A scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), was held on 26 May 2010 at the conference hall of the Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS. The session was devoted to the 85th birthday of S I Syrovatskii.
The program announced on the web page of the RAS Physical Sciences Division (www.gpad.ac.ru) contained the following reports:

1. Zelenyi L M (Space Research Institute, RAS, Moscow) “Current sheets and reconnection in the geomagnetic tail”;
2. Frank A G (Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow) “Dynamics of current sheets as the cause of flare events in magnetized plasmas”;
3. Kuznetsov V D (Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation, RAS, Troitsk, Moscow region) “Space research on the Sun”;
4. Somov B V (Shternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow) “Strong shock waves and extreme plasma states”;
5. Zybin K P (Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow) “Structure functions for developed turbulence”;
6. Ptuskin V S (Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation, RAS, Troitsk, Moscow region) “The origin of cosmic rays.”

PACS: 01.10.Fv DOI: 10.3367/UFNe.0180.201009f.0973 URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2010/9/f/ {} {} 2010PhyU...53..933. Citation: "Commemoration of the 85th birthday of S I Syrovatskii (Scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 26 May 2010)" Phys. Usp. 53 933–961 (2010) BibTexBibNote ® (generic)BibNote ® (RIS)MedlineRefWorks Оригинал: «К 85-летию со дня рождения С.И. Сыроватского (Научная сессия Отделения физических наук Российской академии наук, 26 мая 2010 г.)» УФН 180 973–1004 (2010); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0180.201009f.0973 S.I. Syrovatskii is author of Physics-Uspekhi