Chronicle: The last accomplishment of B. I. Verkin

The paper describes the decisive role by B. I. Verkin, the founder of the Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering (ILTPE) and the journal Low Temperature Physics, in the return from the near 50-year oblivion the name of L. V. Shubnikov, an outstanding Soviet physicist arrested and executed in 1937. We begin with a brief survey of Shubnikov’s works, several of them are of the Nobel prize level. Then we briefly describe the foundation by B. I. Verkin of the Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering. Finally, we outline the history of writing the book about Shubnikov and the outstanding efforts by B. I. Verkin in the realization of this last, according to him, achievement of his life.