The name of this Institute had changed several times. The predecessor of the Institute was the Colloid–Electrochemical Laboratory established in Leningrad in 1930 under the leadership of Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kistyakovskyi (1865-1952). He and his laboratory were moved to Moscow in 1934 to form the Colloid–Electrochemical Institute. Frumkin became the director of this Institute in 1939 (and continued in Karpov Inst in parallel). The Institute’s name was officially changed for the Institute of Physical Chemistry in 1946. It was finally transformed into the Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry named under A.N. Frumkin in 2004, after incorporating the real Frumkin Institute.