The Scientific Legacy of Academician Iosif Izrailevich Vorovich (On the 90th Anniversary of his Birth) เฌ Iosif Izrailevich Vorovich would have celebrated his 90th birthday on 21 June 2010. A member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, he was a leading Russian scientist who achieved much in the fields of mechanics and mathematics. Vorovich was a remarkable teacher, and he founded an authoritative school of mechanics both at home and abroad. A detailed description of his life was published in Prikladnaya Matematika i Mekhanika (V.A. Babeshko, A.V. Belokon', and V.I. Yudevich Iosif Izrailevich Vorovich. Prikl. Mat. Mekh., 2000;64(3)) and was given in a book of reminiscences about him (Reminiscences of Academician I.I. Vorovich. Rostov-on-Don: Rostov State Communications University: 2004). Vorovich completed the fourth year at Moscow State University just before Germany invaded Russia in 1941, and then, during the war, graduated from the N.Ye. Zhukovskii Airforce Engineering Academy. He then served in the armed forces, continued his academic studies at the Academy and defened his Candidate Dissertation in 1950. His subsequent research and teaching were closely associated with Rostov State University, to which he was appointed in the same year. A young Candidate of Sciences, strong and energetic and bursting with creative thoughts and ideas, he immediately became a centre of attraction among Rostov mathematicians. Junior member of the teaching staff, senior lecturer, deputy professor, reader, Head of the Faculty of Elasticity Theory, professor, Director of the Scientific Research Institute of