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Yuri M. Smirnov was born in a family of clerical employees. His mother was imprisoned in 1937 for anti-Soviet activity and, as later revealed, was executed by gun shot. While studying at school, Yuri M. Smirnov was interested in mathematics and astronomy and after completing undergraduate study in
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Smirnov published over a hundred scientific papers, most of which are related to general topology. He is the author of fundamental results on the problem of metrization of topological spaces and in equivariant topology, as well as in dimension theory and in the theories of shapes, retracts, and
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degree with thesis Исследование по общей и равномерной топологии методом покрытий (Investigation of general and uniform topology by the covering method).
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