Lev Yakovlevich Karpov

Lev Yakovlevich Karpov

Lev Yakovlevich Karpov ( Russian Лев Яковлевич Карпов * April 18 ^{. Jul} / 30th April  1879 ^greg. In Kiev , † 6. January 1921 in Moscow ) was a Ukrainian-Russian chemist and revolutionary .

Life

Karpov was one of three children of ruined businessman Yakov Pavlovich Karpov and his wife Maria Mikhailovna Karpova. He was a member of the Kampfbund for the liberation of the working class . Since 1898 he was a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDRP) . In 1900 he and others founded the Northern Union of Workers in Voronezh . In 1903 the Central Committee of the RSDRP sent him to Samara to organize and lead the party's Eastern section. In 1904 he became a member of the central committee of the RSDRP (until 1905) and went to Kiev as chairman of the southern section of the party . During the Russian Revolution in 1905 he took part in the Moscow uprising in December 1905 . From 1906 to 1907 he was secretary of the Moscow section of the RSDRP and was arrested several times.

Karpov studied at the Moscow Technical University with a degree in 1910. Afterwards he worked as a chemical engineer in the chemical industry and organized with others the Russian production of turpentine , chloroform , rosin and liquefied chlorine . In 1915 he became director of the Bondjuschski Zavod chemical plant at Bondjuga , which was founded in 1868 , where Dmitri Mendeleev had worked and which now bears Karpov's name.

After the October Revolution , Karpov became a member of the RSFSR's Supreme Council for Economics and head of the chemical industry department . Immediately in 1918 he founded the Central Chemical Laboratory in Moscow (now the Karpov Institute for Physical Chemistry ). He was also a member of the special commission to supply the Red Army .

Karpov died after a short illness and is buried in the Moscow necropolis on the Kremlin wall . He was married to Anna Samoilovna geb. Luwischuk (1883–1968), revolutionary and director of the Moscow Institute for Philosophy , Literature and History (1935–1940) and the Moscow Museum of History (1940–1962), whose younger sister Yevgenia Samoilovna Luwischuk married the revolutionary and economist Alexander Schlichter . The Karpovs had two sons, the engineer Juri and the chemist Wladimir , who married the sister of the physicists Alexander Leipunski and Owsei Leipunski . The granddaughter Irina Vladimirovna (* 1933), a doctor of physics and artist, married the mathematician Felix Beresin .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Great Soviet Encyclopedia : Karpov, Lev Iakovlevich (accessed September 2, 2016).
2. ↑ Lev Yakovlevich KARPOV (accessed on 2 September 2016).
3. ↑ АО Research Institute of Physics and Chemistry Lev Karpov (NIFHI) ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 2, 2016). 
4. ^ Biography Lev Karpow on history bmst; Retrieved September 2, 2016.