“…At the same time, Bryansk Branch of the All-Union Design and Technological Institute of Construction and Road Engineering Industry in collaboration with Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science conducted research on electric pulse sintering with Rymorov [ 6 ] as team leader. In a few years, in the 1980s, investigations in this area started in the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and were led by Balankin [ 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ]. The research team of the Institute of Powder Metallurgy, Belarus Republic (part of USSR at that time) made also significant contribution to the development of electric current-assisted sintering and fundamental understanding of the sintering mechanisms [ 12 ].…”