About History

The Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technology (ICCT) of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS) was founded in 1981 on the basis of the department of platinum metals chemistry of Institute of Inorganic Chemistry SB RAS. The aim of establishing the Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies was to satisfy the essential need for the scientific support and coordination for several uprising industries of Krasnoyarsk region – chemical-metallurgical productions of nonferrous, rare and noble metals, as well as chemical processing of brown coal of Kansk-Achinsk basin and natural gas and petroleum deposits of Evenkiya.

The first director of the Institute was Professor S. P. Gubin, the distinguished scholar in the field of chemistry of coordination compounds and organo-metallic clusters. Academician G. K. Boreskov, the director of the Institute of Catalysis SB RAS, had contributed greatly to the structuring and equipping the Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies. He had initiated the establishing of the department of coal chemistry and sent a group of specialists from Institute of Catalysis to the newly formed Institute. During 1982-1989, the head of the Institute was A. I. Kholkin, the Corresponding Member of RAS, the well-known specialist in the field of chemical-metallurgical processes. Since 1989 the director of the Institute is Professor G. L. Pashkov, distinguished scientist specializing in technologies of non-ferrous, rare and noble metals.