The importance and role of Siberian-Physical Technical Institute in the development of chemistry in Tomsk State University

The article describes the history of chemistry becoming and developing as a science at Tomsk State University, with historical data on leading researchers and the work they engaged in. Since 1928, the formation and development of chemical science and chemical education at the first higher educational institution in Siberia became closely connected with the opening that year of the first scientific institution beyond the Urals, the Siberian Physical-Technical Institute (SFTI), which in 1932 was included in the system of Tomsk State University (TSU). In the 1930s, this association could already be regarded as a scientific and educational complex, which throughout the world is called a research university. The emergence of the topics of scientific research and the reasons for the allocation of individual departments in the 1930s are described. For the entire period offormation, the subjects of the Institute were grouped in the following laboratories: laboratory of molecular physics, laboratory of physical chemistry, radio-laboratory, laboratory of electronic phenomena, x-ray laboratory, theoretical department, and laboratory of electronic chemistry of organic compounds. The last of them was from June 1, 1933, separated from the Institute and included in the complement of the Department of Organic Chemistry of TSU as an independent research laboratory of organic chemistry at the Chemical Faculty of TSU. The works of M.I. Usanovicha, L.E. Sabininoq, B.V. Tronov, L.G. Maidanovskaya, G.V. Mayer, N.A. Prilegaeva, A.N. Soldatov, and V.A. Presnov are described, as are the works performed at the Innovation of Technology Center of SPTI (ITC SPTI)(head of the laboratory, Doctor of Chemical Sciences V.I. Sachkov) and others. To date, ITC SPTI, one of the youngest subdivisions of the Institute since its inception in 2005, has performed a general volume of research and contract work of more than 1 billion Rub, has published more than 10 monographs on different areas of chemical science, and received more than 25 patents of the Russian Federation. Since 2014, an international symposium has been organized and conducted on fundamental questions of exploration, production, and separation of rare and rare-earth elements and creation of modern materials based on them. The topics of the works presented are enumerated along with the basic results of the projects, and monographs prepared and published.

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