Petr Petrovich Lazarev was a biophysicist and a founder of the Soviet Institute of Physics and Biophysics. He also founded the journal Uspekhi fizicheskikh nauk.

Yekaterinburg, alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk, is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The city is