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Last update of repository: 15 March 2020

Fiziko-tekhnicheskii institut im. A.F. Ioffe RAN (FTI)


Nauchnyi arkhiv
[Scientific Archive]

Telephone: +7 812 297-99-03


Holdings

Total: 7 fonds; ca. 20,000 units; 1918–1990s
institutional fonds—6 (1918–1990s); personal papers—1 fond (1960–1985)

The archive houses the administrative records of the Institute itself, its predecessors and related scientific and research institutions. Among them there are the State Physico-Technical Institute of Radiology [Röntgenology] (1918–1931), the Consortium of Physical and Technical Institutes (1924–1933), the A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute (FTI, 1930–1993), the Institute of Semi-Conductors of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (IPAN, 1951–1972), the Special Construction Design Office IPAN-FTI (1956–1993), and the “Fizintekh” Company (1990–1993). Archival records remain for the FTI during the entire period of its existence, a large part consists in scientific documentation—research reports, dissertations (1936–1993), patent applications and patents, articles, critiques, reviews, reports, and other scientific writings of members of the Institute. Scientific-administrative documentation includes Institute research plans, reports, minutes of council meetings of the Institute (1931–1993) and its divisions (solid-state electronics, solid-state physics, plasma physics, physics of dielectrics and semi-conductors—1989–1993, and the physics of semi-conductors and heterostructures—1993–), special scientific councils (1973–1987), and councils for dissertation defense. There is a wide range of correspondence related to research, including foreign relations.
        A large part of the archive consists of personnel records of Institute members. Among these are personal files of many well-known scientists, including A.F. Ioffe, A.I. Alikhanov, L.A. Artsimovich, G.A. Grinberg, E.F. Gross, P.P. Kobeko, Iu.B.Kobzarev, and B.P. Konstantinov. The archive also retains the personal papers of physicist A.P. Grinberg (1910–1985).

N.B. Materials from the office of the so-called Individual Group of Academician A.F. Ioffe and his laboratory, and the subsequent Institute of Semi-Conductors of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (through 1952) are retained in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PFA RAN, E–25, fond 852; electronically: http://isaran.ru/isaran/isaran.php?pa...). Part of the personal papers of A.F. Ioffe are also in PFA RAN (fond 910; electronically: http://isaran.ru/isaran/isaran.php?pa...).


Working conditions:
Researchers are accommodated in the working area of the archive, since there is no formal reading room. Files are delivered the same day as they are ordered.

Reference facilities:
There are opisi for fond nos. 1-5, and there are alphabetical reference catalogues.

Copy facilities:
Facilities are available for xerox copies.


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