In 1929, along with the other 5 departments, there was the Department of Organic Chemistry founded within the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University. ... During the years of the Great Patriotic War the Moscow group of the Department was headed by Academician V.M. Rodionov (1942-1944), and the staff evacuated to Ashkhabad was headed by Professor A.P. Terentiyev who became a corresponding member of USSR Academy of Sciences in 1953. ... There are 8 laboratories within the department. ...