Date of birth: December 11, 1949.

Affiliation: Director of the Institute of Coal, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kemerovo, Russia.

Academic degree/rank: Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Academy of Mining Sciences, Professor, Doctor of Engineering Sciences.

Scopus ID: 6701650965

 Education and skills:

• Graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Faculty of the Tomsk Polytechnic Institute (1973);
• Candidate of Science degree in engineering, dissertation on the theme: Powered Roof Support and Its Interaction with Wallrocks as Rheological Systems (1981);
• Doctor of Science degree in engineering, dissertation on the theme: Methods and Means to Adapt Powered Roof Support to Dynamic Loading (1998);
• Junior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Powered Roof Supports, Institute of Mining, Siberian Branch, USSR Academy of Sciences (1972–1988);
• Head of Laboratory of Powered Roof Supports, Institute of Mining, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (1988–1998);
• Head of Underground Coal Mining Laboratory, Institute of Mining, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (1998–2010);
• Deputy Director of Science, Institute of Mining, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (2000–2003);
• Head of Laboratory for Science of Coal Machines, Acting Director and Director (2010 up to this date) at the Institute of Coal, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Research activities:

Vladimir Klishin distinctly focuses his research activities at innovation, with patenting and implementation of the results: he has put forward and justified a brand-new and no-analogue method and practice of directional hydraulic fracturing for hard main roof rocks in development headings and longwalls. This method is widely introduced in coal mines in Kuzbass. In furtherance of the studies, the method and facilities are proposed for multi-stage hydraulic fracturing of coal seams toward gas drainage stimulation. For gas drainage, exploration and process drilling, Vladimir Klishin has supervised engineering and manufacture of unique drilling rig models SBR-400 and SBR-300, which feature much higher drilling depth and penetration rate in hard rocks as compared with analogues machines.

Recently Professor V. Klishin engages himself with a brand-new approach to the Longwall Top Coal Caving technology with adjustable discharge of loosened coal in thick gently dipping and steeply pitching seams, which offers new design capabilities for powered roof support. Within this R&D project framework, many state macro contracts with the Federal Agency for Science and Innovation (RosNauka) and with the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, as well as numerous economic agreements with mining companies in Kuzbass are performed. Pursuing the R&D project implementation, a coal mining machine building cluster is created within the frame of the Research and Academic Centre Kuzbass.

Vladimir Klishin superintended the analyses and systematization of engineering solutions on open pit-to-underground mining transition at diamond-bearing kimberlite pipes of ALROSA. The research findings made the framework for planning and design of the world’s first underground diamond placer mine Solur–Vostochny.

Klishin’s research activities are recognized and acknowledged by Russian and foreign practitioners in mining. He participated in many R&D projects abroad and contributed to organization of large international conferences. His bio is included in the Encyclopedia of Russia’s Geologists and Mining Engineers and in 2006 Who’s Who in the World.

Academic and professional communities:

• Chairman of the Academic Council at the Federal Research Center for Coal and Coal Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences; 
• Expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
• Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Research Council Bureau on Mining, Joint Academic Board at the Geosciences Department, Task Group at the Ministry of Energy of Russia, Higher Mining Council of Russia and Board of Supervisors at the Solid Minerals Platform;
• Editorial board member of journals Journal of Mining Science, Vestnik KuzGTU, Gornaya promyshlennost  and Vestnik VostNII;
• Manager of R&D projects supported by the Russian Science Foundation and Federal Target Program;
• President of the Association of Kuzbass Machine Builders.

Awards:

• Miner’s Glory Badge 1st, 2nd and 3rd class;
• Honored Inventor of Russia.

The main publications:

• Klishin V. I., Anfyorov B. A., Kuznetsova L. V., Varfolomeev E. L., Borisov I. L. Disintegration of a roof coal while developing powerful seams with a controlled coal release. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2021, 823(1), 012010, https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/823/1/012010;
• Gerike P. B., Gerike B. L., Klishin V. I. Analyzing the vibration parameters of gas-cleaning units operated in coal and mining industry of Kuzbass. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2021, 823(1), 012012, https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/823/1/012012;
• Klishin V. I., Pissarenko M. V., Rogova T. B., Shaklein S. V. The conception of developing unallocated fund of subsoil raw material resources base in the coal mining industry. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2021, 823(1), 012048, https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/823/1/012048;
• Nikolaev A. V., Klishin V. I. Use of natural draught for improvement of airing efficiency in the oil mine production unit. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2021, 823(1), 012047, https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/823/1/012047;
• Klishin V. I., Fryanov V. N., Pavlova L. D., Nikitenko S. M., Malakhov Y. V. Rock mass–multifunction mobile roof support interaction in mining. Journal of Mining Science, 2021, 57(3), 361–369, https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062739121030017;
• Starodubov A. N., Sinoviev V. V., Klishin V. I. The development of simulating system of robotized technologies for thick and acute coal seams. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2021, 1749(1), 012040, https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1749/1/012040;
• Shadrin A. V., Klishin V. I. Dynamic phenomena prevention management in mines of SUEK-Kuzbass. Gornyi Zhurnal, 2021, (12), 88–93, https://doi.org/10.17580/gzh.2021.12.16;
• Klishin V. I., Opruk G. Yu., Teleguz A. S., Nikolaev A. V., Machrakov S. I., Pechenev I. A. Implementation of Directional Hydraulic Fracturing (DHF) in tacking geotechnological challenges of managing excessive rock pressure. Ugol, 2021, (11), 6–12, https://doi.org/10.18796/0041-5790-2021-11-6-12;
• Nikolaev A. V., Maksimov P. V., Klishin V. I. Results of testing of a new type of mine ventilation stopping in the potash mine production area. Bezopasnost' Truda v Promyshlennosti, 2020, (12), 79–84, https://doi.org/10.24000/0409-2961-2020-12-79-84;
• Klishin S. V., Klishin V. I. Paсker sealing–wellbore interaction in hydraulic fracturing in coal seams. Journal of Mining Science, 2020, 56(4), 547–556, https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062739120046848;
• Klishin V. I., Opruk G. Y., Pavlova L. D., Fryanov V. N. Active prefracture methods in top coal caving technologies for thick and gently dipping seams. Journal of Mining Science, 2020, 56(3), 395–403. https://doi.org/1010.1134/S1062739120036689;
• Klishin V. I., Anferov B. A., Kuznetsova L. V. Improving mining efficiency in thick gently dipping coal seams by means of top coal pre-treatment. Gornyi Zhurnal, 2020, (4), 41–44, https://doi.org/10.17580/gzh.2020.04.08;
• Klishin V.I., Opruk G.Yu., Salihov A.F., Pyaterikin D.V. Weakening of hard-to-break roof formations using directional hydraulic fracturing (DHF) when the mechanized complex leaves the set-up entry. Ugol, 2020, (11), 4–8, https://doi.org/10.18796/0041-5790-2020-11-4-8;
• Klishin V., Klishin S., Tatsienko A. Study of the Interaction of a Packing Device with a Coal Seam at Interval Hydraulic Fracturing. E3S Web of Conferences. EDP Sciences, 2020, 174, 01060;
• Gerike B. L., Klishin V. I., Mokrushev A. A. Availability Assessment of Mounting Groups of Mining Machines. Journal of Mining Science, 2019, 55(6), 954–961;
• Klishin V. I., Fryanov V. N., Pavlova L. D. et. al. Modeling top coal disintegration in thick seams in longwall top coal caving. Journal of Mining Science, 2019, 55(2), 247–256;
• Klishin V. I. Innovative technologies for thick coal seam mining on the basis of powered roof support with controlled coal discharge. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2019, 262(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/262/1/012027;
• Klishin V. I., Klishin S. V. Longwall top coal caving with powered roof support for thick coal seams: current condition and development trends. Vestnik TulPI, 2018;
• Klishin V., Opruk G., Tatsienko A. Stimulation of gas emission processes in boreholes using interval hydraulic fracturing in borehole local parts. III^rd International Innovative Mining Symposium. E3S Web Conf., 2018, 41;
• Shadrin A. V., Klishin V. I., Nikitenko M. S. and Trukhmanov D. S. Technical requirements to laboratory facility for stressed state rock massive spectralacoustic control method sensitivity depth research if front of a development heading. IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science 206, 2018, 012026, https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/206/1/012026;
• Klishin V. I., Anferov B. A., Kuznetsova L. V. Selective mining in coal beds with chemical elements of high value. Gornyi Zhurnal, 2017, (9). 71–76 (in Russ.);
• Klishin V. I., Rashevsky V. V., Artemiev V. B., Kopylov K.N. et al. Difficult roof: problems and solutions for longwalls in coal mines at the current technical level. Moscow: Kimmeriysky tsentr., 2016 (in Russ.);
• Klishin V. I., Zvorygin L. V., Lebedev A. V., Savchenko A. V. Safety and new technologies in underground coal mining. Novosibirsk: Novosibirskii pisatel, 2011 (in Russ.);
• Klishin V. I., Filatov A. P. Underground diamond mining in Yakutia. Kurlenya M.V. (Ed.). Novosibirsk: SO RAN, 2008 (in Russ.);
• Klishin V. I. Adapting powered roof support to dynamic loading. Novosibirsk: Nauka, 2002 (in Russ.).