Viktor Zhivopistsev

From July 1970 to 12 March 1987, Zhivopistsev held the position of a rector of Perm State University and a chairman of the Council of Rectors of Perm Universities. He was also a member of the Scientific Council of the Analytical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In 1971, he was a delegate at the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and at the XVI Congress of Trade Unions of the USSR in 1977. He was a member of the Perm Regional Committee of the CPSU several times.

Zhivopistsev had published more than 300 scientific articles and received 56 copyright certificates for inventions. In the co-authorship with E. A. Selezneva at "Nauka" Publishing House he was able to publish a monograph "Analytical chemistry of zinc" in 1975. Under his leadership, approximately 25 Candidates of Sciences and 2 Doctors of Sciences had been trained and nurtured.

Zhivopistsev was an initiator and the first scientific director of the laboratory of organic reagents which was opened in January 1973 at the Department of Analytical Chemistry.

Through the initiative of a rector Zhivopistsev, the Museum of the History of the Perm University was established (Order No. 3 of January 6, 1973).

In the history of Perm State University, Zhivopistsev went down as a "Rector The Builder". During the 17 years of his work as a rector (1970–1987), the university's educational, scientific and production areas facilities had more than doubled. Under his leadership, a chemistry department building (No. 6), a Student House of Culture (building No. 7), an economic department building (building No. 12), a two-hall sports building (No. 10), and four student dormitories (№ 2, 5, 6, 7), a ski base, a canteen with 530 seats (today it is the building No. 9, used as a building for the Department of Law), a dispensary, were built.

From 1967 to 1989, he was working as the Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry of Perm State University.

After the war, he returned to teacher's and scientific work. In 1951, he defended his Ph.D. thesis. In 1952, he was transferred to the position of an associate professor of the Department of Organic Chemistry. In 1965, he was one of the first people at university who defended the doctoral thesis at Perm University and was elected Professor of the Department of Organic Chemistry.

He fought in the Great Patriotic War and managed to build a career in the army from the rank of a soldier of 32nd Combat Engineer Battalion to the head of the chemical laboratory of the 1st Far Eastern Front.

Viktor Petrovich Zhivopistsev (Russian: Ви́ктор Петро́вич Живопи́сцев; 22 September 1915 – 22 October 2006) was a Soviet and Russian chemist. Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1973).

Zhivopistsev was born on 22 September 1915 in the village Sabarka in Suksunsky District of Perm Oblast (now — Perm Krai). After graduating with honours from the Okhansk Pedagogical College in 1933, he entered the Department of Chemistry of Perm State University and graduated in 1938. After that he stayed at university and worked as an assistant at the Department of Analytical Chemistry.