certain vehicles during the Cold War, some of which already originated from his earlier theoretical work during World War II, on the elasticity of specific material under specific circumstances such as different temperature, weight, composition etc. His work practically applied to anything from land-based vehicles to aircraft, rockets, and satellites. Membership in scientific academies Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences Academician of Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR Honorary Academician of Armenian Academy of Sciences Honorary Academician of Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences Foreign Member of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Foreign Member of Polish Academy of Sciences Foreign Member of German (Berlin) Academy of Sciences Notable awards Hero of Socialist Labour (1945) Stalin Prize (1941), (1947) Order of Lenin (1941), (1945), (1952), (1961), (1966), (1975) Order of the October Revolution (1970) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1944) Gold Medal of the Turin Academy of Sciences (1969) Gold Medal of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (1970) Cyril and Methodius I degree (1970) Lomonosov Gold Medal (1972) The Georgian Academy of Sciences established a prize named after Nikoloz Muskhelishvili. Main publications "On the equilibrium of elastic circular disks under the influence of stresses applied at the points of their encirclement and acting in their domains". (Russian), Izv. Electrotekhnich. Inst., Petrograd, 12 (1915), 39–55 (jointly with G. V. Kolosov). "On thermal stresses in the plane problem of the theory of elasticity". (Russian), Izv. Electrotekhnich. Inst., Petrograd, 13 (1916), 23–37. "On defining a harmonic function by conditions given on the contour". (Russian) Zh. Fiz.-mat.ob-va, Perm Univ., 1918, (1919), Issue I, 89–93. "Applications des intégrales analogues à celles de Cauchy et quelques problèmes de la physique mathématique". - Tiflis, Edition de l'Université de Tiflis, Imprimerie de l'Etat, 1922. "On periodic orbits in closed geodesic lines (abstract)". (Russian) Trans. All-Russian Math. Congr. Moscow, April 27–May 4, 1927, Moscow-Leningrad, 1928,189. "On some contour problems of plane hydrodynamics".(Russian) Proc.of All-Russian Math. Congr. Moscow-Leningrad, 1928, 262. "Zum Problem der Torsion der homogenen isotropen Prismen". Izv. Tiflis. polit.in-ta, 1 (1929), part 1, 1-–20. "Nouvelle méthode de rèduction du problème biharmonique fondamental à une equation de Fredholm". C. R. Acad. Sci.,192 (1931), No. 2, 77–79. "Théorèmes d'existence relatifs au problème biharmonique et aux problèmes d'élasticité a deux dimensions". C. R. Acad. Sci., 192 (1931), No. 4, 221–223. "To the problem of torsion and bending of elastic bars composed of various