ИСТИНА

To the history of the participation of Russian chemists in the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry. Elena Zaitseva(Baum), Moscow State University The Academy of Sciences of the USSR became the National member-organization of IUPA only in the 1930.. It should be emphasized that the first official representative of the Academy was Academician A.Chichibabin, who lived in Paris since 1930. He represented the Academy of Sciences of the USSR at the 10th Conference of IUPAC in Liège. However, even before 1930, A.Chichibabin and V.N.Ipatiev were personally invited to the 9th conference in the Hague (1928). They were not included in the Union, but “took part in the conference as guests, but with all the rights of the representatives of the countries included the union”. The 1930s are the hard years of the gradual creation of the Iron Curtain between the Soviet Union and the international community. Soviet scientists practically did not participate in the activities of IUPAC during these years. Quite regularly, Russian scientists began to take part in the activities of the Union only after the end of World War II. In my paper based on open sources, interviews and private archives, I examine how different groups of Russian most renowned chemists succeeded in their efforts of reorganization and reorientation of activity of the Union so that it could readily and most effectively to respond to the global changes occurring in the world. Undoubtedly the greatest contribution to the IUPAC activities was made by its presidents. From the creation of the IUPAC in 1919 four Russian scientists headed this international association: Kondratiev V.N. (1967-1969), specialist in physical chemistry, full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (AS) from 1953; Koptyug V.A. (1987-1989), specialist in organic chemistry, full member of the USSR AS from 1979; Zamaraev K.I. (1994-1995), specialist in physical chemistry, full member of the USSR AS from 1987 and Tarasova N.P. (the president in 2016-2017), specialist in the field of the radiative-chemical synthesis, green chemistry, correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1997. Limited to the time of the mid-1990s my paper will discuss only three of them. So, holding a post of the Union President Kondratiev has worked hard to approach IUPAC activity to inquiries of the chemical industry. His memorandum (1967-1968) about reorganization of Division Committees and Commissions furthered substantively the activities of IUPAC units. Kondratiev took part in founding the CODATA ,the Committee on Data for Science and Technology – now it ensures data needs in a broad range of subjects. Paying a lot of attention to the development of computerization in chemical sciences Koptyug, in turn, initiated and successfully implemented within the limits of the IUPAC a project on creation of electronic databanks on the properties of chemical compounds. His original idea of formation "horizontal" interdisciplinary programs supposed the involvement of different divisions and commissions into cooperative work (1989). First started up «Chemistry and the Environment» (CEP). Its development led to the organization of similar specialized Division within IUPAC in 1995. Since the 1960s Professor Zamaraev was a member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. In 1987-1989 he was the president of the IUPAC Physical Chemistry Division. Holding a post of the Union President later he helped to improve the image chemistry in the eyes of the general public.