“Известия Российской академии наук. Серия физическая” (Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Fizicheskaya, ISSN 0367-6765; English translation: “Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics”, ISSN 1062-8738) is a Russian peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1936 as the Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of USSR: Physics Series. It presents full-text articles with the most recent results in miscellaneous fields of physics and astronomy: nuclear physics, cosmic rays, condensed matter physics, plasma physics, optics and photonics, nanotechnologies, solar and astrophysics, physical applications in material sciences, life sciences, etc. The journal focuses on the most relevant multidisciplinary topics in natural sciences, both fundamental and applied.