Today it became known that at the age of 89, Lev Khaninovich Datskovsky, a Soviet and Russian scientist with a worldwide reputation, died. The inventor's body was discovered by his son, 60-year-old Alexander, when he came to visit his father in an apartment on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow. The man found his father already unconscious, not showing signs of life. Alexander immediately called the operational services to the place. The arriving doctors could no longer help the elderly man and only pronounced death.
– The police received a message about the sudden death of 88-year-old Lev Datskovsky in one of the apartments on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow. The man's body was found by his son, and he called the operational services. It was previously established that the elderly scientist died of natural causes. No traces of violent death were found on the body of the pensioner, – a law enforcement source told KP.RU
The body of the inventor was sent for a medical examination, which will establish the exact causes of death of the man.
Datskovsky Lev Khaninovich – Soviet and Russian scientist, engineer-inventor. One of the world's leading experts in the field of automated electric drives. With his participation, many developments of electric drives for mining, coal, cement and other industries have been carried out. Under his leadership, research was carried out on new promising types of electric drives and work on the creation of complexes of electrical equipment for unique gearless high-power electric drives.
Lev Khaninovich has 100 scientific works, including more than 40 scientific articles and a monograph. He received 22 copyright certificates, he was awarded the sign “Inventor of the USSR”. In 2003, by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was awarded the Honorary title “Honored Mechanical Engineer of the Russian Federation”.