Volsky, Anton Nikolaevich

His father graduated from the Stroganov Central School of Technical Drawing with the title of scientist draftsman. In 1890 he was arrested and sent to a settlement in Siberia for his participation in the revolutionary movement. Mother - midwife, after the arrest of her husband left with him in Siberia.

In 1908-1917, Anton Volsky studied at the Moscow Industrial School, having received the specialty of a chemical technician.

In 1920, A. N. Volsky entered the 2nd year of the Faculty of Technology at the Institute of National Economy named after G.V. Plekhanova , who graduated in 1924 with a diploma project on the subject “Design of a Copper Electrolyte Refining Plant” and was sent to the Technical Bureau for designing a plant for electrolytic refining of copper and organizing the production of metal fittings for high-voltage insulators (1924-1928) .

At the same time, Volsky taught physics at the labor faculty at the 1st Moscow State University (1922-1925) and was a senior assistant at the Institute of National Economy (1926-1929).

In 1928, A. N. Volsky moved to the non-ferrous metallurgy department of the Institute of Applied Mineralogy, in 1930 - to the Research Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals (Gintsvetmet) ^[2] , where he went from a research engineer to a deputy director for science (1936-1937) .

Engaged in scientific work, he continued teaching at Moscow universities: Moscow Mining Academy (1928–1930), Moscow Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals and Gold (1930–1958) ^[3] , Moscow State University (1931–1933).

In 1940, A. N. Volsky was awarded the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences ^[4] .

During the Great Patriotic War Volsky worked in Moscow: he fulfilled the special tasks of the People’s Commissariat of Ammunition and the People’s Commissariat of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy .

In 1946, Volsky was invited as a consultant to the metallurgical laboratory of the newly created closed institute NII-9 (now VNIINM ). For a series of closed-topic works at this institute, performed in 1946–1949 and in 1950–1953, he was twice awarded the Stalin Prize of the 1st degree (1949 and 1953). In 1960, A.N. Volsky was appointed deputy director of NII-9.

At the end of 1948, he was included in the NII-9 brigade (modern VNIINM ), seconded to the Mayak chemical plant . A. N. Volsky led metallurgical issues in the production of weapons-grade plutonium ^[5] . The general management of the project was carried out by the director of the plant Z. P. Lysenko and the chief engineer of base 10 E. P. Slavsky . The team of employees of the pilot industrial production team was responsible for scientific developments, headed by academicians A. A. Bochvar , I. I. Chernyaev , doctors of sciences A. N. Volsky, A. S. Zaimovsky , A. D. Gelman and V. D Nikolsky ^[6] .

October 23, 1953 A.N. Volsky was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the Department of Technical Sciences; June 10, 1960 - full members of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1965).

He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery .

A significant group of works by A.N. Volsky is devoted to chemical equilibria in melts and the physical chemistry of metallurgical melts, and the application of the laws of chemical equilibria in melts to the theory of non-ferrous metallurgical melts was applied by scientists for the first time in the world. Based on these studies, Volsky developed a physicochemical theory of the main types of metallurgical swimming trunks used in non-ferrous metallurgy: reduction melting, oxidative refining of metals, smelting of ores for matte, seedless maturation, refining of metals from sulfur and using sulfur, etc. The results of these many years of work are reflected in periodicals and in books: The Theory of Metallurgical Processes (1935) and The Fundamentals of Theory of Metallurgical Processes (1943).

Another group of theoretical works by A. N. Volsky was devoted to the study of the physical chemistry of sulfide oxidation processes, on the basis of which he developed the theory of sulfide ore calcination processes.

Wolsky’s theoretical work is closely connected with a set of works devoted to resolving important industrial issues of non-ferrous metallurgy: development of a technology for the production of white arsenic from arsenic ores, on the basis of which two plants were built in the USSR; development of an original method for the redistribution of waste from lead and zinc plants that were not previously processed, which was successfully carried out in 1936 at the Ukrtsink plant in a specially constructed workshop; a new method for refining lead from bismuth using magnesium and calcium, introduced into the practice of lead plants and of great importance for the defense industry; the development of a number of technological schemes for processing ores of Central Asia, the Urals and other regions, as well as the rationalization of the extraction of cobalt from nickel ores, etc.

• Volsky Anton Nikolaevich on the site of IS ARAN.
• Volsky Anton Nikolaevich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.