LOCATION:   Moscow
Address:  9 Miusskaya Ploshchad, Moscow, 125047
Telephone:  (095) 978-8660
FAX: (095) 200-4204
[Mendeleyev University Home Page, http://www.muctr.ru.] {Updated 3/16/04 CC}
HOMEPAGE:   http://www.muctr.ru/english {Entered 3/16/04 CC}
ADMINISTRATION:
Rector:  Pavel Dzhibrayelovich Sarkisov
[Mendeleyev University Home Page, http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/chem/MUCT/]
BACKGROUND:
D. I. Mendeleyev Russian Chemical-Technological University began as an Industrial School in 1898, was reorganized as the Moscow Chemical College in 1918, and re-named the Mendeleyev Institute of Chemical Technology in 1920.  The university was given its present name in 1993.
[Mendeleyev University Home Page, http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/chem/MUCT/]
ACTIVITIES:
The university educates students in a "flexible" chemical engineering program that includes "practical training at leading centers of chemical science and education abroad."  Since 1946, the university has trained over 2,500 students from 76 foreign countries.  The university has a faculty exchange program with higher educational institutions in the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germay, China, and other countries.[1]
 
The Department of Rare and Trace Elements Technology trains students in producing materials for industrial applications including nuclear power engineering and rocket construction.  The Department of Isotopes and Extra-Pure Substances Technology has recently begun investigating nuclear fuel cycles for thermonuclear reactors.  The Department of Radiation Chemistry and Radiochemistry trains students in the area of radiation technology and the use of electron accelerators as radiation sources.  The Department of Electrochemical Processes studies electrochemical processes used in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, shipbuilding, radio engineering, and so forth. [2]
Sources:
[1] Mendeleyev University Home Page, http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/chem/MUCT/
[2] Description of Faculties, Mendeleyev University Home Page, http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/chem/MUCT/Faculty.html  {Entered 1/12/99 LBN}
STRUCTURE:
The Mendeleyev Russian Chemical-Technological University has seven colleges, 13 faculties, and over 50 departments, including the following:
Intercollegiate Center for Studies in Physical Chemistry
General Engineering Faculty
Faculty of Organic Compounds Technology
Faculty of Inorganic Compounds Technology
Department of Electrochemical Processes
Faculty of Silicates Chemical technology
Faculty of Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Cybernetics of Industrial Chemical Processes
Faculty of Polymers Chemical Technology
Faculty of Engineering Physical Chemistry
Department of Rare and Trace Elements Technology
Department of Isotopes and Extra-Pure Substances Technology
Department of Radiation Chemistry and Radiochemistry
Faculty of Engineering Ecology
Faculty of Economics
The Higher Chemical College of Composite Materials
[Description of Faculties, Mendeleyev University Home Page, http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/chem/MUCT/Faculty.html]
 
ARCHIVED MENDELEYEV UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENTS (For more recent developments, see the Nuclear Research Facilities Developments file; for more information on nuclear trade between Russia and Iran please see the Russian Nuclear and Missile Exports to Iran section):

3/17/99: ADAMOV OFFERS DEAL TO LIFT SANCTIONS ON NUCLEAR INSTITUTES
Minister of Atomic Energy Yevgeniy Adamov said in an interview with the New York Times on 17 March 1999 that Russia had proposed that the United States lift all sanctions imposed on two leading Russian nuclear research centers in exchange for the complete cessation of the centers’ cooperation with Iran. The aim of the proposal is to reinstate valuable contracts between the United States and the institutions. Adamov proposed signing a separate agreement for each institution: one for the Scientific Research and Design Institute of Energy Technologies (NIKIET)and one for the D.I. Mendeleyev Russian Chemical-Technological University. NIKIET was preparing a contract to sell a research reactor to Iran, but the Russian government decided not to sell the reactor. A US expert said that NIKIET was the focus of US concerns, because it is the principal Russian entity that could have provided assistance beyond the Bushehr nuclear power plant. The D.I. Mendeleyev Russian Chemical-Technological University provided unclassified information on heavy water technologies to Iran.[1] According to a senior US official, Adamov allegedly has Prime Minister Primakov's support for putting forward the proposals.[2] Adamov also said that Russia had questions for the United States regarding its activities in the nuclear energy sector in Pakistan.[2] Under Adamov’s proposal, a procedure would be established to resolve future disputes regarding the provision of Russian nuclear technology to Iran. The US Department of Energy has reportedly been so worried about the safety implications of the sanctions that it secretly appealed to the White House, asking that some exceptions be made so that important safety work could go forward, a US official said.[3]
Sources:
[1] Michael R. Gordon, "Russia to Offer U.S. Deal to End Iran Nuclear Aid," New York Times, 17 March 1999.
[2] "Russia to Expand Peaceful Nuclear Programs in Iran," Interfax, No.2, 17 March 1999.
[3] "Moskva gotova svernut raboty s Iranom v obmen na snyatiye SShA sanktsiiy v otnoshenii dvukh rossiyskikh yadernykh NII," Interfax, No.1, 17 March 1999. {entered 4/27/99 FW} 
 
1/14/99: FSB SAYS SANCTIONED INSTITUTES DID NOT VIOLATE EXPORT CONTROLS
The Public Relations Center of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) stated that thorough checks on the three institutes accused of supplying nuclear and missile technology to Iran (the Scientific Research and Design Institute of Energy Technologies (NIKIET), the Moscow Aviation Institute, and the D. I. Mendeleyev Russian Chemical-Technological University) have shown that the organizations did not violate nonproliferation export control requirements. The FSB statement suggested that the US sanctions may have resulted from misunderstandings or incomplete work by US intelligence agencies, and said that the decision to impose sanctions indicates US bias against Russian agencies that cooperate with Iran and other foreign countries.
["FSB RF zayavlyayet ob otsutstvii narusheniy trebovaniy eksportnogo kontrolya tremy rossiyskimi organizatsiyami," Interfax, No.1, 14 January 1999.]{entered 3/22/99 FW}
 
1/13/99: SERGEYEV DENIES MISSILE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TO IRAN
Russian Minister of Defense Igor Sergeyev said that control over nonproliferation of nuclear missile technologies does exist in Russia.  Commenting on the imposition of sanctions by the United States on three Russian research institutes (the Scientific Research and Design Institute of Energy Technologies (NIKIET), the Moscow Aviation Institute, and the D. I. Mendeleyev Russian Chemical-Technological University), Sergeyev said that those institutes could not supply Iran with missile technologies that they do not possess. Sergeyev further commented that the US decision to apply sanctions was a pretext for something not yet clear, and that while every country has the right to apply sanctions, what the United States has done is unethical.
["V Rossii yest kontrol za nerasprostraneniyem raketno-yadernykh tekhnologii-Minoborony," Interfax, No.1, 13 January 1999.]{entered 3/19/99 FW}

1/13/99: SARKISOV SAYS MENDELEYEV UNIVERSITY DID NOT TRANSFER  MISSILE TECHNOLOGY
Pavel Sarkisov, rector of the D.I. Mendeleyev Russian Chemical-Technical University, said that his university had nothing to do with the sale of missile technology to Iran.  Sarkisov said that the university deals with the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy, that the Department of Physical Chemistry trains specialists and conducts studies of zirconium for the nuclear industry, but this research is not secret and does not involve the export of nuclear technology. Sarkisov added that the university has no contracts with Iran in the areas of zirconium research or the burial of spent nuclear fuel, and has not trained personnel for Iran in the past 15 years, although an Iranian post-graduate at the university is conducting non-military-related research on the synthesis of polystyrene.
["RKhTU im. Mendeleyeva oprovergayet fakt prodazhi raketnykh tekhnologiy Iranu," Interfax, No.2, 13 January 1999.]{entered 2/22/99 FW}
 
1/12/99:  THREE RUSSIAN ENTITIES SANCTIONED
On 12 January 1999, the White House Press Secretary announced that the US government instituted sanctions against three Russian organizations for "materially contributing to Iran's nuclear weapons and missile programs."  The sanctions forbid exports and US government assistance to, or imports and US government procurements from, the following: the Scientific Research and Design Institute for Energy Technologies (NIKIET), the D. I. Mendeleyev Russian Chemical-Technological University, and the Moscow Aviation Institute.  The sanctions apply only to the three entities, not to the Russian government or the country as a whole.  The White House reaffirmed its intentions to work with Russia to help it enforce its laws and international obligations in the sphere of nonproliferation and export controls.
For more information, please see the Russian Nuclear Exports to Iran section of the NIS Nuclear Profiles Database, in particular the Research Reactors subsection.
["Trade Penalties Against Three Russian Entities," Statement of the White House Press Secretary, 12 January 1999, http://www.usia.gov/current/news/topic/intrel/
99011202.wpo.html?/products/washfile/newsitem.shtml] {Entered 1/12/99 LBN}

Last updated 8 July 2004 

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