N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Senior research fellows, candidates of chemical sciences Vadim Ivanovich Garanin and Yakov Ilyich Isakov (left to right) during an experiment to find effective catalytic systems for petrochemical processes at the N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences. For a series of works devoted to the scientific foundations of creating new zeolite catalysts, scientists V.I. Garanin, Ya.I. Isakov, as well as their scientific supervisor, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Professor Khabib Minachevich Minachev were awarded the USSR State Prize for 1977. Yuri Lizunov/TASS