Igor Borisovich Simonenko was born on 16 August 1935 in
Kiev. In 1947 he entered
Luhansk Machine-Building Technical School and later worked at factory. Since 1953 he studied at the Faculty of Mechanics of
Rostov State University and in 1959 graduated it with honours. Then he continued to study in graduate school, his scientific supervisor was Professor
Fyodor Gakhov. In 1961 he defended his
candidate thesis. Six years later, at the age of 32, he wrote his
doctoral dissertation. Simonenko wrote two monographs on the application of the local principle. During his research he made discoveries in the field of one-dimensional and multidimensional singular integral equations. The results were published in the academic press and were later translated into
English by The
American Mathematical Society. He died on 22 March 2008 in Rostov-on-Don. ==References==