On March 11, 2024, the Russian mathematical logician, philosopher, historian of logic and the foundations of mathematics and political activist who was prosecuted in the former USSR, Vadim Anatol’evich Yankov (or Jankov), passed away in Dolgoprudny, a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, at the age of 89. His health was seriously affected by at least four strokes that left him in bed for a long time. His death signals something like the end of a chapter in the history of Markov’s school of constructive mathematics.

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