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Mark I. Krivocheev
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MARK I. KRIVOCHEEV was
born in the USSR on 30 July 1922. He graduated from the Moscow
Telecommunications Institute in 1946. In 1966, he became Doctor of Technical
Sciences and in 1968, he was awarded the rank of Professor. In 1992, he became
a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Technological Sciences of the Russian Federation.
Mark I. Krivocheev is best known outside Russia for his work in the
International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR) of the International
Telecommunication Union. In 1970 he became Vice–Chairman of CCIR Study Group 11
(Television) and in 1974 he was elected Chairman. His function was to
coordinate studies in television broadcasting. The proposal for a world television
digital standard (Recommendation 601) earned ITU-R the Emmy Engineering Award.
Other recent texts of prime importance adopted by the ITU-R are Basic parameter
values for the HDTV standard for the studio and for international programme
exchange (Recommendation 709); Method for the subjective assessment of the
quality of television pictures, etc. in high–definition television (Recommendations
500–4 and 710).
He has received many
government awards and the USSR State Prize. In 2007, he was named laureate of
the ITU World Telecommunication and Information Society Award. The Montreux
Symposium gave him its Gold Medal in 1987, and the EBU awarded him a
certificate on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the CCIR in 1988. In
1990, following the adoption of CCIR Recommendations on HDTV, his achievements
were praised around the world: NANBA awarded him a special plaque, the
Australian Department of Communications and Broadcasting awarded him a
certificate, and France has made him a Chevalier de l’Ordre National de Mérite.
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