Roman Fedoriv was born on 05 September 1939 in the Carpathian village Bratkivtsi in Ivano-Frankivsk region in a peasant family. He experienced all the difficulties of the war and post-war, hungry times.
Roman Fedorovych was a man of work. His career was saturated with various bright colors of life. The chosen research direction was stochastic processes, nuclear transformations, elastic acoustic fields. During those years he cooperated intensively with a powerful team of developers and designers of the Kyiv plant “Geofizprylad”. As a result, scientific activity and practical implementation of the obtained results were crowned with the defense of the candidate's dissertation, wherein the most complex problems of the geophysical sector found their reproduction and solution. Due to his perseverance, efficiency and conscientious attitude to work, Roman Fedorovych, having worked for 47 years at the H.V. Karpenko Physico-Mechanical Instituteа, held positions from engineer and senior scientist to the head of laboratories of nuclear measurements (radiometry) and ecology.
Since 2008 Roman Fedorovych started to work for NADRA Group in Kyiv (today, Tutkovsky Group of Companies) and continued to develop his scientific and practical experience. The diversified scientific thought of Roman Fedorovych was evident in his daily activities. If the first scientific works were devoted to physical processes and apparatus for their registration, then later his scientific activity was focused on solving higher-order problems - the interpretation of geological and geophysical information. He was actively involved in the development of methods for the quantitative interpretation of the dynamic parameters of the acoustic probe signal, the method of monitoring the ecological processes of the Shatsk lakes of Volyn-Podillya, the Dombrovskyi quarry of potassium salts, current problems of isolation and evaluation of the industrial value of sealed hydrocarbon reservoirs. Together with his students, he prepared and conducted experiments on the physical properties of reservoirs contained in capillaries as the basis of a new geoelectric model of rocks.
These areas were reflected in numerous scientific articles, reports and lectures in advanced training courses.
As an expert, Roman Fedorovych is known not only in Ukraine but also in many foreign countries, where he appeared at scientific conferences and symposia. His creative work covers over 100 certificates and scientific patents, 12 monographs, more than 300 scientific articles. More than 10 PhD theses were prepared under his direct supervision. Scientific research was directed to the development of various acoustic and nuclear geophysical methods for the search and evaluation of mineral resources, physical and geophysical instruments and diagnostic equipment, in particular for medicine and ecology.
We are deeply sad because we have lost a loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, teacher, scientist, public figure, a great person and a true SON of Ukraine!