Later the Minin family moved to Nagishy (Lebyazhy Usad) of Gorlovka village settlement in Skopin district of Ryazan Oblast.

Minin initiated a new direction for the research, i.e. experimental study of solitary wave propagation features in the shallows as applied to tsunami.

[7] In 1963 Minin was conferred a degree of a senior research assistant in chemical physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.

In 1973 the Institute proceeded with the execution of additional objectives set by the head organization of the Ministry of Machine-Building i.e. development of aircraft-launch rockets.

[10] In the late 1970s – the early 1980s joint works with the laboratory of millimeter and submillimeter-wave metrics (Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union) were started.

These were the research works on millimeter and submillimeter wave range for transmission and reflection spectra of the explosives and their simulators.

Minin were started to develop high-quality non-aberrational quasi-optical lens of submillimeter-wave range on the basis of theoretical insights and the unique equipment of the Institute of Applied Physics.

At the same period pioneering investigations were carried out as concerns the effects of anomalous back scattering of dielectric particles and aerospace monitoring of the environment (1970s – 1980s).

[11] For more than 30 years (up to 1996) Minin was a scientific advisor, general director and chief designer of the Institute of Applied Physics.

[15][16] Minin was also at the head of the research works for developing the techniques and algorithms for numerical simulation of physical and mechanical processes.

Being in charge of the investigations Minin took part in the works on adaptation of the developed algorithms and creation of the brand new parallel ones for numerical simulation, implemented on the basis of upgraded 128-processor machine PS-2000 as all-in-one decision field.

[21] By 1990-91 all the TV centres of the USSR were equipped with video-computer graphic stations GAMMA-T. By means of the developed software-hardware complex the problems of meteoroid protection for spaceship “Vega” (in “Vega-Galley” project) were solved.

[26][27] Under Minin's guidance the works were conducted on the investigation and production of rotating hollow charge shells with a record depth of penetration.

[32][33][34][35] The welder developed for aluminum-copper nipples of refrigerator sets and the technique for electric-and-magnetic welding were patented by many countries.

[36][37][38] For the first time a complex of the radar and optoelectronic close-in jammers “Smeliy” (Brave) PK-16 (Russian:ПК-16 [ru])) was produced.