Kazan is a capital of Tatarstan region, a large city located in the middle reaches of the Volga river. Kazan University was established in 1804. Working in Kazan, Karl Claus discovered ruthenium element in platinum ore. Kazan schools of synthetic chemistry (mostly organic) were very strong already in XIX century and generated young chemists for the whole Russian Impire/USSR (see in A.E. Arbuzov’s review, Uspekhi Khimii. 1940. V. 9. P. 1378-1394, in Russian). In what follows, we only mention Kazan scientists who contributed to electrochemistry-related topics.
Aleksandr Stepanovich Saveliev (1820-1860) was educated in St. Petersburg and started his research under supervision of Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz (1804-1865), working on galvanic polarization. He spent about 10 years of his very short life in Kazan, and continued with….
The article of E.A. Budreiko about Saveliev’s studies of solution conductivity, Zhurnal Fizicheskoi Khimii. 1957. V. 31. P. 920-922, in Russian.
Robert Andreevich Kolli (1845-1891) was a physicist of Scottish origin, graduated from Moscow University, who also worked in Kazan for about 10 years. He generated some original ideas concerning the nature of electrode polarisation…. His first supervisor, world-famous physicist A.G. Stoletov (1839-1896) published scientific obituary (in Russian)…. See the obituary published by A. Stoletov in Zhurnal Russkogo Fiziko-Khimicheskogo Obshchestva (contains Kolli’s list of publications)
Nikolay Petrovich Sluginov (1854-1897) originated from StPetersburg University. Several sources repeat that he started his research from the topic proposed by a famous physicist Heinrich Friedrich Emil <Emiliy Khristianovich> Lenz (1804-1865), but we believe that no direct supervision was possible, as Lenz passed away before Sluginov entered the University.
In Kazan (starting from 1886, just when R.A. Kolli left for Moscow),….. Sluginov’s closest collaborator in Kazan was Nikolay Petrovich Kazankin (1862-?), who authored the first memorial text in Zhurnal …..
Gennadyi Serafimovich Vozdvizhenskyi (1905-1974) ….headed Dept of inorganic chemistry in Kazan Institute of Chemical Technology… galvanotechnique seminar
Vozdvizhenskyi G.S. Studies of metals eletrocrystallization. I. On the preparation of colloidal solutions of metals by electrolysis // Zhurnal Prikladnoi Khimii. 1938. V. 11. P. 770-775, in Russian. Participation of E.S. Shchinanova in experiments is mentioned.
Vozdvizhenskyi G.S., Dmitriev V.A., Mozhanova A.G., Rzhevskaya E.V. The composition, properties, and role of the anode layer of electrolyte in the electrolytic polishing of copper in phosphoric acid // J. Appl. Chem. 1956. V. 29. P. 67-71. Russian version: Zhurnal Prikladnoi Khimii. 1956. V. 29. P.
Nikolay Vasilievich Gudin (1916-2006), graduate of Kazan University, worked at electroplating workshop of Kazan aviation plant during WWII and up to 1947. Then he started his research under Vozdvizhenskyi’s supervision (1953 PhD thesis on electropolishing of galvanic coatings), and continued at the same Dept. In 1972, when a separate Dept of electrochemical engineering was established, he started to serve as its Head. His 1971 DSc thesis addressed metals electroplating in presence of alkyl amines. Here is his detailed biographic record in Russian.
Sergey Mikhailovich Kochergin (1912-1965) graduated from Kazan Institute of Chemical Technology in 1935, and spent some period at the factory of gramophone records in Noginsk near Moscow (here is his article of this period on galvanoplastics). Then, before WWI, he was deployed to USA to study galvanic industry, and worked in the Moscow Chemical-Technological Institute. After a period at the front, he returned to his Institute in Kazan, where headed the Dept of physical chemistry starting from 1953. His main research topic was texture formation in electrodeposited metals and alloys.
Kochergin S.M. Metal texture and electrode processes // Uspekhi Khimii. 1955. V. 24. P. 779-733, in Russian.