UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Moscow Institute of Non-Ferrous metals and Gold (arranged in 1930 on the basis of corresponding faculty of the Moscow Mining Academy) was a growth point of applied electrochemistry. This Institute was moved to Krasnoyarsk (Siberia) in 1958, and belongs to local University (Siberian Federal Univ) nowadays.
Hydroelectrometallurgy branch was arranged by David Mikhailovich Chizhikov (1895-1974). He was 1924 graduate of the Mining Academy, and teached in the Institute of Non-Ferrous metals and Golg before WWII. In 1939, he joined newly established Institute of Metallurgy (ИМЕТ), where headed division of physical chemistry of non-ferrous and rare metals. His collaborators most close to electrolytic technologies were Zoya Feodosievna Gulyanitskaya and N.A. Gurovich. B.Z. Ustinskyi was Frumkin school graduate who joined this division.
Semen Borisovich Tsfasman (1916-1963) was an expert in automation, who started as a lineman in 1933, and then graduated from Moscow Power Engineering Institute (МЭИ) in 1941. After four years at the fronts of WWII, he became a head of test instruments and automation department at so-named “Mayak” plant in Chelyabinsk region (Ural). In 1953 he was dismissed from this strongly secured huge plant built to produce various isotops for soviet nuclear program. This dismissal induced a lot of complications and living problems for him, and finally he was affiliated with applied metallurgical institution in Moscow, and started with equipment for polarography. His contribution to this field can be hardly overestimated.
A seperate electrochemical branch located at about 60 km from Moscow exists in Chernogolovka scientific town.