Academisian of AS of the USSR. The first director of Ukrainian Technical Physics Institute (this is the National Scientific Center "Kharkov Technical Physics Institute" now).

One of the most active organizers of the Physics and Engineering Department of  KPI at the beginning of the 30-th in XX century, he headed the Chair of Common and Experimental Physics at that time and  with all the means at his disposal took the part in schooling of brilliant Pleiad of physicists in Kharkov.