Georgy Vyacheslavovich Kurdyumov (Russian: Георгий Вячеславович Курдюмов; 14 February 1902 – 6 July 1996) was a Soviet metallurgist and physicist.

[5] After he moved back to the Soviet Union, he went to Ukraine and became one of the founders of the Dnepropetrovsk Physico-Technical Institute in Dnipropetrovsk.

[6] The Institute of Solid State Physics was established by the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union on February 15, 1963; he, together with Yuri Osipyan and Cheslav Kopetsky, were the main organizers of institute.

[7] He was a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.

He performed pioneering work in the study of martensitic transformation in crystalline materials that are of fundamental importance for the theory of phase transitions and heat treatment of steels and alloys.