A wake for the departed

Lyubov Truntova 30.09.1992 - 22.03.2024

On 22 March, on a black day for our country, the life of our young and talented colleague Lyuba Truntova was tragically cut short... She, along with more than a hundred innocent of our fellow citizens, fell victim to criminal, bloody fanaticism and senseless cruelty! Her whole life was open to her, with a future of happy motherhood, love and harmony in the family, creative work in science. But the terrible and criminal evil will of international terrorists interrupted her life at takeoff...

Lyubov Truntova was born in Dubna, graduated from high school in 2009, later, from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology with a degree in Computer Software and Automated Systems and in December 2015, she began working in the Department of the Spectrometers Complex of IBR 2 at FLNP. Thanks to her initiative and hard work, Lyuba in a short time became a highly qualified specialist, one of the leading developers of the information technology group. She significantly redesigned the data visualization programme, significantly reducing the amount of code and increasing the speed of its operation. She prepared a methodology for working with the GitLab version control system and helped other members of the group to master it.

The high working qualities demonstrated by Lyubov Truntova allowed her to be entrusted with the responsible work of connecting spectrometers to the central repository of experimental data at FLNP with administrator powers. She also successfully coped with this task. Lyuba is a co-author of four scientific publications, the results of which were presented at conferences at various levels and are reflected in two certificates of state registration of the programmes she developed. The beginning of her scientific and pedagogical activity was also promising. In the autumn semester of 2023, she prepared and taught the course "Introduction to Python" for master's students at the UC JINR.

Lyuba was an extraordinary person. Modest by nature, she actually had enormous intellectual potential that gradually revealed itself and shone with new facets. Lyuba always extensively responded to her colleagues' requests for help and often her advice and participation were decisive.

The life of Lyubov Truntova was tragically cut short in the prime of her creative powers; she died along with many victims of this criminal and inhumane terrorist act. All of Russia mourns the innocent victims with us. The memory of them, the memory of our dear Lyuba will remain in the hearts of our compatriots for a long time! We will really miss the young, talented and beautiful Lyuba, whose life was meanly and senselessly taken away by fanatical criminals indifferent to the fate of people.

We express our deepest condolences to Lyuba's family and friends and would like to assure them that they can always count on our help.

FLNP staff