists of the 18th century. In life and The deeds of M. V. Lomonosov embody the best features of the great Russian people.
