Ninel’ Mikhailovna Alpatova (1933-2014) joined the Institute in 1959, and started her work with Yuryi Mikhailovich Kessler (1924-2002), who was a solution chemistry person <he left the Institute in 1970, and his most known affiliation is the Institute of Solutions Chemistry in Ivanovo>. Her PhD (1965) addressed silicon compounds and anodic behavior of silicon in aprotic solvents. She also published with Kessler on the conductivity of non-aqueous solutions and on the solution behavior of aluminum compounds in aprotic media, including hexamethylphosphortriamide. This solvent was accented in her further systematic research jointly with L.I. Krishtalik (generation of solvated electrons) and A.V. Vannikov (spectroscopy of solvated electrons). Her DSc thesis (1982) is named “Electrode reactions of solvated electrons”. The development of these studies resulted in a series of works on solvation, especially for the model cobaltocene/cobaltocenium system. Starting from 1990s, she was dealing with electropolymerization, photoelectrochemistry of conducting polymers and relative organic materials.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Tsionsky His earliest article is co-authored with L.M. Yakimenko (1907-2003), a key electrolysis person in the Institute of Chlorine Industry. This article contains the data of tritium monitoring in Moscow rainfall in 1962-1963, with the use of electrolysis for isotope enrichment of the samples.