Academician A.V. Nikolaev – Organizer of Scientiﬁc Research in Inorganic Chemistry in the Siberian Branch of Academy of Sciences of the USSR
The paper considers activities of Academician A.V. Nikolaev – an outstanding scientist and ﬁrst director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of Academy of Sciences of the USSR/ Russian Academy of Sciences. He organized scientiﬁc research in the branch of learning new for Siberia; formed a research team and a system of staff training for specialists in inorganic chemistry. On A.V. Nikolaev’s initiative scientiﬁc centers of chemical studies were created in Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk and Kemerovo. Nowadays the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry named after A.V. Nikolaev is an acclaimed center of fundamental and applied research as a part of the Russian Academy of Sciences.