“Ore and Metals” Publishing House, Moscow, Russia¹; National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI”², Moscow, Russia:

A. V. Putilov, Chief Editor of “Tsvetnye Metally” journal¹, Dean of a Faculty of Management and Economics of High Technologies², e-mail: AVPutilov@mephi.ru
A. G. Vorobev, Head of a Chair of Economics², Chief Editor¹

Nuclear branch is one of few Russian high-technological branches of industry, developing and existing in post-perestroyka period. One of outstanding leaders of Russian nuclear industry was Avraami Pavlovich Zavenyagin, who was the Minister of Medium Machine-Building of USSR in his last years. This article is a brief review of activity of A. P. Zavenyagin, who understood the great dependence of «nuclear metals» and made a great contribution to transform them from ordinary elements in Periodic Table into the large-capacity industrial products.

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