Krasnodar <former Ekaterinodar> is a large city located in the Southern part of Russia, not far from Black sea, in the region named Kuban. In addition to so-named Kuban University (transformed in 1970 from Pedagogical Institute), there are Polytechnical, Agricultural, and Medical Universities.
Nikolay Petrovich Gnusin (1919-2013) started his work in Kuban Uniersity in 1971. Before it, after 4 years of army service at the front during WWII, he graduated from Leningrad (StPetersburg) Technological Institute, where he also completed PhD work on the structures of electrodeposited metals (1953, working with N.P. Fedotyev), and continued successively in Gomel’ (Belarus), Novosibirsk (Siberia), and Kiev. During Gomel’ period, he worked on DSc thesis on current distribution in electrolytic systems. His activities at the chair of physical chemistry in Kuban University were mostly related to ion-exchange membranes and electrodyalisis.
Ninel’ Petrovna Berezina (1937-2013), originating from Frumkin School, was a key person at this chair of pysical chemistry. Gnusin’s successor was Viktor Ivanovich Zabolotskyi (b.1947), who headed the chair starting from 1988. Here is 2008 review presenting Kuban membrane school.
Yakov Iosifovich Tur’yan (1922-2023) graduated from Middle-Asian Industrial Institute (Tashkent, Uzbekistan), where he also completed his PhD study of oxygen evolution on nickel in 1948. After the periods of work in Kishinev University (Moldova) and in industrial research institutes in Severodonetsk (Ukraine) and Yaroslavl’ (Russia), he headed analytical chemistry chair in Kuban Polytechnical University in 1969-1991. His most known research direction (DSc thesis, 1965) was polarography of complex multistep reactions. He moved to Israel in 1991, and was affiliated with the National Physical Laboratory in Jerusalem. Later he moved to USA, and continued to publish on various electroanalytical techniques up to 2016.
Ovsey Evelevich Ruvinskyi (1936-2016?) graduated from Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology in 1960, worked at the central laboratory of synthetic rubber plant in Yaroslavl’, and then became Tur’yan’s collaborator in Krasnodar. He headed a sectoral laboratory of electrochemical techniques for Kuban wine-production industry, and later in 1991-2011 he headed the former Tur’yan’s chair. His PhD thesis (1971) addressed catalytic currents in polarography of Ni(II) complex species, and he continued with homogeneous catalytic reactions of various iron group metals (DSc thesis in 1980).