15 Facts About Nikolay Zelinsky

Nikolay Zelinsky was a professor at Moscow University from 1893 and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.

Nikolay Zelinsky was one of the founders of theory on organic catalysis.

Nikolay Zelinsky was the inventor of the first effective filtering activated charcoal gas mask in the world.

At the age of ten, Nikolai Nikolay Zelinsky entered the Tiraspol district school for two-year courses to prepare for entering the gymnasium.

Nikolay Zelinsky was given an appointment at the university and was sent to Germany.

Nikolay Zelinsky did research for two years, first he worked in the laboratory of Johannes Wislicenus in Leipzig.

Nikolay Zelinsky was invited to Moscow University on the initiative of Dmitri Mendeleev.

On 10 July, 1941 Nikolay Zelinsky joined the Scientific and Technical Council for the development and testing of scientific works related to military defense, chaired by the authorized State Defense Committee, Professor Sergei Kaftanov.

Nikolay Zelinsky took part in work to improve the quality of aviation gasolines and lubricating oils.

Nikolay Zelinsky supervised work on finding ways to rationally use the products of primary processing of solid fuels - coal, shale and peat.

Nikolay Zelinsky was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery, and a headstone was made by Nilolai Nikoghosyan.

In 1915, Nikolay Zelinsky successfully used oxide catalysts for oil cracking, which led to a decrease in the process temperature and an increase in the yield of aromatic hydrocarbons.

Nikolay Zelinsky improved the reaction of catalytic conversion of acetylene into benzene by suggesting the use of activated carbon as a catalyst.

Nikolay Zelinsky created a large scientific school and its scientists made fundamental contributions to various fields of chemistry.

In Tiraspol, in the house in which Nikolay Zelinsky spent his childhood, there is a memorial house-museum of the academician, and on the building of school No 6, where he studied, a memorial plaque was erected, a monument was erected in front of the building; in the Kirovsky district of Tiraspol there is a street named after Nikolay Zelinsky.