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 N.V. Belov, B.K. Vainshtein, and A.V. Shubnikov |
1925 Organization of the Laboratory of Crystallography at the
Mineralogical Museum of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Leningrad). 1934 Organization of the Crystallography Sector at the Lomonosov Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Petrography of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow). 1937 Organization of the Crystallograhy Laboratory at the USSR Academy of Sciences (Division of Gelological-Geographical Sciences). |
 Village of Filatovo (Ural, 1942-1943) |
1941 (fall) Evacuation of the Laboratory to the Sverdlovsk Region, Ural. |
 Institute building at Pyzhevskii per. 10 (Moscow) |
1943 (spring) Return to Moscow. |
 A.V. Shubnikov, the first Director of the Institute |
November 16, 1943 the Crystallography Laboratory is transferred to the
Division of the Physical-Mathematical Sciences and is renamed the Institute of
Crystallography of the USSR Academy of Sciences. February 9, 1944 Organization of the Institute of Crystallography. Professor Aleksei Vasil'evich Shubnikov is appointed its first director. |
 Institute main building at Leninskii pr. 59 (Moscow) |
1961 the Institute of Crystallography moves to new buildings at Leninskii pr. 59. |
 Academician B.K. Vainshtein |
1962 Professor Boris Konstantinovich Vainshtein is appointed the Director of the Institute. |
 Academician N.V. Belov |
An outstanding crystallographer, Full Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Academician) Nikolai Vasil'evich Belov, worked at the Institute of Crystallography for more than 40 years. He was awarded the Honorary title Hero of Socialist Labor and also the Lenin and several State prizes. |
 Academician A.V. Shubnikov |
1969 the Institute of Crystallography is awarded the Order of the Red
Banner of Labor. 1971 the Institute of Crystallography is officially named after Alexei Vasil'evich Shubnikov, who was twice awarded the honorary title Hero of the Socialist Labor. |
 Institute building at ul. Butlerova 17a |
1981 the Institute received additional new building at ul. Butlerova 17. |
| October 28, 1996 Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Academician) Boris Konstantinovich Vainshtein passed away. Vainshtein headed the Institute of Crystallography for thirty four years. | |
 Professor V.I. Simonov |
1996 Professor V.I. Simonov is appointed to fulfill the functions of the director. |
 Professor B.G. Zakharov |
1997 the Space Materials Science Research Center is organized on the basis of the Division of the Institute of Crystallography in the city of Kaluga, Moscow oblast. The center is headed by Professor B.G. Zakharov. |
 Professor M.V. Koval'chuk |
1998 Professor Mikhail Valentinovich Koval'chuk is elected the Director of the Institute of Crystallography. |
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