Krasnoiarsk Institute of Nonferrous Metals

(full name, M. I. Kalinin Krasnoiarsk Institute of Nonferrous Metals), an institute founded in Moscow in 1930 as the Institute of Nonferrous Metals and Gold. In 1940 it was named in honor of M. I. Kalinin. The institute was moved to Krasnoiarsk in 1958.

During the 1972–73 academic year, the institute had the following departments: mining, metallurgy, technology, electrical engineering, evening and correspondence, preparatory, and graduate. There were 28 subdepartments and a library with over 330,000 volumes. During the 1972–73 academic year, more than 5,000 students were enrolled at the institute; there were approximately 400 instructors, including seven professors and doctors of sciences and more than 100 docents and candidates of sciences. Between 1930 and 1972 the institute graduated more than 13,000 specialists. In 1970 the Krasnoiarsk Institute of Nonferrous Metals was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.