page_title: Ioffe Institute
section_title: Buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Ioffe Institute / Buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: Kurchatov Street in Saint Petersburg, view from the Academician Ioffe Square. To the left and to the right we see two buildings of the Ioffe Institute Русский: Вид улицы Курчатова в Санкт-Петербурге со стороны площади Академика Иоффе. Слева и справа - два здания ФТИ им. А.Ф. Иоффе.
context_page_description: The Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is one of Russia's largest research centers specialized in physics and technology. The institute was established in 1918 in Petrograd and run for several decades by Abram Ioffe. The Institute is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
context_section_description: The main building of the Ioffe Institute (s. photo at the top of the article and the very left part of the photo below) is located at Polytechnicheskaya Street, 26. It was built in a Neoclassicism style in 1912–1916 by the architect G. D. Grimm and served as "a refuge for the elderly needy hereditary noblemen in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the Romanovs' house" at the forty-prized ones, on the second floor they arranged Church (now the Small Assembly Hall of the Institute).
  In 1920 the building was adapted to the Institute by the design of civil engineers P. I. Sidorov and Yu. V. Bilinsky. The ceremonial transfer of the building to the Institute took place on February 4, 1923. Until 1953, the apartment of A. F. Ioffe was located in the same building. In the years 1927–1928 there appeared a yard part, and in 1970 the building was reconstructed and expanded along Kurchatov Street.
  Beyond this historical building, a more modern building on another side of the Kurchatov Street (the right part of the photo) also belongs to the Ioffe Institute. It was constructed in the 1970s. Furthermore, some laboratories of the Ioffe Institute are placed in Shuvalovo, a north-west outskirts of St. Petersburg.
  In front of the main facade are the busts of Abram Ioffe (sculptor G. D. Glickman, 1964) and Boris Konstantinov (sculptor Mikhail Anikushin, 1975). On either side of the main entrance are memorial plaques: to the left of the entrance are S. N. Zhurkov, Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Anatoly Alexandrov, Yakov Frenkel, and V. M. Tuchkevich; right of the entrance - Igor Kurchatov, B. P. Konstantinov, Nikolay Semyonov.
caption: Buildings belonging to the Ioffe Institute; this photo was shot from the Academician Ioffe square
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