Ivan Pavlovich Bardin

Ivan Pavlovich Bardin – a Russian metallurgist, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Vice-President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labour. He was born on 1 (13) November 1883 in the village of Shiroky Ustup, Atkarsky Uyezd, Saratov Governorate (now Kalininsky District of Saratov Oblast). He graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. In 1910–1911 he worked at factories in the USA. Since 1917 he held managerial positions at metallurgical plants in the south of Russia (Yenakiieve, Makiivka, Dneprovsky). 

 

In 1929–1936 he was the chief engineer of Kuznetskstroy and the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Combine. In 1939–1945 he served as Deputy People’s Commissar of Ferrous Metallurgy of the USSR. He was Director of the Institute of Metallurgy of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1939), of the Ural Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1943), and of the Central Research Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy (from 1944), which has borne his name since 1960. 

 

During the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945) he led the Academy of Sciences’ efforts aimed at mobilizing the resources of the eastern regions of the USSR for defense needs. Bardin’s main works are devoted to the development of technology and the industrial implementation of oxygen for intensifying metallurgical processes, and to the creation of industrial continuous steel-casting installations. He was awarded seven Orders of Lenin. Ivan Pavlovich Bardin died on 7 January 1960 in Moscow.