20 years ago, according to order-decision number 744/119 of September 21, 1989 by the State Committee on Education and Presidium of the Academy of Science of USSR, the Scientific-Educational Center of SHS MISIS - ISMAN (SHS-Center) has been established in order to launch scientific integration of the State Technological University Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISIS) and the Institute of Structural Macrokinetics and Material Science Problems of Russian Academy of Science (ISMAN) in the field of Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis (SHS). This order-decision determined functions and tasks, statute and structure of the SHS-Center. Idea of SHS-Center establishment was positively accepted by representatives of State Committee on Education (Prof. Gennady Yagodin) and Academy of Science (Academician Guriy Marchyuk) of USSR.