Fate had prepared terrible trials for him. Stutthof, Auschwitz, Buchenwald - these names still cause horror in any person. And Daniil Klovsky was their prisoner, and only thanks to an incredible coincidence of circumstances he survived. Almost his entire family: mother, sister and two younger brothers were killed in Majdanek. The events of those years are described by Klovsky himself in his book “The Road from Grodno”. Reading it, it is difficult to imagine what strength a person must find in himself so that, having experienced such things, not break down, not go crazy, but to spite everything or in spite of everything to achieve in life what D.D. Klovsky achieved.
He was born in Grodno on August 16, 1929 into a large Jewish family. Since childhood, he felt the full weight of his nationality. Anti-Semitism has sprouted very deeply in the minds of Grodno Poles. In 1939, part of the eastern Polish lands became part of the USSR, including hometown Daniil Klovsky.
Daniil Klovsky with his father, 1945
When the war began, on the second day Grodno was occupied by the Germans. Fear came to the city, it hung over the houses of the Jews. They understood that something terrible was coming, but they were simply unable to imagine the scale of what would happen. Two ghettos were created in the city. The Klovsky family ended up in ghetto No. 1. In 1942, both ghettos were liquidated. Their residents were escorted to the Kolbasino transit camp. Daniil Klovsky remembers how people walked in a column on the frozen ground. Those who lagged behind were “helped to gather their strength” with sticks. The Germans decided to mock the prisoners and forced the violinist to play and everyone else to sing along with him. As we approached the camp, a shot was heard, after which the violin fell silent. Forever.From the Kolbasinsky camp, the Klovsky family was returned to Grodno again, this time to the Bialystok ghetto, since the Germans needed Daniil’s father, a first-class mechanic. This profession will save the Klovsky father and son from the gas chambers more than once. In August 1943, this ghetto was also liquidated. Daniel's mother and his brothers and sisters were taken to Majdanek for extermination. He never saw them again. Daniel and his father ended up in Stutthof. Then there was Auschwitz. A camp where tens of thousands of people died every day in gas chambers. There he became very ill, which meant only one thing - death. But fate turned out to be favorable to him. He ended up in the infirmary, whose employees sided with the resistance and helped the prisoners as best they could. They also helped Daniel.
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In 1945, the Germans began evacuating the camp, and all surviving prisoners were sent on a “death march.” There was another camp ahead - Buchenwald. Here they were awaiting execution, but they were hidden by the underground camp workers in one of the blocks where Polish prisoners lived. Shortly before the Americans arrived, the Polish bloc was escorted out of the camp. Nobody knew where or why. On the second day of this march, father and son were able to escape and hide in the roadside bushes. It was from here, from these very bushes, that the path to a free life was opened to them.
Daniil Klovsky returned to Grodno and finished school. In 1953 D.D. Klovsky graduated with honors from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications. From 1953 to 1957 worked in the Grodno and Mogilev Directorate of the radio relay network.
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D.D. Klovsky in the bottom row in the center
Then he defended his Ph.D. thesis and, having moved to our city in 1960, began working at the Kuibyshev Electrotechnical Institute of Communications (today it is state academy telecommunications and computer science). For 40 years from 1964 he will head the department theoretical foundations radio engineering and communications (TORS). It was here that, having defended his doctoral dissertation in 1965, he would create his own scientific school. Under his leadership, many young scientists will become candidates and doctors of technological sciences. He will write many scientific works: articles and monographs; will receive 15 patents and copyright certificates for inventions; and according to his textbooks and textbooks In the theory of signal transmission and the theory of electrical communications, specialists in the field of telecommunications will be trained in Russia for more than 40 years. Merits in the field of science of D. D. Klovsky in 1971 will be awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor.
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On May 10, 2004, we lost our beloved teacher, Daniil Davydovich Klovsky.
In September 1960, we were students at the Kuibyshev Electrotechnical Institute of Communications (KEIS), where, fortunately for us, a young candidate of sciences, Daniil Davydovich Klovsky, was sent to work after graduating from graduate school at the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications (LEIS). Since then, he never changed his place of work for almost 44 years, of which 40 years constantly headed the Department of Theoretical Foundations of Radio Engineering (TOR), which he created, which later changed its name - the Department of Signal Transmission Theory, now the Department of Theoretical Foundations radio engineering and communications (TORS). From the first days of work at KEIS, Daniil Davydovich created a student scientific circle at the department, and we became his first students and followers, remaining so until the last day of the life of our unforgettable teacher. At the TOR department of the young institute, a creative atmosphere quickly arose, which our teacher transferred from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications, which raised him. Creative youth, students and the first graduates of KEIS united around Daniil Davydovich Klovsky.
The teacher spoke in detail about the formation of the department and scientific laboratory he created in his autobiographical book “The Road from Grodno,” published in Samara in 1994. This book is dedicated to the completely unusual, fantastic and terribly difficult fate of Daniil Davydovich Klovsky, a young prisoner of German concentration camps. During the Second World War, he and his father went through three ghettos and three Nazi concentration camps. Only incredible luck allowed him and his father to survive. The terrible events of childhood and youth formed our teacher’s fighting character, which helped him preserve himself in inhuman conditions.
Daniil Davydovich was an unusually capable, creative and hardworking person; he strived for knowledge all his life. In a short time after the war, he managed to master the Russian language, which he had practically no command of before, and successfully completed his studies in Grodno high school and enroll in 1948 at LEIS, the Faculty of Radio Communications and Broadcasting. At the institute student years his scientific work began under the guidance of a talented teacher and scientist, later head of the department of TOR LEIS, doctor technical sciences, Professor Alexander Mikhailovich Zaezdny, who created a scientific school well-known in Russia.
After graduating with honors from the institute in 1953, Daniil Davydovich worked for a year and a half as a senior engineer at the Grodno Directorate of the Radio Broadcasting Network, and then was the chief engineer at the Radio Directorate of the city of Mogilev. At the same time, he persistently prepared for admission to graduate school, passed the exams with excellent marks, overcame all obstacles, and in 1956, at the age of 28, became a graduate student at the Department of TOP LEIS.
The further creative fate of our dear teacher turned out happily. Having finally received the right to do what he loved, he devoted himself entirely to scientific work. Daniil Davydovich, earlier than many scientists, understood the great prospects of the young science - the statistical theory of communications, and deliberately chose the topic of his PhD thesis. As it turned out, this successful choice determined the direction scientific research D.D. Klovsky and his many students for many years to come. Over the course of more than forty years, it has developed scientific school D.D. Klovsky, who turned out to be not only a talented theoretical scientist, but also an excellent teacher, as well as an organizer of science. Under the leadership of Daniil Davydovich, more than ten doctors of technical sciences and dozens of candidates of technical sciences were trained. His first students are doctors of science, professors have their own promising students, who also accepted and continue to develop the creative ideas of our teacher. These scientific ideas were embodied in noise-resistant high-speed modems operating in multi-beam short-wave radio channels with deep signal fading. Early scientific works Daniil Davydovich of the late 50s - early 60s are also in demand abroad, in the development of noise-resistant algorithms for mobile communications, which are widespread nowadays. Unfortunately, due to the imperfection of patent legislation and the lack of high technologies in Russia, it was not possible to use the priority of D.D. Klovsky and his closest students to develop domestic cell phones.
Daniil Davydovich celebrated his 75th birthday in August 2003 at the peak of his creative and spiritual powers. He continued to confidently lead his department, give lectures to students, masters and graduate students, train scientific personnel, write a new textbook on the course of thermal power plants, almost until recently be the chairman of the Scientific Council of the institute for the defense of dissertations, and manage the economic contract scientific topic, write science articles, edit collections, etc.
The authority of our teacher, a full member of several Academies, a world-famous scientist, was recognized abroad. At the US University, Orlando, California, Daniil Davydovich was elected honorary chairman of the section on the theory of noise-resistant signal processing in stochastic communication channels. IN last years he and a number of his students frequently published their articles in the annual proceedings of the Orlando conference.
It seemed that the teacher was full of strength, and nothing foreshadowed his imminent death. We rejoiced at Daniil Davydovich’s cheerfulness and energy and hoped to work under his benevolent leadership for a long time. Unfortunately, no one suspected that his heart was working at its limit, that he needed to be careful, he couldn’t go alone on two long business trips to Voronezh and Moscow.
In Moscow, Daniil Davydovich suffered a severe heart attack in mid-April 2004, two clinical deaths, however, the will to live allowed him to quickly rehabilitate himself. It seemed that things were getting better, we were happy about this and expected him to return home at the beginning of May. However, Daniil Davydovich lived at home for only three days and on May 10th he died suddenly from a second heart attack. Until the last moment of his life, our dear teacher worked and advised his graduate student in view of his imminent defense of his graduation project. This graduate student had to call an ambulance, but it was already too late.
We can't help but feel guilty about our teacher; we weren't always attentive enough to him and didn't value his time. Now we are literally orphaned without Daniil Davydovich, and even after almost a year has passed since his unexpected death, we cannot fully believe that we will never see him again. Over the 44 years of work as a teacher at our institute, it began to seem that he and the institute constitute one inseparable whole, and this will always be the case. Despite our retirement age, we felt young, remaining students of Daniil Davydovich. Now we have become senior members of the department and are aware of our responsibility, if possible, to preserve the established traditions and scientific atmosphere in the team. We understand that it is impossible to replace a dear teacher. To the best of our ability, we must prepare a scientific succession, passing on to our students everything that Daniil Davydovich Klovsky taught us in his time.
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