Aleksander Adolfovich Burba (Russian: ??????´??? ???´??????? ??´???, IPA: [?l??'ksandr ?'dol?f?v?it? 'burb?] (listen); 6 August 1918 – 5 October 1984) was a Soviet organizer of industry and education, a scholar in the field of chemical and metallurgical technologies, Ph.D.
(Technology, 1968), Professor (1980), Director of the Mednogorsk Copper-Sulfur Plant (1954–1971), the first Rector (founder) of the Orenburg Polytechnic Institute (1971–1983), now the Orenburg State University.
Honorary Citizen of Mednogorsk, Orenburg Oblast (1979).