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Valentin A. Koptyug (Koptiug), Valentin A., an academician of the General and
Technical Chemistry Department was Chairman of the Siberian Department from
1980 to his untimely death in 1996. That department is second in having the
greatest concentration of scientific institutes and scientists in Russia. Oleg M
Nefedov, Academician Secretary to the General and Technical Chemistry is a Vice
President of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the Chemical Technical Sciences.
Leading Institutes of the General and Technical Chemistry Department: By
far the most significant institutes in this department are the Chemical Physics
Institute, the Electrochemistry Institute, the N. D Zelinskii Organic Chemistry
Institute, the Elemento-organic Compounds Institute and the Physical Chemistry
Institute--allocated in Moscow. The Macromolecular Compounds Institute is located
in St. Petersburg and the Chemistry Institute in Gorkiy. The very small
Petrochemical Institute listing only two scientists in 1980 is also located in
Moscow.
Organization of the Major Institutes: The Chemical Physics Institute moved to its
present location in 1943. It is organized into seven divisions that have 16
laboratories and three departments. The Elemento-organic Compounds Institute is
divided into three division that have some 15 laboratories. The Physical Chemistry
Institute, founded in 1945, is complex in its structure with eight divisions and 20
laboratories. The other three institutes of the General and Technical Chemistry
Department are of postwar vintage and include: the Macromolecular Compounds
Institute in St. Petersburg, the Chemistry Institute in Gorkiy, and the Petrochemical
Chemistry Institute in Moscow. The ten-year period from 1965 to 1975 was the
time of greatest growth for the institutes under this department.
Subordinate Research Institutes:
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A brief description of each of the 13 institutes subordinate to the department in 1996 is
given in the order of the date of founding in the listing reproduced below:
1. Physical Chemistry Institute in Moscow.
Located at 31 Leninskii ave., U-312, Moscow, GSP-1, 117915. (Tel. 955-
46-81; Teletype: 207335 KLEONA; Telex: 411029 PESUM SU; fax:
952-75-14. Directed by Corresponding Member Iurii M. Polukarov.
Polukarov, Iurii M., D. Chem. S. Corresponding member of the General and
Technical Chemistry Department of the Academy in 1993. Since 1988, he has been
Director of the Physical Chemistry Institute in Moscow which was founded in 1945
to study corrosion, radiochemistry, electrochemistry, and ion exchange. He is
presently director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry (IPC) located in Moscow.
Retrospect: While tracing its origin back to the Electrochemical laboratory established by
V. A. Kistiakovskii in 1929 in St. Petersburg, it was moved to Moscow in 1934
and became the Colloid Electrochemistry Institute. It was established under its
present name--the Physical Chemistry Institute in 1945. Research in the institute
includes corrosion, radiochemistry, electrochemistry, and ion exchange. Iurii M.
Polukarov, D. Chem. S. has been the Director of the institute since 1988. Deputy
Directors for Scientific Research are: Professor A. K. Pukaev, Corresponding
member of the AN SSSR; Professor V. A. Ogarev, D. Chem. S.; and, Professor
A. E. Chalik, D. Chem. S.; the Scientific Secretary is G. V. Fedotov. The institute
is comprised of 52 laboratories and a large number of scientific workers and
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