About the book: 2006 / The word "biomechanics" means "movement of a living thing." We watch with surprise and delight as seagulls flying behind the stern of the ship fall down like stones and in flight grab pieces of bread that passengers throw to them. We are delighted by the light and at the same time powerful movement of a galloping horse, and by the graceful curves of the body of a crawling snake. But in comparison with animals, man is a much more perfect unique creature in terms of variety, complexity and precision of movements. Even ancient thinkers tried to reveal the secret of the movement of living things. The first works in this area were written by Aristotle (384-322 BC), who was interested in the patterns of movement of land animals and humans. Problems of biomechanics occupied the Roman physician Galen (131-201 AD), Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Giovanni Borelli (1608-1679), a student of Galileo and the author of the first book on biomechanics, “On the Movements of Animals,” published published in 1679. The nature of movements and the mechanism for controlling them occupied many domestic scientists: I. M. Sechenov (1829-1905), I. P. Pavlov (1849-1936), P. F. Lesgaft (1837-1930), A. A. Ukhtomsky ( 1875-1942). But the real revolution in biomechanics was made by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bernstein. He not only created a theory about the motor activity of animals and humans, but also turned it into a tool for understanding the functioning of the brain. In 1996, the world celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of N.A. Bernstein, the creator of modern biomechanics - the study of the motor activity of humans and animals. Scientific conferences in the USA and Germany were dedicated to this date. The international conference at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) was attended by 200 specialists from the USA, Germany, and Japan. Russian V.P. Zinchenko made a presentation “Traditions of N.A. Bernstein in the study of movement control.” This is how it is described in Igor Huberman’s “Book of Wanderings”: “At both of these conferences there was his student, whom young scientists looked at from afar with respectful amazement, quite distinctly whispering to each other: “He knew him during his lifetime, this is fantastic!” Only Russia, it seems, still cannot realize that a genius was born and lived in it, suppressed and unrecognized during his lifetime, whose ideas have long been accepted in all universities of the world as classical." The writer I. Guberman is known for his penchant for the grotesque and shocking, but in this case there is sincere bitterness in his words. Indeed, in Russia, the homeland of N.A. Bernstein, the scientist’s anniversary was not officially celebrated; only the magazine “Theory and Practice of Physical Culture,” intended for a fairly narrow circle of specialists, devoted one of its issues entirely to him. The amazing personality of this man and his enormous contribution to world science deserve much more attention.