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The paper reveals a small chapter of the history of the development of metallurgical science and technology in the Soviet Union. The point at issue is the development of scientific contacts between the American and Soviet metallurgical scientists in the second half of the 1950s. The successes of the USSR in the space race had demonstrated to the Western countries the real scientific and economic power of the country and thus shown both the unconstructiveness of the policy of isolation and the benefits of economic cooperation. The high level of development of metallurgical science and technology in the USSR had thus surprised the American specialists. The Ural Polytechnic Institute was one of those universities visited by the American guests. This paper is devoted to this chapter of history and continues the material published earlier.
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It should be noted that the cooperation existed between the metallurgists of the USSR and the USA in 1920–1930, as recalled us Yu.A. King, who was the unofficial reviewer for the previous paper. He rightly reminded that “from 1925 to 1935, many of our engineers and industrial leaders were invited to the USA and got acquainted with the work of all enterprises without restriction in information and visits. After the war, the situation had changed, and we caught up with the development of the Americans; moreover, they had something to see with us.”
Translation no. 4161. Bibliography Department. Central Scientific and Technical Library of the Central Research Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy. Glavnii-Proekt at the State Planning Committee of the USSR. Translator N.A. Smolyaninov. p. 76
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Zaparii, V.V., Zaparii, V.V. & Sheshukov, O.Y. Soviet Metallurgy in the Eyes of American Metallurgists: Second Half of the 1950s. Metallurgical Education—Comparative Analysis. Steel Transl. 52, 1056–1060 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0967091222110158
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