On January 23, a postage stamp dedicated to Vladimir Fortov, a physicist, an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences was put into postal circulation in the Cavaliers of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” series

Vladimir Fortov (1946-2020) was a Soviet and Russian physicist, an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991, a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR since 1987). He is a laureate of State Prize of the USSR (1988), State Prize of the Russian Federation (1997), State Prize of the Russian Federation named after Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov (2012) and four prizes of the Government of the Russian Federation (1997, 1999, 2003, 2010). He is a Full Cavalier of the Order for Merit to the Fatherland.

Vladimir Fortov was born on January 23, 1946, in Noginsk, Moscow Region. In 1968, he graduated with honors from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Aeromechanical Faculty, and was admitted to a postgraduate study. Since 1982, he has been a Professor in specialty of chemical physics, including combustion and explosion physics.

In 1996-1997, Vladimir Fortov was a Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation; the Minister of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation; and the Chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Science and Technology (1996-1998). From 2007 to 2018, he was the Director of the Joint Institute of High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2013–2017).

His principal papers are devoted to the physics of powerful shock waves in dense plasma and extreme states of matter. Under the guidance of Vladimir Fortov and with his direct participation, theoretical and experimental works were carried out in the field of high-energy-density physics, the physics of non-ideal plasma and chemical physics, space physics, the theory of combustion and explosion, thermophysical properties of substances and their behavior under extreme conditions.

In the world of science, he is known as the author and the leader of a new scientific direction: dynamic physics of non-ideal plasma. He made a fundamental contribution to the research cycle on the physics of high energy densities on the Angara-5-1 complex. A series of experiments on the study of the formation of quasi-crystalline well-ordered structures in plasma conducted in the 2010s under Fortov’s direction seems to be fundamental and promising in terms of applicability aspects.

The postage stamp provides a portrait of Vladimir Fortov and the Order for Merit to the Fatherland.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Noginsk of the Moscow Region.


Design Artist: A. Moskovets.
Face value: 50 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm, sheet size: 142×174 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with (3×5) 14 stamps and a coupon.
Quantity: 98 thousand stamps (7 thousand sheets).

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