Alexey Nikolaevich Baraboshkin is an outstanding electrochemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, one of the leading scientists in the field of high-temperature electrochemistry and physical chemistry of molten salt media. The paper describes some facts from the biography of A.N. Baraboshkin, as well as the main directions and results of his scientific work, which made a significant contribution to the development of the theory and practice of electrocrystallization in molten salts. Particular attention in his works was paid to the development of the electrochemical phase formation theory, a deep study of the mechanisms and kinetics, as well as the determination of the conditions for the formation of pure continuous deposits with a certain structure and grain orientation. The results obtained by Baraboshkin and his colleagues contributed to the development and rapid implementation of technologies for the electrolytic deposition of refractory and platinum metals, including electro-refining, the application of heat- and corrosion-resistant coatings to various metal substrates, and the electroplating of complex-shaped products.
Grishenkova et al. (2025) studied this question.