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Alexandr Vasilievich Garmonov

Major shareholder and scientific director of Kodofon Group and Wipline Group.
Graduated from Voronezh Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Radio Engineering in 1973.
Academic degree: PhD in wireless communication technologies.

Professional activities

  • 1973-2005: Engineer, Head of Branch, Head of Department, Head of Scientific and Technical Department (STD) of the Voronezh Research Institute of Communications;
  • 2005-2015: Head of STD, Director of Research and Production Complex, Deputy General Director of JSC Concern "Sozvezdie" (Voronezh);
  • since 1997: Associate Professor, Head of the Faculty branch "Systems of Information Security" of the Concern "Sozvezdie";
  • since 1998: member of the Editorial Board of the magazine "Information and Security" at Voronezh State Technical University (VSTU);
  • since 1998: Scientific Director, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Wipline — a group of wireless communication operator companies;
  • Head of more than 40 R&D projects related to the development of technologies and equipment for the 3G and 4G cellular networks implemented for companies:
    • Nortel Networks Corporation (Canada),
    • Samsung Electronics (South Korea),
    • Huawei Technologies (Peoples Republic of China);
  • Head of more than 50 R&D projects ordered by Russian companies and organizations:
    • Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russian Federation,
    • JSC Concern "Sozvezdie",
    • PJSC "Yaroslavl Radio Plant",
    • JSC CNTU "Dinamika",
    • JSC "OPK",
    • JSC "Ryazan Radio Plant",
    • JSC "Electrosignal" (Voronezh).

Government awards

  • 1987: Medal "For Excellence in Labour";
  • 1996: Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", II degree;
  • 2001: Honorary title "Merited Inventor of the Russian Federation".

Copyrighted works

  • 217 inventions and useful models patented in the USSR (44 copyright certificates), Russia (124 patents), USA, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, South Korea, India, China (49 patents);
  • about 150 publications (books, articles in Russian and foreign periodsicals, and conference presentations);
  • about 20 software programs.

Membership in scientific societies and community organizations

  • since 2000: Associate of the IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA);
  • since 2005: full member of the World Academy of Sciences for Complex Security (Moscow).

Educational activities

    Educated 9 junior scientists for the degrees of PhD in Technical Sciences and PhD in Physics and Mathematics.