The Man who made me cosmologist
After lunch I’ve got a mail from Yuri Petrovich where asked me to give a plenary talk at the annual PFU Conference. So when around 5 p.m. he called me I was sure he wanted to know if I got the mail. And when I confirmed about the mail, he told, that was fine, but he has something else to inform me. And he told sometimes ago Georgi Nikolaevich died at the hospital. Georgi Nikolaevich Shikin, my supervisor, who together with Yuri Petrovich Rybakov made me what I am today. I first met him sometimes in June 1991. On May 28 I came back from Bangladesh. When on April 22 I went home, I came to know that my father died three weeks ago, on 31 st March. So when I came back to Moscow I was completely upset. Moreover, the problem I was dealing with turned out to be much more complicated than we thought. So Yuri Petrovich, my teacher offered me to work with Georgi Nikolaevich. He arranged our meeting in mid-June. During our first meeting he gave me some of his works and asked me to exam...