Soviet metallurgy in the eyes of American metallurgists: the second half of the 1950s. Metallurgical education – comparative analysis

Abstract

The article reveals one small page from the history of development of metallurgical science and technology in the Soviet Union. We describe the establishment of scientific contacts between American and Soviet metallurgical scientists in the second half of the 1950s. The successes of the  USSR in the space race demonstrated to the Western countries the real scientific and economic power of the country, showing the unconstructiveness of the policy of isolation and the benefits of economic cooperation. American specialists discovered the high level of development of metallurgical science and technology in the USSR. Ural Polytechnical Institute (UPI) was one of those universities visited by American guests. This article is devoted to this page of the history; it is a  continuation of the authors’ material published earlier.