The 6th of October is the 75th birthday of Vladimir Moiseevich Pudalov, a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Vladimir Moiseevich is an outstanding physicist experimentalist, well known for his scientific results in the field of correlated electron systems. He has published over 250 scientific papers and 5 monographs. In 2015 VM was awarded A.F. Ioffe prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences «For outstanding works in physics».

VMP graduated from the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology in 1968 and got his PhD in 1975 from Kapitza Institute. He used to be a deputy-director of the High Pressure Physics Institute in Troitsk. Currently VPM is the. Principle research officer at the Lebedev Physical Institute of RAS,. heading the V.L. Ginzburg Center for High Temperature Superconductivity and Quantum Materials.

VMP with co-authors discovered and investigated a negative compressibility of a two-dimensional electron liquid, alternating transitions between the phases of a quantized Hall conductor and insulator, the collective state of a two-dimensional electron system, new phases in one-dimensional organic crystals. The metal-insulator transition he discovered in a two-dimensional strongly correlated system of electrons radically changes the prevailing concept of the impossibility of a metallic state in two-dimensional systems.

Once in 2006, VMP received a call from Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, a Nobel Prize winner, with a proposal to study creation of superconductors with a critical temperature above the room one. After this call, VMP changed the direction of his work. He constructed a new building in the Lebedev Institute, where a new team under his leadership can now focus on solving this problem, and organized an international cooperation. Among VMP's most recent results to mention is his observation in 2020 of the superconductivity in the thorium hydride at T=161 K. We warmly wish Vladimir Moiseevich to implement the task of Ginzburg.

VMP is also the Editor-in-Chief of our journal JETP Letters, and all the staff of the journal and the Editorial Board wish Vladimir Moiseevich good health, long and fruitful activities, and many new scientific results.