Physical Institute named after P.N. Lebedev Academy of Sciences of the USSR

October 1976. USSR. Moscow. Junior research fellows of the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences Tasoltan Tazretovich Basiev, Maxim Zosimovich Novgorodov, Valery Pavlovich Avtonomov and senior research fellow Vladimir Nikolaevich Ochkin (from left to right), nominated for the Lenin Komsomol Prize in Science and Technology for a set of studies of physical processes in active media of gas and solid-state optical quantum generators. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Valentin Kuzmin/TASS