Historical Note

The Institute of Solid State Chemistry of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISSC UB RAS)

The Institute of Solid State Chemistry of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISSC UB RAS) is one of the leading scientific centers concerned with fundamental and applied investigations in solid state physics and chemistry and materials science. 



The Institute (originally the Institute of Chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences) was established in Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg) in 1932. Situated in the Ural region, which is the stronghold of mining and metallurgy, our Institute made a great contribution to the development of this region by investigations into primary and generator resins, coals and oil, as well as the elaboration of methods for recovery of rare metals and physicochemical principles of metallurgical processes. In 1950s two new Institutes were established on the basis of the Institute of Chemistry: the Institute of Metallurgy and the Institute of Electrochemistry. 



In 1991, in view of changes in the leads of research and branching of laboratories of the organic profile into an independent institution, the Institute was reorganized into the Institute of Solid State Chemistry of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.