On the Contribution of Professor Vladimir Andreevich Mozharov to the Development of Metallurgy in the 20th Century

The article presents the research results of the scientific and pedagogical activities of an outstanding metallurgist of the first half of the 20th century, Professor Vladimir Andreevich Mozharov. The scientist’s formative years and motives for his interest in metallurgy are discussed. Based on archival data, it was found that the active production activity of Vladimir Andreevich Mozharov began after his graduation from the St. Petersburg Mining Institute in 1907. Since the end of 1916, Mozharov headed the Nikolaev Metallurgical Plants in Irkutsk. From March 1920 to the beginning of 1922, Mozharov worked at the Irkutsk Council of National Economy. In the years 1922–1925, Mozharov served as deputy chairman of the Irkutsk Provincial Executive Committee and the Planning Commission. Due to a serious illness of the eldest son, the family was forced to move to Kharkov. In November 1925, Vladimir Andreevich Mozharov became the Chief Metallurgist of the Board of the Southern Machine-Building Trust. From the end of 1929, Vladimir Andreevich worked at the Kharkov Institute of Metals as head of the steelmaking group, head of the department of heat power engineering of metallurgical processes, and then deputy director for scientific work. The most famous work carried out under the leadership of Vladimir Andreevich Mozharov in the 1930s was the development of the technology for producing ARMCO iron and Tonсan technical iron. During the evacuation in 1941–1943, works under the leadership of Vladimir Andreevich Mozharov were carried out to intensify melting and pressure processing of steel ingots, to replace Ukrainian iron ores with Ural and Kuznetsk ones, and to use technology for producing ferroalloys from local ores. After returning to Kharkov, the scientist led the restoration of Ukraine’s Institute of Metals and metallurgical enterprises destroyed by the war. Vladimir Andreevich Mozharov passed away at the end of 1952. The article analyzes some interesting, forgotten and little-known facts of the biography of the outstanding metallurgist, scientist and teacher Vladimir Andreevich Mozharov, which are an integral and important part of the history of metallurgy of the 20th century.