A scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) was held on 3 February 2010 at the Conference Hall of the P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS.
The following reports were put on the session agenda posted on the website www.gpad.ac.ru of the Physical Sciences Division, RAS:

1. Ustinov V V (Institute of Metal Physics, Ural Branch, RAS, Ekaterinburg) “Metallic nanospintronics”;
2. Kusrayev Yu G (Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, RAS, St. Petersburg) “Spin-related phenomena in semiconductors: physics and applications”;
3. Tarasenko S A (Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, RAS, St. Petersburg) “Spin photocurrents in semiconductors”;
4. Averkiev N S, Golub L E (Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, RAS, St. Petersburg) “Spin relaxation in quantum semiconductor heterostructures”.