VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The Centre was built in succession to the Military-Chemical Committee of the Russian Physical and Chemical Society, as well as the pilot plant built in Petrograd in 1916 at the Committee's initiative to serve as a link between the laboratory stage and mass production of chemical products.
In 1919, the Military Chemical Committee was transformed into an Applied Chemistry Institute, which was given the status of a scientific-production association in 1982. In 1992, the association was transformed into the Russian Applied Chemistry Research Centre by presidential decree.
Over the years the institute enlisted the services of chemical and chemical-technological laboratories of the Academy of Sciences, Leningrad State University, the Technological, Polytechnic and Mining Institutes, the Artillery, Engineering and Military-Medical Academy, the Central Military Laboratory, the Naval Research and Technical Laboratory. Outstanding scientists who worked within its walls include Academicians Nikolai Kurnakov, Viktor Ipatyev, Professors Alexei Favorsky, Vyacheslav Tishchenko, Lev Chugayev, Pavel Fedotyev, Alexander Porai-Koshits, and Alexander Yakovkin.
Among the Institute's major achievements are the development by Alexander Yakovkin of the method of processing alumina which formed the basis for the Russian aluminium industry; work by Professors Pyotr Antipin and Alexander Alabyshev in molten salt electrolysis which laid the foundation for the production of metallic magnesium and sodium; the technology of obtaining nickel and cobalt through electrolysis developed by Professor P.P. Fedotyev and the development of technology for industrial production of Sovpren artificial rubber.
In the 1930s, the Institute designed chemical production facilities for the Voskresensk, Berezniki, Solikamsk, Chernorechensk, Nevsky and Konstantinov plants which made it possible to stop importing such products as phosphoric anhydride and phosphoric acid, pure chemical reagents, cyanide compounds, potassium fertilizer, alumina for the aluminium industry, metallic magnesium and sodium, electrochemical manganese dioxide, acetylene-based chlorine products (chloropropene rubber) and dozens of other products.
A whole number of areas of research initiated at the State Applied Chemistry Institute gave rise to new scientific and technical problems whose solution was handed over to newly created specialised institutes such as the State High Pressure Institute (GIVD), the All-Union Synthetic Rubber Research Institute (VNIISK), the All-Union Aluminium and Magnesium Institute (VAMI), the Chlorine Institute, the Halurgy Institute, the Gipronickel and Giprokhim Institutes.
After World War II the State Applied Chemistry Institute emerged as a major applied chemistry centre for research, development and introduction of rocket fuels. The Russian Applied Chemistry Research Centre still provides chemical support for all space projects, including manned space flights.
The State Applied Chemistry Research Institute's Pilot Plant has developed and launched production of a wide range of preparations (about 2000) marked with stable and radioactive isotopes that meet all domestic needs and are exported to various countries (the US, Germany and France). Research in the field of basic organic synthesis is vigorously pursued.
The Applied Chemistry Research Institute has developed industrial production facilities for agriculture (chorine chloride, chlorcholinechloride, carbation, zineb, eptam and others).
