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3. A. V. Topchiev Petrochemical Synthesis Institute in Moscow.
Located at 29 Leninskii ave., Moscow, U-71, GSP-1, 117912. (Tel. 954-
22-92; fax: 230-22-24. Directed by Academician Nikolai A. Plate.
(Plate, Nikolai A., D. Chem. S. Born in 1934 in Moscow. Russian chemist.
Corresponding member of the General and Technical Chemistry Department of the
Academy since 1974, and academician since 1987. He graduated in 1956 from
Moscow State University--a V. A. Kargin student. Since 1956, he has been
working at Moscow State University where in 1966, he was appointed head of the
Polymer Modification Laboratory. Since 1963, he has been working at the Institute
of Petrochemical Synthesis of the AN SSSR. Since 1985, Director of the A. V.
Topchiev Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Synthesis Institute in Moscow.
The institute researches the physics of reservoirs, reservoir modeling, enhanced
recovery techniques, and petrochemical refining processes It was established in
1959 and is subordinate to the academy's General and Technical Chemistry
Department. He formulated the principles of polymer modification through
reactions in macromolecular chains. He developed the statistical theory on the
reactivity of links in a polymer chain. He is presently director of the Institute of
Petro-Chemical Synthesis named after A. V. Topchiev (IPCS) located in Moscow.
(GSE 20, p. 206.))
Retrospect: Founded in 1934 as the Institute of Combustible Resources. In 1948 the
Institute of Petroleum was founded on the petroleum laboratories of the Institute of
Combustible Resources. In 1958, the Petrochemical Synthesis Institute was
established on the basis of the chemistry and technology of petroleum/gas
Department of the Institute of Petroleum. The institute is comprised of 27 scientific
laboratories with a total staff of 640 of whom 370 are scientific Personnel, which
includes four members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 40 professors,
doctors of sciences and 190 research scientists with Ph.D. degrees. The institute
maintains a design bureau and workshop which has 170 persons. The institute also
maintains a branch in the city of Saratov with 50 workers.
Scientific Structure and Personnel: Nikolai A. Plate, D. Chem. S., has been the
Director of the institute since 1985; Deputy Directors: Professor Evgenii I. Bagrii,
D. Chem. S., since 1991; Professor Vadim M. Frolov, D. Chem. S., since 1991;
Dr. Vladimir V. Volkov, C. Chem. S., since 1991; Scientific Secretary: Dr. Andrei
N. Karavanov, C. Chem. S., since 1991; Deputy Director for General
Management: Dr. Viktor A. Linskii, C. PM. S., since 1991; Director of the Special
Design Bureau: Dr. Albert A. Grigorian, C. Tech. S., since 1991. Outstanding
researchers in the fields of petrochemistry, polymerization processes, plasma
chemistry, and physical chemistry of liquid crystal polymers include: Professors
N. D. Zelinskii, S. S. Nametkin, A. V. Topchiev, V. A. Kargin, B. A. Krentzel,
B. A. Davidov, V. A. Kabanov, B. A. Dolgoplosk, E. I. Tiniakova, N. S.
Nametkin, M. M. Kusakov, N. A. Plate, V. G. Kulichikhin, L. S. Polak, D. I.
Slovetskii, D. A. Topchiev, A. I. Martynenko, L. A. Gudkova--all of whom hold
the highest national prizes in science and technology. Research thrusts in the
institute are many and varied. Oil composition studies being carried on under the
guidance of Dr. O. P. Parenago, D. Chem. S., and Dr. E. B. Frolov have
described new classes of hydrocarbons and nitrogen-containing oil compounds
(carbazole derivatives) and oil acids, gopanic acids in particular, are investigated. A
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