Igor Gorynin

Igor Vasilyevich Gorynin (; 10 March 1926 – 9 May 2015) was a Soviet and Russian metallurgist, creator of many new titanium and aluminium alloys, and reactor steels. He was the director of the Prometey Central Scientific Research Institute Of Structural Materials.

In 1967, he became a Doctor of Science for his work on the construction materials for nuclear reactors. In 1971 he became a Professor, in 1979 he became a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and since 1984 a Full member of the Academy. In 1989 he was elected to Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (from the Academy of Science) and took part in the historic dissolution of the Soviet Union. He died at the age of 89 in Saint Petersburg in 2015.

Works Gorynin wrote on doping of metallic alloy and its effects on plastic deformations and physical properties of the alloys.

Awards Igor Gorynin was awarded: two orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1959, 1970); Lenin Prize (1963); USSR State Prize (1974); Order of Lenin (1981); Order of the October Revolution (1986); State Prize of the Russian Federation (1994 and 2006); Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd (2002) and 3rd (1996) class; Order of Saint Daniil of Moscow (1996); La Crus de Comendator al Merito Belgo-Hispanico) (1997); Aleksey Krylov prize (2001); Dmitry Chernov's medal (2001)