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Our goal is to present local research schools, namely, individuals, their research directions, and research traditions specific for certain countries and regions. Former USSR entails several of such regional schools belonging to different geographical locations and national republics. Many of these schools were essentially interrelated. In this case, we tried to collect information about people who established local schools, and to present some examples of their less-known publications. Of course, people often moved from place to place, but we try to assign them to those countries and cities where they belong most naturally.
EUROPE
Our “Triple-E” special Issue of the Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry (Electrochemistry in Eastern Europe, 27 (2023) N7, co-edited with Laszlo Peter) gave rise to the corresponding Collection. Historical part of this issue inherits “Electrochemistry in the Divided World” book, and contains the articles concerning electrochemistry in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Marija Mitrović), Bulgaria (Vessela Tsakova), Estonia (Enn Lust and coauthors), Georgia (charge transfer research, Dimitri E. Khoshtariya and coauthors, and manganese electrochemistry, Nikoloz Nioradze), Latvia (Jānis Kleperis, Gunārs Bajārs and coauthors), Moldova (Alexandr Dikusar and coauthors), Poland (Krakowian branch, Katarzyna Skibińska and Piotr Żabiński), Serbia (Nevenka R. Elezovic).
Bulgaria
“The Bulgarian physicochemical tradition and the Institute of Physical Chemistry ‘Academician Rostislaw Kaischew’” (Chemistry: Bulgarian Journal of Science Education. 2016. V. 25. P. 35-67), in Bulgarian, authored by Vessela Tsakova. There is a list of important articles and monographs, as well as information about some legendary members of Bulgarian electrocrystallization school, with a number of photos.
“On the anniversary of Physical Chemistry Department. A short historical survey, or about the people who are responsible for this jubilee” (J. Univ. Chem. Technology Metallurgy. 2008. V. 3. P. 169-176). No authors are indicated. Key person in this story is Stefan Christov (1910-2002). You will meet many other well-known names belonging to Bulgarian electrochemistry.
Czech Republic
“Natives of the Russian Empire in the laboratory of Jaroslav Heyrovský” (ChemTexts. 2022. V. 8. No 21), authored by Vitalii Yu. Kotov et al. Contains rare information from archives. The same author published the last Heyrovskyi’s letter to Russian colleagues <in Russian, but the letter itself is in English> in Noosfera. 2023. V. 1. P, 270-275.
“Review of the latest theoretical work of the Prague school of polarography” (the talk presented in 1956, published in Proceedings of the 4th Meeting on Electrochemistry. 1961. V. 1. P. 177-182), authored by Jaroslav Koutecký. The list of Refs contains 40 articles published in 1947-1957.
Georgia
Contributions to the development of chemistry made by Georgian scientists over the last forty years (J. Gen. Chem. USSR. 1961. V. 31. P. 1623-1626), authored by Akakyi Melitonovich Gakhok<h>idze (1909-1964). The author was organic chemist, and the text is more or less formal, but it is interesting to see how national electrochemical advancements (see our red notes) are formulated.
Germany
“The state of investigations of passivation of metals in East Germany” (Protection of Metals. 1974. V. 10. P. 453-465), authored by Kurt Schwabe et al., with 107 Refs.
Moldova
“Polarographic school of Academician Yu.S, Lyalikov in Chisinau”, in Russian, authored byYuliya D. Sister. This is an essential addition to the aforementioned review on electrochemistry in Moldova, as many details of polarographic research are explained, incl. ac polarography, analysis of organic substances and semiconductors, and polarography with solid electrodes.
Russia
St.Petersburg * Moscow * Ural * Ivanovo * Siberia * Kazan * Nizhnii Novgorod * Saratov * Rostov-on-Don * Krasnodar
Serbia
Belgrade School of Electrochemistry (J. Serb. Chem. Soc. 2020. V. 85. P. 1237–1250), authored by Aleksandar Dekanski.
ASIA
Japan
History of ECSJ Awards and Introduction of Award Winners in 2021 (Electrochemistry (Denki Kagaku). 2021. V. 89. P. 485-490), authored by Mahito Atobe and Minoru Mizuhata.
History of ECSJ Journal Series and Introduction of Award Winners in 2022 (Electrochemistry (Denki Kagaku). 2022. V. 90. No 100001), authored by Minoru Mizuhata and Mikito Ueda.
LATIN AMERICA
History of Electrochemistry in Mexico (Electrochemistry, Past and Present, ACS Symp. Ser. 390. 1989. Chapter 36. P. 534-542), authored by Silvia Tejada; genuine electrochemical history starts from 1920s, but the author’s description of some preceding events related to metallurgy is also of interest