Electric spark of alloying – ESA – from the standpoint of materialogy, a new stage in the development of the materials science, is a method of surface hardening that refers to technologies meeting the new development vector of the materials science, including its most important sections – surface materialogy. As an anode material, an unconventional material for the electric-spark coating method (ESA) - rhenium is of practical interest for creating protective and hardening coatings. The results of studies of the formation modes by the method of ESA are given on the surface of steel grade 35 of the alloyed layer and its properties using the anodic material from rhenium is shown. The kinetics of the doped layer formation depending on the ESD regimes, their justification is shown. It is established that with an increase of the frequency of discharge pulses in the range of 1600>fcps>20 Hz, a trend to increase the thickness of the AL hav.AL is observed, and with an increase in energy 1.8>E>0.11 J, on the contrary, there is a trend of its decrease; the latter is associated with a decrease of the pulses frequency with the increase of energy. The obtained series of the efficiency of the ESA process make it possible to predict the achievement of the required parameters of the doped layer using Re as the anode material.
