October 29, 2020 140 years since the birth of the great Russian Soviet scientist Abram Fedorovich Ioffe – organizer of science, commonly referred to as the "father of Soviet physics", founder of modern agrophysics, academician (1920), Vice-President of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1942-1945), state prize Winner (1942), Hero of Socialist Labor (1955), Creator of the scientific school that gave many outstanding Soviet physicists and agrophysicians, such as A. Alexandrov, I. Kurchatov, B. Alexandrov, P. Kapitsa, M. Bronstein, J. Dorfman, G. Frank, V. malchevsky, I. Kikoin, A. Kurtener, N. Maksimov, G. B. Abdullaev and many others, first Director of the agrophysical research Institute (1932-1960), which he founded under the leadership and together with academician N. I. Vavilov, who was at that time the first President of VASHNIL.