ABOUT P.N.Lebedev Physical institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Physical Institute of the Lebedev of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FIAN) is one of the largest and probably the oldest research center of Russia. The Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS) is one of the largest and is, apparently, the oldest scientific research centre of the country. Its scientific subjects cover essentially all major trends in physics. As a modern polyphysical body, the Institute was founded in 1934 by Academician S.I Vavilov, an outstanding optical physicist and science organizer. The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals.