The article contains an essay about the outstanding scientist - mechanic, doctor of technical sciences, professor Dmytro Vasylovych Breslavsky. A brief summary of the main scientific results obtained by D.V. Breslavsky in various branches of informatics and flight control, mechanics: the theory of creep, continuum mechanics of damage, the theory of plates and shells. The description of the scientific path of Dmytro Vasylovych Breslavsky from the student's bench to the scientific leadership of graduate students and doctoral students is given, as well as the path of the administrator, head of the Department and Faculty. Scientific achievements are presented in international cooperation with the Otto von Guericke Magdeburg University and the Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany, as well as cooperation with enterprises and institutions of Ukraine. A description of the applied research of devices, equipment, machines and structures is given. The article contains main scientific publications of Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences Dmytro Vasylovych Breslavsky. He is the author of 200 scientific publications, co-author of four monographs, two textbooks. Research interests: physically nonlinear problems of mechanics of a deformable solid (creep, fracture under cyclic and impact loads), finite element method, computer modeling of technical processes, IT-technologies in problems of mechanics.The result of many years of work in the direction of creating a theory of dynamic and cyclic creep of materials and structural elements was provided in scientific reports D.V. Breslavsky and O.K. Morachkovsky, made at world scientific conferences in Belgrade and Montreal and published in scientific publications.