Lebedev Physical Institute

The Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a Russian research institute specializing in physics. It can also be referred to as the Lebedev Institute of Physics or just the Lebedev Institute.

Directors of the Institute

• Sergey Vavilov (1934–1951)
• Dmitri Skobeltsyn (1951–1972)
• Nikolay Basov (1973–1988)
• Leonid Keldysh (1988–1994)
• Oleg Krokhin (1994–2004)
• Gennadii Mesyats (2004–)