Ural is a range of relatively low mountains separating Europe and Asia. This area famous for various ores and metallurgical industry has deep research traditions. Two cities at Ural are well known in respect to electrochemistry: Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk during soviet period), which is Ural capital, and Perm’ located approximately 350 km northwest of Yekaterinburg.
Oleg Alekseyevich Esin (1904-1979) graduated from Ural Polytechnical Institute (Ekaterinburg) in 1925, and spent all his life in this Institute. He was a reliable associate of Frumkin school, despite he never belonged to it directly, but developed a relative approach for the electrode kinetics of ions discharge. Here is his early review “Modern theories of the overvoltage”, Uspekhi Khimii. 1933. V. 2. P. 493-516 (in Russian) supporting slow discharge theory. He also made a lot in the field of melt electrochemistry, which became the most known electrochemical direction at Ural later. After WWII, Esin moved to physical chemistry of metallurgical processes.
Aron Iosifovich Levin (1908-1999)
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Boris Fedorovich Markov (1912-1996) was Esin’s PhD student. During WWII, he was in the army, and then moved to Kiev, where he worked in the Institute of Inorganic and General Chemistry of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1946-1986. He is known for his studies of melt electrochemistry and melt equilibria, specially in respect to titanium deposition from melts. Biographic data in Ukrainian are available.
