The Physicotechnical Institute conducts its history from the department of the same name of the State X-ray and Radiological Institute (GRRI), established in September 1918 on the initiative of professors A.F. Ioffe and M.I. Nemenova. World renown brought institute work in the field of solid state physics, semiconductors, quantum electronics, astrophysics, plasma physics, physical gas dynamics. The work of the institute's staff in interplanetary physics and cosmology, controlled thermonuclear fusion, and the motion of bodies in the atmospheres of the Earth and other planets are well known to specialists.
The postage stamp depicts the bust of A.F. Ioffe works by sculptor GD Glikman and the building of the Physicotechnical Institute. A.F. Ioffe Academy of Sciences.
In addition to the issue of a postage stamp of JSC “Marka”, envelopes of the first day will be issued and stamps of the first day will be made for Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Designer: S. Kapranov.
Denomination: 32 r.
The size of the stamp: 58 × 26 mm, the size of the sheet: 132 × 120 mm.
Release form: sheet of 8 (2 × 4) marks.
Circulation: 168 thousand marks (21 thousand sheets).
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