Ivan Pavlovich Bardin (

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: Иван Павлович Бардин; 1883–1960) was a

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metallurgist Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the ...

and active participant in solving the main engineering issues of the domestic ferrous metallurgical industry. He was also an Academician of USSR AS (1932), vice-president of USSR AS (from 1942),

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(1945), and winner of the Lenin (1958) and State prizes (1942, 1949). His scientific interests were designing new powerful completely mechanized steel works; creating advanced typical metallurgical aggregates; intensifying metallurgical processes, especially by means of oxygen; elaborating and introducing the basic oxygen process; and assimilation and multi-purpose utilization of new kinds of metallurgical raw materials.

Career

He was chair of

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and management (1943–1959) of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (Moscow, Russia)(MISIS). Since 1910 after graduation from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute(KPI)
he worked at the steel works of the Russia South (Yuzovka, Yenakiyevo) and in the US. In 1929—1936 I. P. Bardin was one of the construction managers of the

Kuznetsk Kuznetsk ( rus, Кузне́цк, p=kʊzʲˈnʲetsk) is a town in Penza Oblast, Russia, located in the foothills of the Volga Upland, mainly on the left bank of the . Population: Administrative and municipal status Within Russia's framework ...

integrated iron-and-steel works (

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). Since 1937 he held leading positions in ferrous metallurgy (engineer in chief of the central directorate, chairman of the Technical Council of the People's Commissariat, deputy

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(minister) for ferrous metallurgy. From 1939 he was director of the Institute of Metallurgy of the USSR AS and since 1944 director of the Central research institute of ferrous metallurgy that has borne his name since 1960. Since 1942 he was made vice-president of USSR AS and from 1937 a Delegate of the USSR

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of the 1st-5th convocations.

Awards

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: *1958 - for the works for creating first industrial plants for continuous steel casting. Awarded with 7 orders of Lenin and medals.

References

External links

*Official site of MISIS

Outstanding MISIS Professors 1883 births 1960 deaths Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery Soviet metallurgists Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Heroes of Socialist Labour Recipients of the Lenin Prize Recipients of the Stalin Prize Recipients of the Order of Lenin {{Russia-physicist-stub