Vladimir Andrunakievich

Vladimir Andrunakievich on a 2017 stamp of Moldova

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Andrunakievich (Russian: Владимир Александрович Андрунакиевич; 3 April 1917 – 22 July 1997) was a Soviet and Moldovan mathematician, known for his work in abstract algebra. He was a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences (1958), academician (1961) and vice-president (1964—1969, 1979—1990) of the Moldavian Soviet Academy of Sciences. Laureate of the State Prize of the Moldavian SSR (1972).[1]

Andrunakievich was born in Petrograd. He received his Ph.D. from the Moscow State University in 1947 under the supervision of Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh and Otto Schmidt.[2]