Genady Cherepanov is the author of Mechanics of Brittle Fracture, McGrawHill, 1978, 950 pp, Methods of Fracture Mechanics:Solid Matter Physics, Kluwer, 1997, 310 pp, and many other books; he also edited the encyclopedic treatise FRACTURE, 1998, Krieger, 870 pp. He was first to introduce invariant integrals in fracture mechanics in 1967, and later in hydrodynamics, electrodynamics, and cosmology.