About the book: year / ...On a frosty January night in 1931, a strange procession moved through the streets of Leningrad. Several people solemnly, like a banner, carried... an ordinary car tire. One was holding a certificate in his hands, in case of a meeting with the police, from which it followed that the tire was not stolen. The point was that the tire was not quite ordinary. It was just produced at the Red Triangle plant from synthetic rubber - the first synthetic rubber produced in our country industrially using the method of Academician Lebedev. One of the largest figures in Russian science, a brilliant experimenter Sergei Vasilyevich Lebedev, was the author of a number of classic works on organic chemistry. He owes the invaluable merit of creating an industrial method for producing synthetic rubber in the USSR. This remarkable discovery of the Russian chemist freed our country from the need to import valuable natural rubber from abroad and played a huge role in the growth and development of the young Soviet industry. The book by K. B. Piotrovsky tells about the life and work of the remarkable chemist.