Metallurgy, Institute of

Metallurgy, Institute of 

(full name, A. A. Baikov Institute of Metallurgy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR), a research institution at which studies in metallurgy, metal science, and the working of ferrous and nonferrous metals and alloys are conducted. Founded in Moscow in 1938.

The Institute of Metallurgy studies the physicochemical basis of the processes of production of metals and alloys, including new metallic materials with special properties, and develops efficient processes for the production and processing of metals. The results of the studies are published in collections of the institute and in monographs, as well as in Doklady Akademii nauk SSSR (Reports of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR) and Izvestiia Akademii nauk SSSR: Metally (Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR: Metals) and in the journal Fizika i khimiia obrabotki metallov (Physics and Chemistry of Metalworking). The institute has a graduate study program (it confers doctoral and candidate’s degrees) and its own special design office, which develops instruments and devices for studies in metallurgy.

The organizer and first director of the Institute of Metallurgy was Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR I. P. Bardin. Among those who have worked at the institute are Academicians A. A. Baikov, E. V. Britske, N. T. Gudtsov, M. M. Karnaukhov, M. A. Pavlov, and A. M. Samarin and Correponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR I. A. Oding.