 Igor Gorynin was born in Leningrad in 1926.He graduated from the Department of Metallurgy of the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute in 1949 After graduation he worked for a few months for the transformer plant in Zaporizhia (Zaporozhye Transformer Plant) then started to work for the Central Research Institute of Structural Materials "Prometey".Since 1977 he has been the director of the Institute.