Vladimir Arsentievich Rubanov

Vladimir Rubanov (, July 2, 1944 – December 7, 2023) was a Soviet and Russian statesman and public figure, Deputy Secretary of The Security Council of the Russian Federation in 1993-1996. State Counselor of the Russian Federation 1st class. Author of the methodological complex “Semantic Topology Knowledge Base”. Russian specialist in the field of organization and management theory, author of more than 150 publications.

Family Father – Arseny Rubanov, born in 1902, a native of Voronezh region. In the ranks of The R.K.K.A. since 1926, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. Fought in rifle divisions on the Belorussian front. Rank:

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Mother – Lydia Breeva, born in 1916, a native of Borisoglebsk, Voronezh region. A participant of the Great Patriotic War. Rank:

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Biography Vladimir Rubanov was born on July 2, 1944, in the village of Pervoye Sadovoye, Anninsky district, Voronezh region. 1963-1966 – service in the Armed Forces of the USSR. He studied at the Voronezh Polytechnic Institute at the aviation faculty. After graduation, having received a specialty “engineer – mechanical engineer in aircraft construction”, in 1970 he entered the Voronezh Aviation Plant. as a design engineer.

Professional activities He worked for more than 20 years in the USSR State Security Committee, ending his service as Head of the Analytical Department in 1992. with the rank of colonel In 1989 he became Assistant Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR. In 1990-1991. – Deputy Chairman of the RSFSR State Committee for Public Security and Cooperation with the USSR Ministry of Defense and the USSR State Security Committee. At the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, he was a chief researcher in 1998-2000. Since 1999, he has been consulting companies in the field of organization management. He is a columnist and author of articles in the Technology Forecast publication of the PwC Centre for Technology and Information.

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Vladimir Rubanov has been engaged in analytical research in the sphere of public administration (areas: high technologies, informatisation, intellectual and personnel potential of the military-industrial complex), national and international security, as well as the strategy of development of the scientific and industrial sphere of the country. In 1993 he was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Since 1996 – Acting State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 1st class.

Public activities Vladimir Rubanov has been active in the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy since 1993, was its co-founder and an honorary member of the Presidium of the Council. From 1994 to 1997, he was a member of the Council for Cossacks under the President of the Russian Federation. Since 1997, he was vice-president of the League of Assistance to Defense Enterprises. At various times he was a member of the Expert Council on International Affairs of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, and of the Public Council under the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia.

Scientific activity Vladimir Rubanov is the creator of the «Semantic Topology Knowledge Base», co-author of the programme with the same name. In 2022 the three-volume monograph «I See the Meaning» was published (volume 1 – Metaphysics of Meanings; volume 2 – Meta-language and Calculus of Meanings; volume 3 – Knowledge Base «Semantic Topology. Atlas of conceptual models of universal meanings). This work has received evaluations from a number of scientists and organizations:

Vladimir Rubanov was the scientific director of Inteltek («Centre for Intelligent Information Technologies» – «CIIT Inteltek»), which was included in Gartner»s Cool Vendor 2013 list in the field of information and master data management and the scientific director of JSC «Operator of Spatial Data Services».

He was a member of the Skolkovo Foundation Expert Panel. He participated in the work of the Scientific Council on Economic Problems of Intellectual Property of the Social Sciences Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

He died on 7 December 2023 in Moscow, buried in Troekurovskoye cemetery.

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Honoured employee of The Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information under the President of the Russian Federation (с 1996 года) Winner of the Professional Award in the field of information security «Silver Dagger» (2005)