niki yankova. why did you decide to become a chemist? i always wanted to know how things work.and now i'm taking molecules apart. it's like magic. i wanted to become a magician. what inspires you in your profession? i can engage in new developments and stand at the forefront of the development of scientific activity in russia. everything that surrounds us, in general, is chemistry, here in front of us are unique documents, these are the first versions of the periodic law, experience, systems of elements, just like that dmitry ivanovich indeed in 1869 originally named his known law, in this professorial apartment at the state university of st. petersburg, mendeleev lived for more than 20 years, here he worked on the periodic law, which today is known to every schoolchild as the periodic table. all the objects that we see here are genuine, they belonged personally to dmitry ivanovich, mendeleev. in the museum-archive we meet with a young scientist, development chemist and graduate of st. petersburg state university, denis baygozin. i didn’t have any questions about where to go, w