Vladimir Andreevich Yakubovich (October 21, 1926 in Novosibirsk – August 17, 2012 in the Gdov region) was a notable Russian control theorist and head of the Department of Theoretical Cybernetics at

Saint Petersburg State University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the G ...

(formerly Leningrad University). In 1996 he received the IEEE Control Systems Award for his contributions to control theory, including the

Kalman–Yakubovich–Popov lemma The Kalman–Yakubovich–Popov lemma is a result in system analysis and control theory which states: Given a number \gamma > 0, two n-vectors B, C and an n x n Hurwitz matrix A, if the pair (A,B) is completely controllable, then a symmetric matrix ...

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*Personal web page (English

*Personal web page (Russian

*On-line C

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S. Abramovich, N. Kuznetsov, G. Leonov, V. A. Yakubovich — mathematician, “father of the field”, and herald of intellectual democracy in science and society, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 48(11), 2015, 1–3video

Vladimir A. Yakubovich, Automation and Remote Control, 2006, Vol. 67, No. 10, pp. 1530–1546.
Control theorists Soviet mathematicians Moscow State University alumni Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences 1926 births 2012 deaths {{Russia-mathematician-stub