Separate departments of electrochemistry are very rare in classical universities where our discipline usually falls under the general umbrella of either analytical or physical chemistry. The unique role of these rare departments is raising educated electrochemists, which is only possible when they are involved in real research starting from very early student years. This separate page is dedicated to the very small, but active specialized department in St. Petersburg founded by R.L. Müller and continued by the school of Ya.V. Durdin. The list starts from selected Durdin’s articles of 1930s.

Durdin Ya.V., Markevich A.M. Edge effect <accompanying> dissolution of metallic magnesium in aqueous solutions of organic acids // Zhurnal Obshchei Khimii. 1935. V. 5. P. 1690-1695, in Russian.

Durdin Ya.V., Markevich A.M. The rate of magnesium dissolution in acids // Zhurnal Obshchei Khimii. 1936. V. 6. P. 236-249, in Russian.

Durdin Ya.V. On the kinetic weight of a process being one of the steps of a complex process. I // Zhurnal Obshchei Khimii. 1946. V. 16. P. 1153-1170, in Russian, abstract in English (P. 1169-1170).

Durdin Ya.V. On the kinetic weight of a process being one of the steps of a complex process. II // Zhurnal Obshchei Khimii. 1946. V. 16. P. 1375-1390, in Russian, abstract in English (P. 1389-1390).

Durdin Ya.V. On electrochemical theory of metal dissolution in acids. II // Zhurnal Obshchei Khimii. 1947. V. 17. P. 844-861, in Russian, abstract in English (P. 861).

Durdin Ya.V. On electrochemical theory of metal dissolution in acids. III // Zhurnal Obshchei Khimii. 1947. V. 17. P. 862-871, in Russian.

Durdin Ya.V. On electrochemical theory of metal dissolution in acids. IV // Zhurnal Obshchei Khimii. 1948. V. 18. P. 345-363, in Russian.

Durdin Ya.V., Markevich A.M. <Dis>solution rate and potential of dissolving chromium // J. Gen. Chem. USSR. 1949. V. 19. P. a605-a620.

Durdin Ya.V., Oranskaya M.A. The rate of <dis>solution and the potential of dissolved iron // J. Gen. Chem. USSR. 1951. V. 21. P. 669-678. Marina Aleksandrovna Oranskaya (1910-1959) worked at the Dept of inorganic chemistry of SPb University.

Durdin Ya.V. The laws governing the rate at which metals dissolve in concentrated acids. I // J. Gen. Chem. USSR. 1951. V. 21. P. 881-887.

Durdin Ya.V. The laws governing the rate at which metals dissolve in concentrated acids. II. The <dis>solution rate and dissolution potentials of chromium and iron // J. Gen. Chem. USSR. 1952. V. 22. P. 1-14.