1950
According to official records, only K.A. Sharifov graduated in 1950, he was supervised by Z.A. Iofa. He co-authored 1952 article on co-adsorption of organic substances and halogenide ions on iron. Presumably, he moved to the lab of chemical thermodynamics to work with Tamara Nikolaevna Rezukhina (1922-1993) on thermochemistry of hexacarbonyls of Cr, Mo, and W (his 1953 PhD thesis). His later publications in 1960s are affiliated with the Institute of Physics of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences.
1951
Esfir’ Iosifovna Lyakhovitskaya <Эсфирь Иосифовна Ляховицкая> studied adsortion on iron and hydrogen embrittlement in the course of steel corrosion under supervision of Z.A. Iofa. Two articles on her diploma topic were published in 1952.
Viktor Sergeevich Knyazev <Виктор Сергеевич Князев> worked with M.A. Gerovich, studying the effects of oxygen and light on tetracene films. His diploma topic was published in 1951.
Lidiya Markovna Zagryatskaya <Лидия Марковна Загряцкая> studied the effects of organic surfactants on hydrogen evolution under supervision of N.V. Fedorovich. She later worked in the field of catalysis for oil chemistry, and was affiliated with applied oil chemistry institute in Ufa (Bashkiria).
1952
Vladislav Nikolaevich Korshunov and Nadezhda Semenovna Polyanovskaya (Shapiro) worked at the Dept after graduation.
Ольга Григорьевна Ольман Her diploma results on condensed films of aromatic hydrocarbons at the surfaces of aqueous solutions are published in 1954.
Вероника Николаевна Преснякова
Galina Borisovna Rozhdestvenskaya <Галина Борисовна Рождественская> was supervised by Z.A. Iofa and studied iodide adsorption on iron (published in 1953).
Eduard Asaturovich Aikazyan <Эдуард Асатурович Айказян> started to work with A.I. Fedorova, but he is mostly known for his 1955 PhD thesis of hydrogen ionization on the rotating platinum electrode, supervised by A.N. Frumkin. For some period before 1965 he worked in Yerevan Institute of Organic Chemistry. Then he became a soviet trade representative in UK (1965-1971), an officer in the state committee on science and technology development (1972-1981), and finally a high-level Armenian official (representative of Armenia in Moscow) in 1981-1991. After the collapse of the USSR, he served insome foreign company.
1953
Lev Nikolaevich Nekrasov …
Viktor Aronovich Gil’man <Виктор Аронович Гильман> was diploma student of Z.A. Iofe, and later continued as corrosion scientists. His PhD thesis (1966) was devoted to zirconium behavior in aqueous halogenide-containing media. He worked in some applied institutions starting from at least mid 1970s.
Андрей Александрович Гроссман
1954
Galina Alekseevna Martinyuk <Галина Алексеевна Мартинюк> worked with A.I. Shlygin as diploma and PhD student, and completed her 1957 PhD thesis on electroreduction of nitrobenzene and its derivatives. Supposedly, she worked in Frumkin Inst.
Lyudmila Dmitrievna Shibaeva <Людмила Дмитриевна Шибаева> was a student of Z.A. Iofa, we have no more specific information at this stage.
1955
Dina Petrovna Aleksandrova (Telegina) <Дина Петровна Александрова (Телегина)> was diploma student of Z.A. Iofa, and later worked in Frumkin Institute with B.N. Kabanov and D.I. Leikis. Her PhD thesis (1967) addressed hydrogen evolution on Ag and Zn. She also participated in Kabanov’s studies of cathodic insertion of cations into metals, and in metal dissolution research.
Gleb Fedorovich Rybal’chenko <Глеб Федорович Рыбальченко> worked with M.A. Gerovich, his diploma study was published in 1958. He probably moved to Moscow from Chisinau University, as mentioned in the memoirs of R.L. Davidovich, inorganic chemist. Rybal’chenko worked in the Institute of fertilizers, dealing with dessication technologies, and completed PhD on this topic in 1966.
Yuryi Mikhailovich Tyurin <Юрий Михайлович Тюрин> (1932-2014) was supervised by A.I. Shlygin during his diploma and PhD periods. He continued at the Dept up to 1961, dealing with electrochemical characterization of dispersed metals (PhD thesis, 1959). Then he moved to Gorkyi (currently Nizhnyi Novgorod) and joined the local Polytechnical University. His DSc thesis (1978) addressed electrochemical behavior of platunum group metals at high anodic potentials.
1956
Damaskin, Kazarinov
Vergelesov
1957
1958
The list of 1958 graduates is documented in 2008 jubilee brochure of their class.
Anatolyi Pavlovich Balashov <Анатолий Павлович Балашов>, no information about his fate at this stage.
Nina Georgievna Bardina (Ostrenko) <Нина Георгиевна Бардина (Остренко)> (1921-?) first entered Moscow University in 1939, but was arrested on false charges during WWII. She spent a long time in various prisons, including prison laboratories, and was not allowed to live in Moscow even after release, it was a sort of exile. But she returned to University immediately after official rehabilitation in 1955. After diploma study with Z.A. Iofa, she became PhD student in Frumkin Institute under supervision of P.D. Lukovtsev, and studied anodically oxidized zirconium electrodes (in particular, as rectifiers). After defending PhD thesis in 1963, she worked as associate professor in the Moscow Automotive Institute (МАМИ). She is known for her book about ‘gulag’ (prison and exile periods).
Yuryi Mikhailovich Povarov <Юрий Михайлович Поваров>
Tatiana Mikhailovna Rzhyshcheva <Татьяна Михайловна Ржищева> worked under sypervision of A.I. Fedorova, studying hydrogen sorption by palladium (here is the article presenting a part of her diploma thesis). Later she worked at the Dept of General Chemistry in Moscow University.
Rimma Vladimirovna Ivanova <Римма Владимировна Иванова> started from diploma work on anions electroreduction on mercury with N.V. Fedorovich. Starting from her PhD period, and later being a member of Department staff, she worked with B.B. Damaskin and concentrated on ionic adsorption on mercury. In particular, she studied this phenomenon in non-aqueous solvents.
Leonid Isaakovich Boguslavskyi <Леoнид Исаакович Богуславский> (1935-2013) worked with B.B. Damaskin on the interfacial properties of thallium amalgam (his diploma results are published here). Then he entered Frumkin Institute, defended PhD thesis (1964) on the films of conducting polymers, and moved to membrane equlibria (including biological membranes and model systems based on immiscible liquids). Membranes became a topic of his 1974 DSc thesis and 1979 book “Bioelectrochemical phenomena and phase boundary”. He left for US in 1989, and worked in various companies. In 2005, he returned to Russia and continued in the People Friendship University.
Vladimir Valerianovich Sobol’ <Владимир Валерианович Соболь> developed the technique of potential decays after current interruption as a tool to characterize the surface of various electrodes (his 1962 PhD thesis, partly presented in the articles with Z.A. Iofa (iron) and with A.N. Frumkin (platinum, in respect to oxygen evolution). Later he co-authored Frumkin’s article on hydrogen ionization on platinum. Shortly after PhD, he started to work in the Institute of Power Sources, and was specially active with electrochemical transformations of electric signals (“chemotronics”), but not only. His most known “chemotrons” presented a sort of memristors and capillary time counters operating under coulometric mode.
1959
Lyudmila Iosifovna Shubadeeva <Людмила Иосифовна Шубадеева> worked in the Institute of Aviation Materials (ВИАМ) as corrosion scientist. Her 1974 PhD thesis addressed the machining of stainless steels, and later she published on various aspects of steel corrosion, including cracking. She was active with patents and publications up to the end of 1990s.
For the following graduates of 1950s, graduation year is still not identified.
Anatolyi Filippovich Shadenkov <Анатолий Филиппович Шаденков> (1926-2014) is mentioned as a veteran of the war in state records. Nothing is found about his further professional activities at this stage.
Galina Nikonovna Tomashova <Галина Никоновна Томашова> (1936-1968) was a student of Z.A. Iofa at late 1950s, she co-authored 1960 article on iron corrosion. She worked later with A.T. Vagramyan and studied chromium deposition.
G.G. Besproskurnov <Г.Г. Беспроскурнов> is mentioned in Z.A. Iofa’s lists. His name can be found in publications affiliated with the Institute of hard alloys (ВНИИТС) and related to elemental analysis of alloys. His typical co-author was Yu.N. Yurkevich (PhD 1953 from Moscow Chemical-Technological Inst, nickel electrodeposition).
M.S. Kolotova