November 27, 2023 we will mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of a well-known researcher in the field of crystal physics and physical materials science Honored Scientist of Ukraine Professor Valerian Ivanovich Startsev, prominent organizer of physical science in Kharkiv and in Ukraine.
Professor V. I. Startsev entered the history of science as a bright representative of that glorious cohort of scientists, whose works during the second half of the 20th century laid the foundation of modern physics of the plasticity and strength of crystalline materials and its microscopic basis—the dislocation concept. The life and creative activity of V. I. Startsev were rich in varied events: with difficulties and successes, ups and downs, hopes and disappointments. Together with his contemporaries, he took an active part in the complex history of the 20th century with its political and social cataclysms, world wars and revolutions, rapid scientific and technical progress, international...