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the reconstruction of the Karabashskii Copper Smelting Plant 

 from 1925 to 1927. In 1927-30, he was chief metallurgist of the 

 Urals Copper Trust (Uralmed) and Deputy Technical Director. 

 In 1930, he was appointed lecturer at the Ural Institute of Non- 

 Ferrous Metals. He became a professor, in 1933, at the Ural 

 Polytechnic Institute. In 1938 he was awarded the degree of 

 Doctor of Technical Sciences. He is the recipient of two Orders 

 of the Red Banner of Labor and a medal for "Valiant Labor 

 during WWII." He was elected to the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sci- 

 ences as a Corresponding Member in 1946, and became an 

 Academician of the Kazakh S.S.R. Academy of Sciences in 1954. 



Smirnov was sent abroad in 1928 on a scientific mission 

 where he became acquainted with the operation of non-ferrous 

 metallurgical plants of the United States and Canada. Upon his 

 return he published a number of studies devoted to the scien- 

 tific research and practical work of several American and 

 Canadian copper smelting plants. 



Smirnov' s investigation is in the smelting of copper and 

 nickel ores and concentrates. 



Smirnov was an active participant in the Altai Session on the 

 Development of the Productive Forces of this region. He is 

 scientific consultant of the Institute of Metallurgy and Ore- 

 Dressing of the Altai Mining and Metallurgical Institute of the 

 Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh S.S.R. 

 Bibliography: 



Hydrometallurgy of Copper. Sverdlovsk-Moscow: 1947. 



Metallurgy of Copper and Nickel. Sverdlovsk-Moscow: 



1950. 



Reflection Smelting (Theory and Practice), 3rd ed. 



Sverdlovsk-Moscow: 1952. 



Shaft Smelting in the Metallurgy of Non- Ferrous Metals. 



Sverdlovsk: 1955. 



Pyrometallurgy of Copper. 



The Firing of Copper Ores and Concentrates. 

 Office: Ural Polytechnic Institute of Kazakh SSR Academy 



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 Telephone: Dl 37 08 



SMIRNOV, VASILII SERGEEVICH (Metallurgist) 



V. S. Smirnov was born in 1915. He graduated from the 

 Ural Polytechnical Institute in 1937, and in 1937-38 and again 

 in 1941-42, he worked in industry. From 1938 to 1941 he was 



