Ivan Pavlovich Bardin (11/13/1883, Shiroky Ustug- 07.01.1960) was an outstanding scientist and metallurgist with a worldwide reputation. He was academician of the USSR (1932), Hero of Socialist Labor (1945), holder of 7 Orders of Lenin and other awards, winner of the Lenin and state Prize of the USSR, the organizer and leader of many steel factories, Central Science Research Institute of ferrous metallurgy, Institute of Metallurgy of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the graduate of the KPI in 1910.
After graduating KPI I.P. Bardin in 1910-1911 worked as a worker at American factories. On his return to Ukraine, he first worked at Yuzovsky metallurgical plant, and in 1916-1923 years - Yenakiyevo Steel Plant as the blast furnace shop chief, chief engineer, director of the plant and mines. In 1924-1929 he was the Chief Engineer of Makeevsky plant and then plant of Dzerzhinsky in Kamensky. Since 1929 Bardin supervised the construction of huge for that time Kuznetsk Metallurgical Combine.
In 1932 I.P. Bardeen was elected a full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1939 he was appointed the Deputy Commissar of Ferrous Metallurgy of the USSR, Chairman of the Presidium of the Ural Branch. In 1942 he was elected vice-president of the Academy of Sciences USSR. From 1943 to 1960 he headed the Department of Economics and the steel industry at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. From 1944 and until his last days he was the director of created on his initiative Central Research Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
In the postwar years, I.P. Bardin took a lot of efforts to put rehabilitation and reconstruction of war-torn metallurgical enterprises. On the initiative and with the participation of I.P. Bardeen it was built Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant.
