Stromberg Armin Genrikhovich

Born September 3 (16), 1910 in Breslau (Germany) in the family of a privat-docent of the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg. In 1927-1930 he studied at the Ural Polytechnic Institute under an accelerated curriculum in the electrochemical department of the chemistry faculty, graduating with a degree in chemistry with a specialization in electrochemistry and the qualification of an engineer-technologist. In 1930-1932 he was a junior researcher in the "magnesium group" of the Ural Research Institute of Chemical Industry (Sverdlovsk). From 1932 - junior researcher, senior researcher in the laboratory of electrochemistry of molten salts of the Ural Physicochemical Institute, which was a branch of the Moscow Physicochemical Institute named after L. Ya. Karpov, from 1936 at the Ural Institute of Physics and Technology of the USSR Academy of Sciences (UralPTI), from July 1939 – at the Institute of Chemistry and Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (ICHM UFAN, Sverdlovsk). On June 8, 1939, at a meeting of the Council of the Ural Industrial Institute, he defended his dissertation "On the Viscosity of Molten Salts" for the degree of Candidate of Chemical Sciences. On March 16, 1940, he was approved in the academic rank of senior researcher in the physical and chemical specialty.

In March 1942, he was formally mobilized into the army, but in fact, he was illegally repressed on the basis of his ethnicity and sent to a special NKVD labor camp for Soviet Germans in Nizhny Tagil, where he worked in a brick factory. He was released in September 1943 (rehabilitated in 1992) and returned to his previous position at UFAN, where he headed the analytical chemistry laboratory until August 1950. In August 1950, he transferred to teaching at Ural University (Sverdlovsk) as an associate professor in the Department of Physical and Colloid Chemistry, and from July 1954, he became a professor in this department. In November 1951, at a meeting of the Academic Council of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Theory and practice of polarography and amalgam polarography in particular.” On February 14, 1953, he was approved for the academic degree of Doctor of Chemical Sciences, and on October 3, 1953, he was awarded the academic title of Professor in the Department of Physical Chemistry.

On May 16, 1956, the TPI Academic Council elected him through a competition as head of the Department of Physical and Colloid Chemistry, a position he held until 1985. For 23 years, he served as the scientific director of the Trace Impurities Laboratory, organized in December 1962, within the TPI Department of Physical and Colloid Chemistry. From 1986 until his death, he served as a consulting professor in the same department. He died on September 18, 2004, and was buried in Baktin Cemetery.

Family:

• Father - Genrikh Genrikhovich (1883-1914), from the family of a merchant from Narva who died early, doctor of medicine, associate professor at the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg (surgery), died at the front of the First World War while providing medical care to the wounded.
• His mother, Magda Robertovna (1885-1972), was born in Yekaterinburg to a chemical engineer. In 1909, she graduated from the Bestuzhev Women's Higher Courses in St. Petersburg with a degree in physics and mathematics. After her husband's death, she moved to Yekaterinburg to live with her relatives. In 1920, she remarried to A.V. Vorobyov and worked for over 40 years (1920-1960) as an assistant and associate professor in the Department of General Inorganic Chemistry at the Ural Polytechnic Institute (UPI).
• Wife - Lidiya Mikhailovna (Poponina) (1912-1972) - senior lecturer at the Department of Physics at TPU (1956-1962).
• Daughter - Elsa Arminovna Zakharova (b. 1938), candidate of chemical sciences, associate professor of the Department of Administrative and Chemical Sciences of Tomsk State University, now (since 1993) analyst-methodologist of the laboratory of the Department of the Faculty of Chemical and Technical Sciences of Tomsk Polytechnic University.
• Son-in-law - Boris Nikolaevich Poizner (b. 1941), candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, associate professor of the Department of Nonlinear Optics at Tomsk State University.
• Granddaughter - Olga Yuryevna Stromberg (b. 1962), candidate of medical sciences, now a general practitioner in one of the clinics in Stockholm (Sweden).