IN MEMORY OF GENNADY NIKOLAEVICH ELANSKY

IN MEMORY OF GENNADY NIKOLAEVICH ELANSKY

07.04.1937 – 22.06.2021

Yelanskiy Gennady Nikolaevich, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Honorary Metallurgist of the USSR (1991), Honorary Worker of Higher Education of Russia (1997), Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1997), Full Member of the Russian Engineering Academy, Rector of the Moscow State Evening Metallurgical Institute (1989 - 2007).
Yelanskiy Gennady Nikolaevich was born on April 7, 1937 in the village of Petropavlovka, Vladimirovsky District, Stalingrad Region (currently included in the city of Akhtubinsk). Father - Yelanskiy Nikolay Sofronovich, a mechanical engineer in the food industry, mother - Yelanskaya (née Kuznetsova) Maria Vasilievna, a teacher. In 1954, Gennady Nikolaevich graduated with a gold medal from the secondary school at the Akhtuba station of the Volga Railway, and in the same year he entered the Moscow Institute of Steel named after Stalin (specializing in ferrous metallurgy). In 1959, he graduated with honors from the institute and was assigned to the Gorky Machine-Building Plant, where he worked until January 1963 as an assistant foreman, foreman, senior shift foreman (shift supervisor) of the open-hearth shop. The shop included five 50-ton open-hearth furnaces with a high level of technology with steel pouring into ingots using a siphon, into large ingots from above, and continuous casting units (CCU) into square and rectangular section blanks. For mastering the CCU, Gennady Nikolaevich was awarded a prize.
In January 1963, G.N. Yelansky was enrolled in the graduate school of the Moscow Evening Metallurgical Institute (MVMI) in the department of steel metallurgy, which at that time was headed by the famous specialist, Professor Edneral Fyodor Prokopyevich. G.N. Yelansky completed his graduate work at the Volgograd Metallurgical Plant "Krasny Oktyabr" under the supervision of then candidate of technical sciences, Associate Professor Viktor Aleksandrovich Kudrin, who became his teacher and friend for life. After successfully defending his candidate's dissertation (the first opponent for the dissertation was Professor G.N. Oyks), G.N. Yelansky was left for pedagogical work at MVMI, where he worked as an assistant, then associate professor, professor. Gennady Nikolaevich continued to conduct scientific work at the Krasny Oktyabr metallurgical plants, the Moscow Serp i Molot plant, the Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk, and Novokuznetsk metallurgical plants, and was a co-supervisor and supervisor of graduate students. This allowed him to prepare and successfully defend his doctoral dissertation on April 7, 1983, in the MISIS dissertation council, in the specialty of ferrous metal metallurgy. A year later, he was awarded the academic title of professor in the department of steel metallurgy. In 1987, G.N. Yelansky was appointed vice-rector for research at MVMI, and in 1989, on an alternative basis among three candidates, he was elected rector of the institute in the first round. G.N. Yelansky was re-elected rector four more times.

G.N. Yelansky made a great contribution to the theory of decarburization process in open-hearth and electric arc furnaces, revealed the connection between technological processes of decarburization and degassing of steel with the structure and properties of metal melts, studied the structure and properties of molten iron and its alloys with carbon and nickel, presented phase diagrams of iron-carbon and iron-nickel melts, revealed the nature of slag clumping on the metal mirror during continuous casting of corrosion-resistant steels with titanium. The main works of G.N. Yelansky - more than 220 scientific and technical articles - were published in the journals "Steel", "Metallurg", "Elektrometallurgiya", "Izvestiya vuzov. Chernaya Metallurgy", in three monographs, in four textbooks, materials of conferences and congresses. He was a co-supervisor and supervisor of 10 postgraduate students. He helped many postgraduate students and applicants prepare and defend their candidate and doctoral dissertations. From 1987 to 2015, G.N. Yelansky was a member and deputy chairman of the expert council of the Higher Attestation Commission of the USSR and Russia in metallurgy and metal science, was a member of the dissertation councils of TsNIIChermet, TsNIITMASH, MGVMI (chairman of the council), and a member of the editorial board of the Steel magazine. He actively participated in organizing and holding all the Congresses of Steelmakers. In 1969, for 10 months, as part of academic exchanges, he participated in a study of the equilibrium distribution of phosphorus between metal and slag, conducted at the Institute of Metallurgy of the Technical University in Clausthal, Germany. His institute curator Dieter Ameling became one of the leaders of the metallurgical industry of Germany. At the invitation of G.N. Elansky D. Ameling took part in the work of many Congresses of steelmakers and spoke at plenary sessions with interesting reports. G.N. Elansky, with the support of D. Ameling, organized and conducted five business trips of Russian specialists (the total number of participants was 95 people) to metallurgical, mechanical engineering and scrap processing enterprises in Germany. G.N. Elansky translated three monographs on steel metallurgy from German. Helmut Knüppel's monographs (Deoxidation and vacuum treatment of steel. Part 1. Thermodynamic and kinetic patterns. Moscow: Metallurgy, 1973. 309 p.; Deoxidation and vacuum treatment of steel. Part 2. Fundamentals and technology of ladle metallurgy. Moscow: Metallurgy, 1984. 413 p.) received wide recognition from Russian specialists.
G.N. Yelansky was a member of the Union of Rectors of the Russian Federation, for 10 years he was a member of the Presidium of the Council of Rectors of Moscow and the Moscow Region (110 universities), took an active part in the work of the educational and methodological association for education in the field of metallurgy, was a member of the International Union of Metallurgists, a member of the Union of German Metallurgists, a member of the Board of the Association of Steelmakers of Russia.
Gennady Nikolaevich Yelansky was distinguished by high education, qualifications and intelligence, great organizational skills, simplicity and accessibility in communication.

Gennady Nikolaevich is a scientist, metallurgist, a wonderful person. He made a huge contribution to the development of metallurgy, the development of higher education. Bright memories of him will remain in our hearts for many years!