Shipluk Alexander Nikolaevich

Shipluk Alexander Nikolaevich

Biography

Shiplyuk was born on September 8, 1966 in the city of Barabinsk, Novosibirsk Region.

Education

He graduated from the Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute (now NSTU) with a degree in aerohydrodynamics.

Biography

1990-2007

Since 1990, he worked at the ITPM SB RAS, where he went from a research trainee to the head of the laboratory of hypersonic technologies and the director of the institute. A specialist in the field of high-speed aerogasdynamics and experimental methods of gas flow research since 2007 gave at the Department of Aerohydrodynamics of NSTU an annual lecture course "Methods of Aerophysical Experiment," semester lecture courses "Methods of optimization in ballistics and aerodynamics problems," "Modern problems of ballistics and hydroaerodynamics," led the thesis of students, graduate students, etc.

2024: Sentence - 15 years in prison for treason

On September 3, 2024, the Moscow City Court appointed 15 years in a strict regime colony to the physicist, former director, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics named after Khristianovich of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ITPM SB RAS) correspondent member RAS Alexander Shiplyuk. He was found guilty of state treason.

Details of the charge have not been released because the case has a "top secret" neck. According to Interfax, Shiplyuk was found guilty of committing two episodes of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). We are talking, in particular, about the transfer of secret data to China at a scientific conference in 2017: developments related to hypersonic weapons are mentioned.

According to the newspaper, the Kommersant operational development of Shiplyuk was carried out by employees of the economic security service, although usually other units take over the identification of unauthorized contacts of scientists with foreign special services. FSB In the summer of 2022, Shiplyuk was detained Novosibirsk in and transferred to Moscow, where he was charged and, with the sanction of the court, placed in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. The prosecution asked for the maximum possible punishment for Shiplyuk - 20 years in prison. The scientist did not admit his guilt.^[1]

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