Formula of Victory: the Contribution of Chemical Scientists

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In 2025, we celebrate the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Thanks to the joint efforts of scientists in our country, along with production and the rear, from the first days of the war the front was provided with the necessary means of chemical protection, medical preparations, new materials for weapons and military equipment, fuel, defense equipment and much more. The breakthrough scientific results of the war period formed the basis of many academic and applied research areas after the war, contributed to the restoration of industry and the life of the state. The article contains a brief, far from exhaustive review of the contribution of outstanding chemical scientists
to solving the problems of defense and victory over the enemy during the Great Patriotic War.

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Alexander V. Kalashnik

State Budgetary Educational Institution School No. 199

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Email: journal@electronics.ru

Director, laureate of the competition Teacher of the Year of Moscow, author of the online lesson Formula of Victory: the contribution of chemists for the Victory Museum

Russian Federation, Moscow

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2. Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky, Hero of Socialist Labor, winner of three Stalin Prizes

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3. Guns of Victory: a – Soviet single-engine Yak-1 fighter aircraft. The only female aviation regiment of the Red Army fought on such fighters, as well as Alexei Maresyev, the prototype of the hero of Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy's "Tale of a Real Man"; b – the Soviet BM-13 Katyusha rocket artillery combat vehicle. The soldiers of the Third Reich called it "Stalin's organ" because of the sound produced by the tail of the missiles; b – T-34, the most massive tank of the Second World War and the post–war period; d - the most common self-propelled gun SU-76, index 76 in the name means the caliber of the guns.; d is the BA-64 armored car, which was actively used by Soviet troops mainly as reconnaissance vehicles, but also for direct infantry support; e is the Soviet Il–2 attack aircraft, the most massive combat aircraft in aviation history, more than 36 thousand units were produced. The designers called it a flying tank, and the Wehrmacht soldiers a concrete aircraft and the plague; the Mosin rifle, created back in the Russian Empire. It was also called a three-line, as its 7.62 mm caliber is equal to three lines. A line is an obsolete measure of length, equal to one tenth of an inch or 2.54 mm.; z – the Shpagin submachine gun, which was gradually replaced by the Kalashnikov assault rifle in the sixties of the 20th century; and - the Tokarev self–loading rifle (SVT), which the soldiers affectionately called "Svetka"; k – barrage balloons, which spoiled a lot of nerves for German pilots

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4. Nikolai Nikolaevich Semenov, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, twice Hero of Socialist Labor

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5. Alexander Erminingeldovich Arbuzov, Hero of Socialist Labor, Stalin Prize laureate

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6. Semyon Isaakovich Volfkovich, Stalin Prize laureate

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7. Alexander Naumovich Frumkin, Hero of Socialist Labor, winner of the Lenin and Stalin Prizes

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9. Sergey Semyonovich Nametkin, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Winner of two Stalin Prizes

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