JETP Letters

60 years of JETP Letters

Dear readers and authors!

In April 2025 our journal Pis'ma v ZhETF (JETP Letters), celebrates 60 years of its history. The journal was founded on the initiative of Peotr Kapitza, and established by the Decree of the Presidium of Soviet Academy of sciences. The first issue was published on April, 1, 1965. From its inception to the present day, the journal was aimed at a wide readership of researchers from various fields of physics. Its mission is to provide a rapid publication platform for short communications on new results from research of the highest significance and highest priority in all areas of experimental and theoretical physics. We decided to inform our authors and readers on the 60th anniversary of our Journal with this brief note solely, since a fairly detailed article on the history of the foundation and development of the JETP Letters was published in Physics-Uspekhi [1] to the 50th anniversary of the Journal.

We are proud that among the authors who published their research in our journal are eleven Nobel Prize winners, and a great number of outstanding scientists, including:

A.A. Abrikosov, E.B. Aleksandrov, A.I. Alikhanyan, B.L. Al’tshuler, Zh.I. Alferov, A.F. Andreev, A.G. Aronov, L.A. Artsimovich, S.A. Akhmanov, N.G. Basov, A.A. Belavin, L.D. Blokhintsev, A.E. Bondar’, A.S. Borovik-Romanov, V.B. Braginskii, V.V. Brazhkin, G.I. Budker, E.P. Velikhov, V.N. Gavrin, A.A. Galeev, V.F. Gantmakher, A.V. Gaponov-Grekhov, S.V. Garnov, A.K. Geim, S.S. Gershtein, V.L. Ginzburg, A.A. Gorbatsevich, L.P. Gor’kov, V.N. Gribov, M.V. Danilov, N.B. Delone, G.G. Denisov, S.P. Denisov, V.P. Dzhelepov, I.E. Dzyaloshinskii, V.V. Dmitriev, A.M. Dykhne, M.I. Dyakonov, A.I. Ekimov, A.G. Zabrodsky, E.K. Zavoiskii, A.B. Zamolodchikov, V.E. Zakharov, B.P. Zakharchenya, G.T. Zatsepin, Ya.B. Zeldovich, L.M. Zelenyi, E.L. Ivchenko, R.I. Il’kaev, N.A. Inogamov, B.L. Ioffe, Yu.M. Kagan, B.B. Kadomtsev, D.I. Kazakov, P.L. Kapitza, V.V. Kveder, L.V. Keldysh, K.von Klitzing, T.W.B. Kibble, D.A. Kirzhnits, D.N. Klyshko, Yu.V. Kopaev, N.B. Kopnin, O.V. Krokhin, E.P. Kruglyakov, E.A. Kuznetsov, V.A. Kuzmin, I.V. Kukushkin, Yu.N. Kulchin, A.N. Lagar’kov, A.I. Larkin, M.A. Leontovich, V.S. Letokhov, L.N. Lipatov, A.G. Litvak, E.M. Lifshitz, I.M. Lifshitz, V.M. Lobashev, E.P. Mazets, E.G. Maksimov, M.A. Markov, V.A. Matveev, G.A. Mesyats, I.N. Meshkov, A.B. Migdal, I.D. Novikov, S.P. Novikov, K.S. Novoselov, Yu.N. Ovchinnikov, Yu.T. Oganesyan, L.B. Okun’, Yu.A. Osip’yan, V.V. Parkhomchuk, V.I. Perel’, L.P. Pitaeskii, A.M. Polyakov, I.Ya. Pumeranchuk, L.I. Ponomarev, B.M. Pontecorvo, Yu.D. Prokoshkin, A.M. Prokhorov, E.I. Rashba, N.N. Rozanov, V.A. Rubakov, O.V. Rudenko, A.Yu. Rumyantsev, D.D. Ryutov, R.Z. Sagdeev, M.V. Sadovskii, K.M. Salikhov, A.D. Sakharov, A.M. Sergeev, Ya.G. Sinai, A.N. Skrinskii, A.A. Starobinsky, S.M. Stishov, R.A. Syunyaev, T.A. Ter-Martirosyan, V.B. Timofeev, I.I. Tkachev, L.D. Faddeev, V.S. Fadin, G.N. Flerov, V.E. Fortov, E.A. Khazanov, I.M. Khalatnikov, M.S. Khaikin, R.V. Khokhlov, I.B. Khriplovich, A.V. Chaplik, V.P. Chebotaev, P.A. Cherenkov, A.E. Chudakov, A.M. Shalagin, A.I. Shal’nikov, Yu.V. Sharvin, B.Yu. Sharkov, V.D. Shafranov, I.A. Shcherbakov, G.M. Eliashberg, M.I. Yalandin.

Today, as in previous years, Pis'ma v ZhETF (JETP Letters) is the Russia’s premier physics letter journal, authoritative and influential source of verified information for researchers working in various fields of physics. The journal continues to retain its leadership position in Russia, and is noticeable also at the international arena. Full texts of all articles published in Pis'ma v ZhETF, throughout the entire history of the journal, are available on the journal's Internet portal, and on other sites created by order of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In addition to the Russian edition of the journal, all articles are published in English in the JETP Letters and indexed in international databases, almost simultaneously with the release of the Pis'ma v ZhETF; the full texts of the vast majority of them are also available in open access.

The JETPL editorial board traces new and “hot” topics in physical sciences, and recently included into the journal scope such fields as quantum informatics, biophysics, and medical physics.

Now as well as 60 preceding years, the journal serves scientific community and welcome new original experimental and theoretical research contributions, new ideas, and new authors!

JETP Letters Editorial board

[1] V.P. Pastukhov “50 years of JETP Letters” Phys. Usp. 58 407–413 (2015)