The name of academician A. G. Mer^anov became known in the 1970s
in connection with the discovery of a new technology for producing solid solutions,
the self-propagating high-temperature synthesis. This technology, which allowed
the inexpensive synthesis of materials with specific properties, attracted interest
from abroad and offers of foreign contracts. The security services, however, per
ceived business collaboration as a threat to state interests. Only intervention by
A. P. Aleksandrov saved Merzhanov and his colleagues from repression.
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