This meeting arranged on Dec 19-25, 1950, is known by terribly shameful criticism of Frumkin’s basic direction in electrode kinetics, with simultaneous rude statements about some special role of Russian scientists and overemphasis on foreign scientists.

All the articles listed below are published in Russian in Proceedings of the meeting on electrochemistry (Moscow, December 1950). Moscow: Acad. Sci. Publ., 1953. See Contents for complete list of contributed communications <Introduction and list of misprints are also in this file>. At this page, we collected representative contributions of Frumkin school and its branches operating independently after WWII, to show what was presented from “cosmopolitants’ side.

Frumkin A.N.  Kinetics of the electrode processes and the phenomena at metal-solution interface. P. 21–46. 

Veselovskyi V.I. Photoelectrochemical study of anodic reactions. P. 47-56.

Bagotsky V.S., Yablokova I.Ya. Mechanism of cathodic hydrogen evolution and oxygen reduction on mercury electrode. P. 57-70.

Kabanov B.N. On the theory of anodic passivation and dissolution of metals. P. 138-150.

Pleskov V.A., Miller N.B. The study of ions exchange reactions between the electrode and solution by means of radiotracer techniques. P. 165-180.

Temkin M.I. Activation energy and preexponential factor for electrochemical reactions. P. 181-192.

Levich V.G. Diffusion kinetics of electrochemical processes. P. 193-201.

Vagramyan A.T., Balashova N.N. Mechanism of metals electrodeposition from cyanide solutions. P. 237-242.

Kryukova T.A., Melik-Gaikazyan V.I., Martirosyan A.P. Adsorption layers of organic substances at the surface of the dropping mercury electrode and inhibition of electrochemical reaction. P. 315-321.

Shlygin A.I. The study of the mechanism of reduction and electroreduction of some unsaturated organic compounds on platinum. P. 322-334.

Ershler B.V. Problem of absolute potential in electrochemistry and zero points of metals. P. 357-368.

Kolotyrkin Ya.M., Medvedeva L.A. Interrelation of hydrogen overvoltage on lead, cadmium, and thallium electrodes, and the sign of their surface charge in acidic solutions. P. 369-379.

Borisova T.I. The study of the state of electrode surface in the course of anodic reactions by ac techniques. P. 386-395.

Ershler B.V., Rozental’ K.I. Using polarization by ac current for the studies of discharge of metal ions. P. 446-450.

Lukovtsev P.D., Temerin S.A. On the origin of potential and on electrochemical behavior of the real oxide electrodes. P. 494-503.

Bach N.A. The works of Russian researchers in the field of chemical power sources in the second half of XIX century. P. 532-538.

Krivolapova E.V., Kabanov B.N. The study of lead corrosion in oxidizing medium. II. The effect of the additive of cobalt salt, temperature, and other factors on the lifetime of the positive electrode of the lead battery. P. 539-548.

Rozentsveig S.A., Ershler B.V., Shtrum E.L., Ostanina M.M. Electrochemical properties of cadmium in alkaline solutions. P. 571-578.

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Comparing Introduction published in 1953 with official Meeting resolution adopted in 1950, one can notice some positive change in the tone (especially in respect to “underestimated role of Russian scientists”, which was purely political issue). However, the contradictions related to scientific aspects are still mentioned in 1953, and cover a wide range of basic tipics: hydrogen evolution mechanism, “double layer” structure, “absolute potentials”, spatial separation of anodic and cathodic processes (in respect to corrosion, and electrocrystallization theory.

A couple of texts published immediately after Meeting:

Chronicles of the 3rd Meeting on electrochemistry, Dec 1950, Moscow // Zhurnal Fizicheskoi Khimii. 1951. V. 25. P. 1262-1270, in Russian. Authored by K.M. Gorbunova.