Alexander Lvovich Fradkov, born in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad) in 1948, received Diploma degree in mathematics from St. Petersburg State University in 1971 under supervision of V.A. Yakubovich; Candidate of Sciences (Ph.D.) degree in Engineering Cybernetics from Baltic State Technical University (BSTU) in 1975; Doctor of Sciences degree in Control Engineering in 1986 from St. Petersburg Electrotechnical Institute. From 1971 to 1990 he occupied different research and teaching positions in BSTU.
Since 1990 he has been the Head of the
"Control of Complex Systems" Lab of the Institute of Problems in Mechanical Engineering of Russian Academy of Sciences. He is also a part-time Professor with the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University and with National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics.
He is the coauthor of more than 550 journal and conference papers, 12 monographs, 8
textbooks, holder of ten patents. His research interests include nonlinear and adaptive control, control of oscillatory and chaotic systems, dynamics and control of physical systems. In his book "Cybernetical Physics" (Springer-Verlag, 2007) research results in the emerging boundary field between physics and control are summarized.
Dr. Fradkov has been IEEE Fellow since 2004.
He is the President of the International Physics and Control Society (IPACS) since 2005, the Vice-President of the St. Petersburg Informatics and Control Society since 1991, a member of the Russian National Committee of Automatic Control since 1998. He is a member of the IEEE
Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board (1998–2012), Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Adaptive and Learning Systems in 2008–2011 and 2011–2014.
He organized and Co-chaired the First–Twelfth International Baltic Student Olympiads on Automatic Control in 1991–2008, IEEE-IUTAM Conferences on "Control of Oscillations and Chaos" in 1997 and 2000, IEEE-IUTAM-EPS Conferences "Physics and Control" in 2003 an 2005 and a number of other international conferences in Saint Petersburg, including the 5th IFAC Nonlinear Control Conference NOLCOS 2001, the 6th EUROMECH Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (ENOC 2008), the 3rd IEEE Multiconference on Systems and Control in 2009.
Prof. Fradkov is the Editor-In-Chief of the international journal "Cybernetics and Physics" (CAP) launched in 2012.
During 1991–2012, he visited and gave invited lectures in more than 70 universities
of 22 countries.
Main publications:
Fradkov A. L., Cybernetical physics: From control of chaos to quantum control, Springer, 2007
Fradkov A.L., Pogromsky A.Yu., Introduction to control of oscillations and chaos, World Scientific, Singapore, 1998
radkov A.l., Miroshnik I.V., Nikiforov V.O., Nonlinear and adaptive control of complex systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1999
A. L. Fradkov, “Review of the book by Pedro Albertos, Iven Mareels
Feedback and Control for Everyone (Springer-Verlag, 2010, 318 pages, 158 figures)”, Avtomat. i Telemekh.
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A. L. Fradkov, N. A. Babbysh, “Three-position vehicle control based on neural interface using machine learning”, Informatics and Automation, 24:1 (2025), 5–29
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I. S. Zaitceva, A. L. Fradkov, “Stability analysis of “bridge–pedestrians” system based on Tsypkin criterion”, Autom. Remote Control, 86:1 (2025), 74–85
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B. Suliman, A. L. Fradkov, “Analysis of motion separation by control for two identical pendulums”, UBS, 117 (2025), 171–187
2024
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A. L. Fradkov, “The 11th International Conference on Physics and Control”, Autom. Remote Control, 85:12 (2024), 1209–1211
2023
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A. S. Matveev, A. L. Fradkov, A. I. Shepeljavyi, “A historical essay on the scientific school of V.A. Yakubovich”, Autom. Remote Control, 84:9 (2023), 1017–1040
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A. S. Matveev, A. L. Fradkov, A. I. Shepelyavyi, “An overview of works of the scientific school created by V. A. Yakubovich on the issues of artificial intelligence and robotics”, Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Mathematics. Mechanics. Astronomy, 10:4 (2023), 665–685
2022
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Alexander N. Pechen, Sergey Borisenok, Alexander L. Fradkov, “Energy control in a quantum oscillator using coherent control and engineered environment”, Chaos Solitons Fractals, 164 (2022), 112687, 8 pp. ;
B. R. Andrievsky, A. L. Fradkov, “Speed gradient method and its applications”, Autom. Remote Control, 82:9 (2021), 1463–1518
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A. L. Fradkov, “Machine learning and artificial intelligence in the works of V. A. Yakubovich”, Vestn. St. Petersbg. Univ., Math., 8:4 (2021), 381–383
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A. A. Bobtsov, D. Peaucelle, A. A. Pyrkin, A. L. Fradkov, S. V. Shavetov, “18th European Control Conference ECC 2020 — 1st Virtual”, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 2021, no. 4, 161–168
2020
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A. Yu. Aleksandrov, A. D. Semenov, A. L. Fradkov, “Discrete-time deployment of agents on a line segment: delays and switches do not matter”, Autom. Remote Control, 81:4 (2020), 637–648
2019
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N. O. Amelina, O. N. Granichin, A. L. Fradkov, “The method of averaged models for discrete-time adaptive systems”, Autom. Remote Control, 80:10 (2019), 1755–1782
2017
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A. L. Fradkov, “Review of the monograph Pedro Albertos, Iven Mareels “Feedback and control for everyone” (Berlin–Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2010)”, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 2017, no. 8, 164–166
2016
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A. V. Proskurnikov, A. L. Fradkov, “Problems and methods of network control”, Autom. Remote Control, 77:10 (2016), 1711–1740
2019
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K. S. Amelin, B. R. Andrievsky, S. I. Tomashevich, A. L. Fradkov, “Data exchange with adaptive coding between quadrotors in a formation”, Autom. Remote Control, 80:1 (2019), 150–163
2016
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A. A. Bobtsov, A. L. Fradkov, “1st Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems (MICNON-2015)”, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 2016, no. 2, 162–166
2015
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R. E. Seifullaev, A. L. Fradkov, “Linear matrix inequality-based analysis of the discrete-continuous nonlinear multivariable systems”, Autom. Remote Control, 76:6 (2015), 989–1004
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M. M. Lipkovich, A. L. Fradkov, “About the necessity of Popov criterion for a special Lyapunov function existence for the systems with multiple nonlinearities”, Autom. Remote Control, 76:5 (2015), 801–808
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B. T. Polyak, O. A. Stepanov, A. L. Fradkov, “19th World Congress of IFAC”, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 2015, no. 2, 150–156
2014
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A. L. Fradkov, D. S. Shalymov, “Evolution Laws for Non-Stationary Processes that Follow the MaxEnt Principle”, Tr. SPIIRAN, 34 (2014), 14–32
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A. A. Bobtsov, A. L. Fradkov, F. Zhiri, “The 11th IFAC Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Control and Signal Processing (ALCOSP 2013) and the 5th IFAC Workshop on Periodic Control Systems (PSYCO 2013)”, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 2014, no. 10, 153–157
2013
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A. L. Fradkov, I. B. Furtat, “Robust control for a network of electric power generators”, Autom. Remote Control, 74:11 (2013), 1851–1862
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A. L. Fradkov, G. K. Grigor'ev, “Decentralized adaptive control of synchronization of dynamic system networks at bounded disturbances”, Autom. Remote Control, 74:5 (2013), 829–844
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A. L. Fradkov, “The splendors and miseries of scientific expertise formal criteria”, UBS, 44 (2013), 346–360
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P. V. Pakshin, A. L. Fradkov, “The 9th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education (ACE 2012)”, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 2013, no. 2, 152–157
2012
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N. O. Amelina, A. L. Fradkov, “Approximate consensus in the dynamic stochastic network with incomplete information and measurement delays”, Autom. Remote Control, 73:11 (2012), 1765–1783
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A. L. Fradkov, “Scientific conferences in control: The end or the means?”, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 2012, no. 9, 149–158
2011
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I. A. Dzhunusov, A. L. Fradkov, “Synchronization in networks of linear agents with output feedbacks”, Autom. Remote Control, 72:8 (2011), 1615–1626
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A. L. Fradkov, “International Conferences in control systems: Traditions and trends”, Autom. Remote Control, 72:1 (2011), 160–163
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B. R. Andrievsky, A. L. Fradkov, “Passification method in the problems of synchronization and state estimation of nonlinear systems over the digital communication channel”, UBS, 35 (2011), 20–58
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A. L. Fradkov, “The third IEEE multi-conference on systems and control”, Autom. Remote Control, 72:1 (2011), 168–172
2010
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B. R. Andriesky, A. S. Matveev, A. L. Fradkov, “Control and estimation under information constraints: toward a unified theory of control, computation and communications”, Autom. Remote Control, 71:4 (2010), 572–633
2009
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I. A. Dzhunusov, A. L. Fradkov, “Adaptive synchronization of a network of interconnected nonlinear Lur'e systems”, Autom. Remote Control, 70:7 (2009), 1190–1205
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B. R. Andriesky, A. L. Fradkov, “Adaptive flight control based on parameter identification procedure simultaneously with sliding mode motion”, UBS, 26 (2009), 113–144
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B. R. Andriesky, A. L. Fradkov, “Adaptive synchronization for a class of nonlinear systems under data rate limitations of the communication channel”, UBS, 25 (2009), 48–83
2011
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B. R. Andrievsky, A. L. Fradkov, Autom. Remote Control, 72:9 (2011), 1967–1980
2008
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B. R. Andriesky, A. L. Fradkov, “9th IFAC Workshop “Adaptation and Learning in Control and Signal Processing” (ALCOSP 2007) and 3rd IFAC Workshop “Periodic Control Systems” (PSYCO 2007)”, Autom. Remote Control, 69:4 (2008), 733–736
2007
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B. R. Andriesky, V. O. Nikiforov, A. L. Fradkov, “Adaptive observer-based synchronization of the nonlinear nonpassifiable systems”, Autom. Remote Control, 68:7 (2007), 1186–1200
2006
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B. R. Andriesky, A. L. Fradkov, “Method of passification in adaptive control, estimation, and synchronization”, Autom. Remote Control, 67:11 (2006), 1699–1731
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A. Kh. Gelig, G. A. Leonov, A. L. Fradkov, “Vladimir Andreevich Yakubovich”, Autom. Remote Control, 67:10 (2006), 1530–1546
2005
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M. S. Anan'evskii, A. L. Fradkov, “Control of the observables in the finite-level quantum systems”, Autom. Remote Control, 66:5 (2005), 734–745
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D. V. Efimov, A. L. Fradkov, “Oscillation conditions of nonlinear systems with static feedback”, Autom. Remote Control, 66:2 (2005), 249–264
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A. L. Fradkov, “Application of cybernetic methods in physics”, Phys. Usp., 48:2 (2005), 103–127
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A. L. Fradkov, “The Second International Conference “Physics and Control””, Autom. Remote Control, 66:12 (2005), 2033–2034
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A. L. Fradkov, “43rd International Conference on Decision and Control (IEEE CDC 2004)”, Autom. Remote Control, 66:8 (2005), 1357–1361
2004
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B. R. Andriesky, A. L. Fradkov, “Control of Chaos: Methods and Applications. II. Applications”, Autom. Remote Control, 65:4 (2004), 505–533
2003
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B. R. Andrievsky, A. L. Fradkov, “Control of Chaos: Methods and Applications. I. Methods”, Autom. Remote Control, 64:5 (2003), 673–713
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V. A. Bondarko, A. L. Fradkov, “Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for the Passivicability of Linear Distributed Systems”, Autom. Remote Control, 64:4 (2003), 517–530
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A. L. Fradkov, “How to Publish a Good Article and to Reject a Bad One. Notes of a Reviewer”, Autom. Remote Control, 64:10 (2003), 1643–1650
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D. A. Tomchin, A. L. Fradkov, ““RUSYCON” – Portal of Scientific Information”, Autom. Remote Control, 64:11 (2003), 1820–1825
2002
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A. B. Kurzhanskii, A. L. Fradkov, “Vth IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS'01)”, Autom. Remote Control, 63:2 (2002), 341–343
2000
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I. G. Polushin, A. L. Fradkov, D. D. Khill, “Passivity and passification of nonlinear systems”, Autom. Remote Control, 61:3 (2000), 355–388
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A. V. Pavlov, A. L. Fradkov, “A controlled closing theorem”, Differ. Equ., 36:6 (2000), 813–818
1999
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A. L. Fradkov, “Investigation of physical systems using feedback”, Autom. Remote Control, 60:3 (1999), 471–483
1997
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A. V. Lyamin, A. L. Fradkov, “To the Problem of Rolling a Wheel Vehicle out from a Pit”, Autom. Remote Control, 58:11 (1997), 1742–1751
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M. V. Druzhinina, V. O. Nikiforov, A. L. Fradkov, “Comments on the Survey “Methods of Adaptive Output Feedback Control of Nonlinear Plants”, published in Avtomatika i Telemekhanika, 1996, № 2”, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1997, no. 6, 219
1996
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N. E. Barabanov, A. Kh. Gelig, G. A. Leonov, A. L. Likhtarnikov, A. S. Matveev, V. B. Smirnova, A. L. Fradkov, “The Frequency Theorem (Kalman–Yakubovich Lemma) in Control Theory”, Autom. Remote Control, 57:10 (1996), 1377–1407
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I. A. Makarov, A. L. Fradkov, “Linearization of Non-Holonomic Control Systems”, Autom. Remote Control, 57:5 (1996), 615–625
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B. R. Andrievskii, P. Yu. Guzenko, A. L. Fradkov, “Control of Nonlinear Oscillation in Mechanic Systems by the Steepest Gradient Method”, Autom. Remote Control, 57:4 (1996), 456–467
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M. V. Druzhinina, V. O. Nikiforov, A. L. Fradkov, “Methods of Nonlinear Adaptive Control with Respect to Output”, Autom. Remote Control, 57:2 (1996), 153–176
1994
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V. O. Nikiforov, A. L. Fradkov, “Adaptive control schemes with extended error”, Autom. Remote Control, 55:9 (1994), 1239–1255
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A. L. Fradkov, “Adaptive stabilization of minimal-phase plants with vector input
and without measurement of the output derivatives”, Dokl. Math., 39:8 (1994), 550–552
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M. V. Druzhinina, A. L. Fradkov, “Velocity gradient and velocity difference algorithms in a nonlinear control problem: stepwise synthesis”, Differ. Equ., 30:11 (1994), 1719–1725
1990
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B. S. Lublinskii, A. L. Fradkov, “Adaptive PI-controllers for plants with strong delay”, Autom. Remote Control, 51:5 (1990), 658–666
1988
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B. R. Andrievsky, A. A. Stotsky, A. L. Fradkov, “Velocity gradient algorithms in control and adaptation”, Autom. Remote Control, 49:12 (1988), 1533–1564
1987
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A. L. Fradkov, “Design of adaptive control systems for nonlinear singularly perturbed processes”, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1987, no. 6, 100–110
1986
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A. L. Fradkov, “Integro-differentiating algorithms of the velocity gradient”, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 286:4 (1986), 832–835
1984
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A. L. Fradkov, “Ail-union conference on adaptive system theory and its applications”, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1984, no. 12, 161–166
1983
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B. S. Lublinskii, A. L. Fradkov, “Adaptive control of nonlinear statistical processes with an implicit characteristic”, Autom. Remote Control, 44:4 (1983), 510–518
1981
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A. L. Fradkov, V. A. Yakubovich, “Fourth leningrad symposium of theory of adaptive systems”, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1981, no. 4, 186–192
1980
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V. A. Bondarko, A. L. Likhtarnikov, A. L. Fradkov, “Design of an adaptive system for stabilizing a linear distributed plant”, Autom. Remote Control, 40:12 (1980), 1785–1792
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A. L. Fradkov, “A scheme of speed gradient and its application in problems of adaptive control”, Autom. Remote Control, 40:9 (1980), 1333–1342
1977
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D. P. Derevitskii, A. L. Fradkov, V. A. Yakubovich, “III Liningrad symposium on theory of adaptive systems”, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1977, no. 12, 160–164
1976
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A. L. Fradkov, “Quadratic Ljapunov functions in the problem of adaptive stabilization of a linear dynamical object”, Siberian Math. J., 17:2 (1976), 341–348
1975
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D. P. Derevitskii, A. L. Fradkov, “Second Leningrad Symposium on Theory of Adaptive Systems”, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1975, no. 3, 187–189
1974
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A. L. Fradkov, “Design of an adaptive system for stabilization of a linear dynamic plant”, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1974, no. 12, 96–103
78.
D. P. Derevitskii, A. L. Fradkov, “Two models analyzing the dynamics of adaptation algorithms”, Autom. Remote Control, 35:1 (1974), 59–67
1973
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A. L. Fradkov, V. A. Yakubovich, “Necessary and sufficient conditions for absolute stability in classes of systems with two integral quadratic relations”, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 213:4 (1973), 798–801
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A. L. Fradkov, “Duality theorems in certain nonconvex extremal problems”, Siberian Math. J., 14:2 (1973), 247–264
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