History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back 34 years at the steering wheel of the Institute. Essay on scientific and science-managing activities of academician V.I.Spitsin V.F. Peretrukhin, B.G. Ershov, A.P. Zakharov Present article gives the main facts of Spitsin’s scientific activities. Under his guidance a lot of important State projects on development of chemical, nuclear and defense industry were fulfilled. The effective combination of basic and applied works was achieved. His department participated in solving important problems of creating and development of the nuclear fuel technology, including the processing and isolation of radioactive wastes. Key words: physical chemistry; radiochemistry; radiation chemistry; quantum chemistry; radioactivity; nuclear industry. E-mail: vperet@ipc.rssi.ru, ershov@ipc.rssi.ru, azakharov@ipc.rssi.ru