the Romanovs' house" at the forty-prized ones, on the second floor they arranged Church (now the Small Assembly Hall of the institute). In 1920 the building was adapted to the institute by the design of civil engineers P. I. Sidorov and Yu. V. Bilinsky. The ceremonial transfer of the building to the institute took place on February 4, 1923. Until 1953, the apartment of A. F. Ioffe was located in the same building. In the years 1927–1928 there appeared a yard part, and in 1970 the building was reconstructed and expanded along Kurchatov Street. Beyond this historical building, a more modern building on another side of the Kurchatov Street (the right part of the photo) also belongs to the Ioffe Institute. It was constructed in the 1970s. Furthermore, some laboratories of the Ioffe Institute are placed in Shuvalovo, a north-west outskirts of St. Petersburg. In front of the main facade are the busts of Abram Ioffe (sculptor G. D. Glickman, 1964) and Boris Konstantinov (sculptor Mikhail Anikushin, 1975). On either side of the main entrance are memorial plaques: to the left of the entrance are S. N. Zhurkov, Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Anatoly Alexandrov, Yakov Frenkel, and ; right of the entrance - Igor Kurchatov, B. P. Konstantinov, Nikolay Semyonov. Directors of the institute Before 1950 – Abram Ioffe 1950-1957 – A. P. Komar 1957-1967 – Boris Konstantinov 1967-1987 – Vladimir M. Tuchkevich 1987-2003 – Zhores Alferov 2003-2017 – A. G. Zabrodskii January–September, 2018 – Sergei V. Lebedev (acting) Since October, 2018 – Sergei V. Ivanov (bis July 2019 acting, since August 2019 official) Notable people associated with the institute Hasan Abdullayev Anatoly Alexandrov Zhores Alferov Artem Alikhanian Abraham Alikhanov Arkady Aronov Lev Artsimovich Matvei Bronstein Victor Bursian Yuri Denisyuk Edward Drobyshevski Vladimir G. Dubrovskii Alexei L. Efros Oleg Firsov Georgy Flyorov Yakov Frenkel Andrei Fursenko George Gamow Igor Grekhov Vladimir Gribov Evgeni Gross Abram Ioffe Pyotr Kapitsa Yulii Khariton Boris Konstantinov Yury Kovalchuk Igor Kurchatov Georgii Kurdyumov Lev Landau Vladimir Lobashev Nikolay Semyonov Lev Shubnikov Dmitri Skobeltsyn Yuri Trushin References External links Physics institutes Research institutes in Saint Petersburg Research institutes in the Soviet Union 1918 establishments in Russia Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nuclear research institutes in Russia Nuclear technology in the Soviet Union Cultural heritage monuments in Saint Petersburg