The scientific session of the Division of Physical Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), devoted to the memory of Academician Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotel’nikov, was held on February 22, 2006 in the conference hall of the P N Lebedev Physics Institute, RAS. The following reports were presented at the session:
(1) Gulyaev Yu V (Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, RAS) ’Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotel’nikov (Opening address)’;
(2) Kotel’nikova N V ’Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotel’nikov: the life’s journey of a scientist’;
(3) Armand N A (Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, RAS) ’V A Kotel’nikov and his role in the development of radiophysics and radio engineering’;
(4) Sachkov V N (Academy of Cryptography of the Russian Federation) ’V A Kotel’nikov and encrypted communications in our country’;
(5) Molotkov S N (Institute of Solid State Physics, RAS, Chernogolovka, Moscow region; Academy of Cryptography of the Russian Federation; M V Lomonosov Moscow State University Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics) ’Quantum cryptography and V A Kotel’nikov’s one-time key and sampling theorems’;
(6) Chertok B E (Russian Space Corporation ’Energiya’) ’V A Kotel’nikov and his role in the development of space radio electronics in our country’;
(7) Pobedonostsev K A (Special Design Bureau of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute) ’V A Kotel’nikov as outstanding engineer and his role in the coming of age of the Special Design Bureau of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute’.
An abridge version of the first six reports is given below.

DOI: 10.1070/PU2006v049n07ABEH006046 URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2006/7/e/ 000242169200004 2006PhyU...49..725G Citation: Gulyaev Yu V "Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotel'nikov (Opening address)" Phys. Usp. 49 725–727 (2006) BibTexBibNote ® (generic)BibNote ® (RIS)MedlineRefWorks Оригинал: Гуляев Ю В «О Владимире Александровиче Котельникове (вступительное слово)» УФН 176 751 (2006); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0176.200607f.0751 V.A. Kotel’nikov is author of Physics-Uspekhi