The Moscow state institute of steel and alloys: past, present, and future (on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Moscow mining academy)

摘要

On September 14, 1918, the Moscow MiningAcademy was established by decree of the council of people'scommissars. The academy graduated its first class of metallurgicalengineers in 1924. Among the founders of the first research andleaching departments of the Academy were such distinguishedmetallurgical scientists as Academicians A. A. Baikov, M. A.Pavlov, and N. P Chizhevskii and Professors V. E. Grum-Grzhimailo, N. A. Minkevich, K. P Grigorovich, M. A. Bochvat;and G. G. Urazov. They knew how to instill a devotion to scienceand a civic spirit to their students, many of who eventually accededto prominent positions in government, industry, and academia.Among those students: A. P Zavenyagin, the first director of theMoscow Steel Institute and later director of the Magnitogorsk andNoril'sk metallurgical combines and Vice-Chairman of theCouncil of Ministers of the USSR; L F Tevosyan, Minister ofShipbuilding, then Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy and also vice-Chairman of the Council of Ministers; V P Elyutin, Director of theMoscow Steel institute and later Minister of Higher Education ofthe USSR; V S. Emel'yanov Chairperson of the Committee onStandards and then Vice-Chair of the Committee on AtomicEnergy; P F Lomako, Minister of Nonferrous Metallurgy of theUSSR; A. M. Samarin, Director of the institute of Metallurgy ofthe Academy of Sciences of the USSR.In 1930, six large educational institutions were established on thebasis of the schools of the Moscow Mining Academy: the Mininginstitute, institute of Ferrous Metallurgy (since 1931, the Steelinstitute), institute of Nonferrous Metals and Gold, Peat institute,Petroleum institute, institute of Geological Prospecting. Therewere 675 students in the first course given in the metallurgicalengineering school of the Steel institute in 1930. In 1962, the SteelInstitute absorbed the metallurgy and metallography schools of theinstitute of Nonferrous Metals and Gold and was given a newname - the Moscow institute of Steel and Alloys (MISiS). It gainedthe status of an engineering university in 1993. On the one hand,this change was a form of recognition of its achievements inresearch. On the other hand, it also gave the organizationadditional responsibilities in regard to the content of itscurriculum, its research activities, and other functions. Thechanged status means that at MISiS the instructional process isgrounded in basic science and encompasses a wide range ofdisciplines in the natural, applied, and social sciences.