OLEKSANDR POTAPENKO

The Vernadsky Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is one of the oldest scientific institutions of chemical profile founded in the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, a powerful center of chemical science in Ukraine. The history of its creation dates back to 1918, when the first president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, academician V.I. Vernadsky founded the Chemical Laboratory in Kyiv as a scientific institution within the Physics and Mathematics Department of the UAS. From 1920 to 1931, Academician V.O. Plotnikov was the head of the Chemical Laboratory and the Research Department of Chemistry of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, established in 1922. In 1929, the Research Institute of Chemistry of the People's Commissariat of Education was organized on the basis of the department. In 1931, it was merged with the Chemical Laboratory and consolidated within the Academy of Sciences as the Institute of Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. During the war and evacuation, it was merged with the Institute of Organic Chemistry, and in 1945, after returning to Kyiv, it was divided into the Institute of Organic Chemistry and the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In 1993 the Institute was named after V.I. Vernadsky.