This book has been conceived to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the author’s working career and the 50th anniversary of his career at Riga Technical University. It tells about the milestones of his industrial, scientific research, academic, pedagogical, and social activity. The book presents a digest of the most important scientific achievements in the author’s view, as well as the bibliography of his most significant papers in different publications in Latvia, Germany, Russia, Belarus and other countries from 1970 until 2018. Certain sections contain information about the author’s co-inventions and patents, his scientific reports and dissertations. Bibliographic data is arranged into sections chronologically. Each section presents main scientific achievements and published works. The book provides information about main lectures delivered by the author in different times at other universities and organizations, as well as information about the educated and trained Bachelors, Masters and Doctors. 12 VICTOR MIRONOV IN SEARCH OF INNOVATION Many publications are also available on the websites http://rtu. ortus. lv and http://izgudrojumi:lza. lv/izg. php?id=34