My father, Mikhail Zakharovich Solomyak, turned 75 in May 2006. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the Weizmann Institute of Science. There was a conference in his honor at Weizmann.

Below are a few pictures from his younger days, as well as photos of some of his teachers, colleagues, and students.

With his parents Zakhar Moiseevich and Zhenny (Evgeniya) L'vovna (before WWII)



With his wife Tamara around the time of their wedding in Autumn 1956



Komsomol'skaya stroika



The crew team (akademicheskaya greblya)



Undergraduate advisor: M. K. Gavurin



V. I. Smirnov in a class (T. B. Solomyak in the 1st row)



L. V. Kantorovich - unofficial graduate advisor (M.Z. was not admitted to graduate school; his documents were "lost")



O. A. Ladyzhenskaya and V. I. Smirnov. M. Z. was an active participant of Smirnov's seminar in Mathematical Physics and PDE. O. A. was the "engine" of the seminar. She helped M. Z. in choosing a topic for the Ph.D (Candidate of Science) thesis. V. I. Smirnov helped M. Z. many times; in particular, he was instrumental in bringing M. Z. to mat-mech LGU (Leningrad University, Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics) in 1964



The first autumn at the University (1964), teaching students in Mechanics



Teaching at the University



M. Sh. Birman and his wife Tatiana. Birman and Solomyak collaborated for many years and wrote together a monograph, a textbook, and 58 reasearch papers.



Relaxing in the summer on camping trips. In the top photo on the right: Victor Abramovich Zalgaller, whose ``mathematical circle'' (class) M. Z. attended when he was a high school student, and which played a decisive role in his choice of Mathematics as a career



Some of the Ph.D. students of M.Z. (presented to him on his 50th birthday):



Department of Math. Analysis (M.Z. was at the Dept. of Math. Physics at first; he joined the Dept. of Math. Analysis when he became Professor).



Conference in Varna in 1989



N. N. Uraltseva - long-time friend and colleague