St. Petersburg Mining University, St. Petersburg, Russia:

V. V. Vedernikov, Deputy Scientific Supervisor of the Mining Museum, Doctor of Historical Sciences, e-mail: vedernikov75@mail.ru

The article is devoted to the life and work of the professor of the Leningrad Mining Institute N.P. Aseev, the largest Soviet metallurgist of the period of the first Stalin five-year plans and the Great Patriotic War. His life and work were inextricably linked with the fate of his Alma mater – the Leningrad Mining Institute. Back in 1904, N. P. Aseev organized the first large educational and research metallurgical laboratory at the Mining Institute. His pedagogical activity as a professor has always been closely connected with production, he personally participated in research work on solving the most pressing issues of metallurgy, and especially issues of defense significance. The closest connection of lectures with laboratory and practical classes, discussion with students of the latest achievements of science and technology in the field of metallurgy led to the creation by N. P. Aseev of his own school of metallurgists, including researchers of non-ferrous and light metals and alloys. The greatest merit of N. P. Aseev is the development of the principles of scientific design of Soviet non-ferrous metallurgy enterprises. He participated as a consultant and expert in the creation of projects for all major non-ferrous metallurgy plants in the USSR. According to these projects, Volkhov and Dneprovsk aluminum plants (1930), magnesium plants (Dneprovsk, 1935; Solikamsk, 1936), Krasnouralsk copper smelter, Ridder lead, Belovo zinc plant, Tikhvin alumina plant, Ural aluminum plant, Balkhash and Sredneuralsk copper plants, Orsk (Yuzhuralnikel) and the Severonickel combine, the Ufaley nickel plant, etc. In 1934, on the basis of the research sector of the Mining Institute, under the scientific guidance of N. P. Aseev the “Nickel Group”, which immediately became the main center for all the most important research and development work on nickel and cobalt for the nickel industry, was organized.

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