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The formation of the chemical EPR spectroscopy scientific school established by Academician V.V. Voevodskii (1917–1967) is described, as well as the history of the development of the instrumentation basis for this new field of science in the USSR. Designing the first EPR spectrometers for the chemical radio spectroscopy initiated the appearance of the new science instrumentation area in our country. Basing on the recollections of the scientists and engineers and using the archive materials the author restored the succession of the relevant events and the names of their participants.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author is grateful to Academicians Yu.N. Molin and Yu.D. Tsvetkov (Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences), whose recollections provided the basis for this article, as well as to the Candidates of Sciences (Chem.) M.V. Voevodskaya and A.B. Gagarina (Institute for Biochemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Doctor of Sciences (Phys.–Math.) Yu.A. Grishin (Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Academician D.G. Knorre (Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Doctor of Sciences (Chem.) A.I. Kokorin (Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences), the head of the scientific-organizational department A.V. Kretinina (Institute for Analytical Instrumentation of the Russian Academy of Sciences), one of the creators of the Electronic Photo Archive of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences I.Yu. Pavlovskaya (Institute of Informatics Systems of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Director of the Zavoiskii Museum-Laboratory I.I. Silkin (Kazan Federal University), Candidate of Sciences (History) I.G. Tarakanova (Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences), senior geophysicist I.V. Chib-rikin, and a veteran of the Engineering Department B.V. Yastrebov (Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences) for the memories and the documents provided.

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  1. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, 119992, Moscow, Russia

    V. V. Ptushenko

  2. Emanuel Institute for Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119334, Moscow, Russia

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Vasily Vitalievich Ptushenko, Cand. Sci. (Phys.–Math.), is a Researcher at A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, an Associate Scientist at N.M. Emanuel Institute for Biochemical Physics of RAS.

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Ptushenko, V.V. Chain Initiation. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 89, 84–90 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331619010088

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