In the summer of 1941, after the beginning of the war, the Commission on the defensive installations construction was created by the city government. Some academicians and prominent scientists became members (almost everyone was from the Polytechnical Institute), but only Boris Grigoryevich was involved with construction engineering. Practically, he became the supervisor of the work for the commission. Simultaneously, Boris Grigoryevich was the city engineering defense department experts group head. Later, he was evacuated to Moscow, where he joined the military engineering commission of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Hard non-stop work was undermining the scientist's health. Not long after the Great Victory, Galerkin died in Moscow on 12 July 1945. Mathematical contributions Galerkin's name is attached to the finite element method, which is a way to numerically solve partial differential equations. Galerkin methods include: The Galerkin method - A method for approximating the solution to a problem in weak form. Most well-known in the finite element method The Petrov–Galerkin method The streamline upwind Petrov–Galerkin method (SUPG) The Discontinuous Galerkin method References External links Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical Universitys Galerkin biography 1871 births 1945 deaths People from Polotsk People from Polotsky Uyezd Belarusian Jews 20th-century Belarusian mathematicians Soviet mathematicians Soviet engineers Academic staff of Military Engineering-Technical University Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology alumni Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Stalin Prize winners Recipients of the Order of Lenin