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also studied the reactivation of cellulose by means of freezing 

 and inclusion and slight esterification of the fibers. He investi- 

 gated the chemical composition of many wood species of the 

 U.S.S.R. and developed methods for obtaining sulfate and sulfite 

 cellulose from wood of larch (Larix daurica and L. sibirica) 

 with the utilization of its gum. He also developed a new synthe- 

 sizing reaction of acetylene and alkali on lignin and described 

 the action of ethylene-oxide on lignin. Nikitin was one of the 

 pioneers in the development of wood and cellulose chemistry 

 in the U.S.S.R. and he wrote several monographs on this sub- 

 ject. 

 Bibliography: 



Colloidal Solutions and Esters of Cellulose, 2nd ed. Lenin- 

 grad: 1933. 



Chemistry of Wood. Moscow-Leningrad: 1951. 

 and N. I. Klenkova. Quantity of non-freezing water in cellu- 

 lose fibers after swelling. Zhur. Priklad. Khim., 1954, 27, 

 #2, 171-180. 



and G. A. Petropavloskii . The production and the properties 

 of slightly substituted methyl- and carboxylmethyl cellulose. 

 1-2. Zhur. Priklad. Khim., 1956, 29, #10-11. 

 Methods of a Scientific Chemical Worker (Outlines from the 

 Past). Moscow-Leningrad: 1955. 



Die Chemie des Holzes. Akademie-Verlag: Berlin, 1955 

 (Germ, trans.) 



Chemistry of Wood and Cellulose. Moscow -Leningrad: 

 1962. 

 Biography: 



F. P. Komarov and S. D. Antonovskii . Nikolai Ignat'evich 

 Nikitin. Zhur. Obshchei Khim., 1950, #4, 557-562. 

 N. You. Solechnie. Nikolai Ignat'evich Nikitin. J. Appl. 

 Chem. U.S.S.R. 33, 521-528 (1960). (English trans.) 

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NIKOLAYEV, ANATOLH VASIL^EVICH (Chemist) 



A. V. Nikolayev was born November 27, 1902. He graduated 

 in 1924 from Leningrad University. In 1927-31 he was a leader 

 of the Pavlodar Salt Expedition of the Commission on the Study 

 of Natural Productive Forces of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sci- 

 ences and in 1931-35, of the Complex Kulundinsk Expedition of 

 the Soviet on the Study of the Productive Forces of the U.S.S.R. 



