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 (nee 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 (with M.A. Gerovich) are published in 1954.
Veronika Nikolaevna Presnyakova <Вероника Николаевна Преснякова> studied anions reduction on mercury under supervision of N.V. Nikolaeva (Fedorovich). Supposedly, she later worked in the Institute of Power Sources.
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 worked at the Dept later.
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.
Andrey Aleksandrovich Grossman <Андрей Александрович Гроссман> studied peroxodisulfate reduction on platinum under supervision of N.V. Nikolaeva (Fedorovich), published in 1954. After some period in the Institute of Physical Chemistry he moved to Germany. He is mentioned as Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Grossmann in 1960 list of staff of the Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Lab. für Elektrochemie, Inst für physicalishche Chemie, Berlin-Adlerstaf), and also in one 1960 article affiliated with the Inst für anorganishche Chemie of the same academy. There are several publications on adsorption from mixtures, mostly gases.
1954
Roza Mkrtychevna Akopyan <Роза Мкртычевна Акопян> was supervised by N.V. Nikolaeva (Fedorovich) and studied anions electroreduction. Later she was affiliated with Dept of physical chemistry in Yerevan University (Armenia). Her most known topic was oxidative liquid-phase polymerization (patent on acrylamide fabrication is available). In 1979, she finally completed PhD thesis on formation of organic radicals in the course of organic amines oxidation with peroxodisulfate. In Yerevan, she was supervised by Norair Manvelovich Beileryan (b.1929), who studied various radical reactions. Beileryan was the pupil and successor of Ovanes Akopovich Chaltikyan (1902-1972), the former intern of M.A. Proskurnin in Karpov Inst.
Elik (El’) Khasanovich [Y]Enikeev <Элик (Эль) Хасанович Еникеев> (1931-2003) studied anodic processes on platinum in alkaline sulfate solutions under supervision of M.A. Gerovich and R.I. Kaganovich. Then he entered the Institute of physical chemistry, where his PhD thesis on the kinetics of oxygen adsorption on oxide semiconductors was completed in 1962. He continued in this Inst for several decades, mostly in corrosion labs with I.L. Rozenfeld and later with M.N. Fokin. His publications address corrosion inhibitors and application of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy in corrosion research.
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 for some period, and later at the Dept of inorganic and analytical chemistry in the Timiryazev agricultural academy. In 1977, she co-authored (with Dmitry Anatol’evich Knyazev) the training texts for teaching chemical equilibria.
Emma Alekseyevna Maznichenko <Эмма Алексеевна Мазниченко> worked with Z.A. Iofa, and continued at the Dept up to 1965, when she completed her PhD related to cations effect on hydrogen evolution on mercury. This thesis contains rather rare results published with Iofa and Frumkin in Zhurnal Fizicheskoi Khimii. 1957. V. 3. P. 2042-2051 (in Russian), and also with Iofa and Damaskin in Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 1961. V. 138. P. 1377-1380 (translated version: Proc. Acad. Sci. USSR. Phys. Chem. Section. 1961. V. 138. P. 490-493). Supposedly, she moved to the Institute of Power Sources later.
Lyudmila Dmitrievna Shibaeva <Людмила Дмитриевна Шибаева> was a student of Z.A. Iofa, we have no more specific information at this stage.
Galina Leonidovna Vidovich <Галина Леонидовна Видович> (1931-2019) worked with B.N. Kabanov, and completed her PhD thesis on anodic behavior of silver in alkaline solutions in 1962. Later she worked at the Department of general chemistry, Moscow University (mostly with G.A. Bogdanovskyi, then with L.M. Kustov). Her works were related to adsorption and electrocatalytic transformations of complex organic molecules.
Avgusta Sergeyevna Balanina <Августа Сергеевна Баланина> and Galina Pavlovna Shtokman <Галина Павловна Штокман> are also listed in official records, no additional information.
1955
Dina Petrovna Aleksandrova (nee Telegina), Galina Mitrofanovna Kornacheva (nee Popova), and Yuryi Viktorovich Pleskov worked in Frumkin Inst after graduation.
Gennady Georgievich Besproskurnov <Геннадий Георгиевич 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).
Galina Anatol’evna Furazhkova <Галина Анатольевна Фуражкова> was diploma student of N.V. Nikolaeva (Fedorovich). Her results on anions electroreduction were later published in N.V. Nikolaeva-Fedorovich, O.A. Petrii, B.B. Damaskin, G.A. Furazhkova. The effect of temperature on the reduction reaction of some anions on a mercury-drop electrode // Vestn. Mosk. Univ., Ser. 2: Khim. 1962. V. 17. P. 40 (no full text is available now), but nothing is known about her further work.
Tatiana Mikhailovna Kozlovskaya <Татьяна Михайловна Козловская>, suspectedly, continued in the Institute of Metallurgy, and completed PhD thesis on thermochemical studies of binary silicon alloys in 1966.
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.
Rimma Evgen’evna Likhacheva (nee Kuznetsova) <Римма Евгеньевна Лихачева (Кузнецова)> and Ri[e?]mma Vital’evna Volkova <Ри[е?]мма Витальевна Волкова> are also listed in official records, no additional information.
1956
Boris Borisovich Damaskin continued at the Dept, and Vladimir Evgen’evich Kazarinov joined Frumkin Institute.
Vladimir Mikhailovich Vergelesov <Владимир Михайлович Вергелесов> (1925-1994) entered Moscow Univ after army service. He worked with M.A. Gerovich and R.I. Kaganovich and studied oxygen evolution reaction with the use of radiotracer technique. He co-authored 1957 article. After graduation he started to work on physical chemistry issues in food (butter and cheese) industry, in applied institute located in Uglich (historical town in Yaroslavl’ region, about 250 km from Moscow). In 1962-1984, he worked in Kiev and then returned to Uglich. His 1973 PhD thesis completed during Kiev period addressed crystallization of milk fat in respect to formation of butter. His works in this specific field are still cited in specialized literature. Here is the article devoted to his posthumous 90th birthday (in Russian).
Lyudmila Dmitrievna Gavrilova <Людмила Дмитриевна Гаврилова> was later involved in organic electrochemistry. Catalogues inform us about her 1968 PhD thesis on the electrode reactions of some pentanomial aromatic cycles, but no publications are found at this stage.
Yuliya Sergeyevna Che[i]kulaeva <Юлия Сергеевна Че[и]кулаева> and Longen Valentinovich Komlev <Лонген Валентинович Комлев> (we only know that he originated from Magadan, Siberia) were diploma student of Z.A. Iofa. No further information at this stage.
Maya Gotaulovna Zaripova <Майя Готауловна Зарипова> is also mentioned in some 1956 graduation records.
Yuryi Alekseevich Podvyazkin <Юрий Алексеевич Подвязкин> (1925-?) completed PhD thesis in 1956. He was supervised by A.I. Shlygin and studied smooth and dispersed platinum by means of electrochemical techniques. He entered Voronezh University in 1945 after participation in WWII, where he was seriously injured, and graduated in 1950. In 1973, Yu.A. Podvyazkin defended DSc thesis related to adsorption on VIII group metals. He teached in Voronezh Technical University.
1957
Leonid Grigor’evich Feoktistov joined Frumkin Institute, and Al’bert Ignatievich Molodov became a member of Karpov Institute
Yuryi Askhatovich Mazitov <Юрий Асхатович Мазитов> worked on ozone evolution from concentrated perchloric acid under supervision of M.A. Gerovich and R.I. Kaganovich, published in 1961. His 1964 PhD thesis addressed oxygen reduction on partly immersed electrodes in alkaline solutions (most probably it was completed in Karpov Inst with V.I. Veselovskyi, as one can assume from 1963 publication). A number of his later patents on various applied topics can be found, some of them are affiliated with the Institute of Power Sources, and two latest with the Institute of Paper.
Aleksandr Filippovich Shadenkov <Александр Филиппович Шаденков> (1926-2014), diploma student of Z.A. Iofa, is mentioned as a veteran of the war in state records. Nothing is found about his further professional activities at this stage.
Siegfried P. Braun was diploma student of Z.A. Iofa from Germany, no information about him after graduation.
Kaysar Kambarov <Кайсар Камбаров>, Nadezhda Ivanovna Kozlova <Надежда Ивановна Козлова>, and Lidiya Aleksandrovna Fokina <Лидия Александровна Фокина> are also mentioned in 1957 graduation records.
1958
The list of 1958 graduates is documented in 2008 jubilee brochure of their class.
Yuryi Mikhailovich Povarov joined Frumkin Institute after graduation, and Rimma Vladimirovna Ivanova became a member of Dept in Moscow University
Anatolyi Pavlovich Balashov <Анатолий Павлович Балашов>, no information about his fate at this stage.
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.
Nina Georgievna Bardina (nee Ostrenko) <Нина Георгиевна Бардина (Остренко)> (1921-2008) 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. 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 in various groups in the Institute for several years, and then in the Moscow Automotive Institute (МАМИ). She is known for herbook about ‘gulag’ (prison and exile periods).
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> (1936-2007) 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
Oleg Aleksandrovich Petrii continued at the Department, and Mikhail Aleksandrovich Novitskyi worked in the Frumkin Institute
Valeryi Vladimirovich Batrakov <Валерий Владимирович Батраков> (1937-2020) studied iron corrosion under supervision of Z.A. Iofa, and spent rather long time at the Dept after completing PhD thesis in 1965. His research was extended to the studies of corrosion inhibitors and accented the effects of surface crystallography on metal dissolution and passivation (1975 DSc thesis). Then he moved to Moscow Technological Institute of the Light Manufacturing (Textile Inst, does not exist anymore), and later to Moscow Pedagogical Institute (МГПИ), where he continued with corrosion research. He is known for co-authorship of 1968 book “Adsorption of organic compounds on electrodes” (translated version: Damaskin, 0.A . Petrii, and V. V .Batrakov. Plenum Press, New York-London 1972).
Yuriy Fedorovich Belugin <Юрий Федорович Белугин> studied the effects of organic cations on peroxodisulfate reduction at amalgamated copper electrode with N.V. Fedorovich. His further work in the Institute of Chemical Reagents and Highly Pure Chemicals (ИРЕА) is documented up to, at least, 1968 when he completed PhD thesis on the chemistry phosphor-containing complexones. This work was supervised by Nina Mikhailovna Dyatlova (1925-2015), a prominent expert in chelate coordination chemistry. No later publications or patents of him are found at this stage.
Ninel’ Petrovna Berezina <Нинель Петровна Березина> (1937-2013) started as diploma student of L.N. Nekrasov, but she is more known for her PhD work with N.V. Fedorovich on anions electroreduction (1967 thesis), and specially for her active participation in fabrication of high purity water for electrochemical experiments (bi-distillation combined with purification involving carbon adsorbents). After three years in Novosibirsk she moved to more southern Krasnodar (Kuban’ region) in 1970. Just at that time Nikolay Petrovich Gnusin (1919-2013) started to develop electrochemistry of ion-exchange membranes in Kuban’ State University, and N.P. Berezina was involved in membrane research (1990 DSc thesis). She continued as Professor of this Univ for the rest of her life.
Igor’ Viktorovich Shelepin <Игорь Викторович Шелепин> (1937-2018) was diploma and PhD student of A.I. Fedorova. His 1963 PhD thesis addressed cathodic initiation of methyl methacrylate polimarization on mercury and lead. Later he spent all his life in the Institute of Organic Intermediates and Dyes (НИИОПиК), mostly working on electrochromic materials and devices. He authored many patents, and also the articles on (photo)electrochemistry of viologens and phtalocyanines. He was active up to at least early 2000s.
Lyudmila Iosifovna Shubadeyeva <Людмила Иосифовна Шубадеева> worked at Moscow mechanical plant (defence-oriented organization) linked to in the Institute of Aircraft Materials (ВИАМ), and later in this institute. She worked out various etching technologies, and her 1974 PhD thesis addressed the machining of stainless steels. Later she worked as corrosion scientist and published on various aspects of steel corrosion, including cracking. She was active with patents and publications up to the end of 1990s.
We failed to find any information about Khadzhi-Murat Sebetov <Хаджи-Мурат Себетов> mentioned in 1959 graduation records, most probably he originated from North Caucasus.
For the following graduates of 1950s, graduation year is still not identified.
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.
Larisa Akimovna Martinyuk is mentioned in some records as diploma student of Z.A. Iofa, but she is absent from Iofa’s list of students. We cannot exclude that this name results from mixing G.A. Martinyuk (1954 graduate) and Larisa Akimovna Matyushenko (1964 graduate).
M.S. Kolotova, only the name can be found in some records, no additional information.