Sergey Nametkin received his primary education at the first Progymnasium in Kazan.
17 Facts About Sergey Nametkin
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In 1886, the family moved to Moscow, and soon, at the age of 12, Sergei Sergey Nametkin was left an orphan.
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Since 1910, Sergey Nametkin combined teaching at the university with work at the Moscow Higher Women Courses, where he was invited as an assistant in the department of organic chemistry.
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From 1914 to 1918 Sergey Nametkin held the positions of secretary and dean of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the MVZhK.
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In 1925, the State Petroleum Research Institute was created at the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the USSR, in which Sergey Nametkin simultaneously worked as a teacher at the second Moscow State University, head of the department of chemistry and technology.
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Sergey Nametkin headed the organized department of organic chemistry and petroleum chemistry at the Petroleum Faculty of the Moscow Mining Academy.
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Since 1930, Sergey Nametkin became one of the leading professors at MITHT, created on the basis of the chemical faculty of the second Moscow State University.
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Sergey Nametkin worked at MITHT until 1938, when he moved to Moscow University, to the Faculty of Chemistry, where he headed the Department of Organic Chemistry.
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Sergey Nametkin's laboratory analyzed captured fuel and lubricating oils and developed new types of them.
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In 1947, Sergey Nametkin's laboratory was transferred to the Petroleum Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, that was separated from IGI.
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In 1948, Sergey Nametkin was appointed director of the Petroleum Institute and held this position until his death in the summer of 1950.
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Sergey Nametkin was a member of the oldest scientific society of Moscow University, the Moscow Society of Naturalists.
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Sergey Nametkin was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
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Sergey Nametkin's attention was on general theoretical problems of organic chemistry.
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Sergey Nametkin studied the composition and properties of oil and gas from various fields of the country, developed approaches to solving the problems of petrochemical synthesis, in particular the oxidation of paraffin into alcohols and aldehydes and the production of detergents.
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Sergey Nametkin conducted work in the field of the synthesis of aroma compounds and growth stimulants.
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Sergey Nametkin was married to Lydia Nikolaevna Lyapunova, sister of the railway engineer Andrei Nikolaevich Lyapunov.