I, Julia Romanenko, was born on the 23rd of June in 1984 in the town of Konstantinovka,
Donetsk region. My parents graduated from the Donetsk Polytechnical Institute in 1985, Galina Romanenko as a
mechanical engineer and Sergey Romanenko as a metallurgical engineer. In accordance with the graduate work
allocation system they were posted to Azovstal Iron and Steel Works and that's where they work now.
In my green years I was fond of drawing and modeling in plasticine. In 1991 I went
to the 1st form of secondary school ¹ 38 of Mariupol. My enthusiasm for drawing and modeling brought
me to "Lukomorye" art studio where I learnt to draw in water and oil colors, Indian ink, to work with clay and
do all kinds of wicker work. Training at the art studio helped me develop dimensional vision and the ability to
visualize a future model in volume and color.
In 1996 I went to Mariupol Aleksandrovskaya Grammar School ¹1 where I was absorbed by
mathematics and designing which became sort of the first step on my way to subsequent choice of speciality.
Designing on paper and then further implementation of the designed stuff into reality with the help of such
handicraft materials as clay, stone, paper, etc became one of my favourite pastimes.
While in this school I would constantly participate in all kinds of possible
activities like various competitions, issuing festive programs and what not. On the eve of every New Year holiday
our class would produce a festive programme for junior forms, each one of us making up his or her own part of the
programme, then we would all get together, rehearse and finally appear on the stage.
In 1999 I changed this school for secondary school ¹63. My class tutor Anna Sidorkova
helped me get adapted to a new collective body. I believe it was thanks to Anna Fyodorovna that I could show
myself in senior forms in a more active way. In the 9th form I took part in one of those panel games called here
"Brain Ring" on Alexander Pushkin's works as a team leader and our team won. In the 10th and 11th forms I actively
participated in Olympiads, best wall-newspaper contests, sessions of the club for the Light - Headed and Quick -
Witted both for the class and all - school teams.
In 2001 I finished school and maintaining family traditions, entered the Donetsk State
Technical University, the department of "Mechanical Equipment of Ferrous Metallurgy Works". Why namely this
university? Because it ranked in the first twenty of all Ukrainian establishments of higher education. Why this
speciality? Because I'm fond of drawing.
While at the University I managed to combine my enthusiasm for drawing with that for
mathematics. So in 2002 I developed a new method of solution of full equations of the third and fourth power of
a number, which interested the scientific workers of the Higher Mathematics chair. After thorough verification
of the proposed method by the professorial staff of the chair in 2003 I was delegated by the University to the
International Physics and Mathematics Conference (Sebastopol city) to deliver a report on "A New Method of
Solution of full equations of the third and fourth power of a number". The report presented by me there was
awarded the first grade diploma and published in a mathematical symposium book.
In my third year of study I took part in the "Miss of the Mechanical Faculty" contest
and even though I didn't draw the first place I was nominated Miss Charming.
It was my aspiration to know more, that is my curiosity, that made me take a master's
course. Frankly speaking, I'm not sorry at all. At first I chose the subject of my research as being quite
different from my traditional favourites or inclinations for that matter, just out of interest, but then I
realized full well that I hit the nail right on the head by picking the subject that was to my mind both really
engaging and critical for practical application. My project supervisor Vladimir A. Sidorov proved to be a
wonderful man, profoundly knowledgeable, light - hearted and easygoing in all his ways. Actually it was thanks
to him that I came to know much about equipment diagnostics and on the subject of my master's research.
The subject of my master's work is "A Study of two - high mill -1000 pinion stand
serviceability as a function of liquid lubricant application in the Rail and Structural Steel Mill of Azovstal
Iron and Steel Integrated Works".
Nowadays liquid lubricants are most commonly used in ferrous metallurgy. They can be
useful in a number of ways: for cooling, corrosion protection, sealing gaps and clearances and cleaning surfaces.
Proper and timely lubrication of metallurgical machine parts in the process of operation is a basis for failure -
free and long time service life of equipment.
The efficiency of lubrication is estimated with a number
of parameters that are next to
impossible to be checked while the mechanism is running. The main target of this research is identification of
the parameters that can be used to assess the efficacy of lubrication.
Proper application of liquid lubricants can help reduce the amount of lubricants
required to as many as ten times, prolonging the service life of equipment at the same time. In future I want to
obtain maximum possible results through rational application of liquid lubricants in the metallurgical industry.