Moscow Institute of Non-Ferrous metals and Gold (arranged in 1930 on the basis of corresponding faculty of the Moscow Mining Academy) was a growth point of applied electrochemistry. This Institute was moved to Krasnoyarsk (Siberia) in 1958, and belongs to local University (Siberian Federal Univ) nowadays.
Hydroelectrometallurgy branch was arranged by David Mikhailovich Chizhikov (1895-1974). He was 1924 graduate of the Mining Academy, and teached in the Institute of Non-Ferrous metals and Golg before WWII. In 1939, he joined newly established Insritute of Metallurgy, where headed division of physical chemistry of non-ferrous and rare metals. His collaborators most close to electrolytic technologies were Zoya Feodosievna Gulyanitskaya and N.A. Gurovich. B.Z. Ustinskyi was Frumkin school graduate who joined this division.