Appeal to authors and readers

The year 2005 marks forty years since the foundation of the journal Pis’ma v ZhETF. It appeared in 1965 and soon after gained a high degree of prestige in the physics community, becoming one of the leading physics journals in the Soviet Union. Its English translation was begun immediately with the foundation of its identical English-language edition JETP Letters. In order to retain its role in the current, rapidly changing world, the journal was reorganized in the 1990s: it became open and international and began to present the achievements of not only Russian physicists but also of scientists from all over the world. Since 1991, articles in English have been accepted and published in the journal, and manuscripts have been received via e-mail since 1994. This means that foreign scientists, as well as Russian scientists working abroad or in remote regions of Russia, can send their manuscripts to Pis’ma v ZhETF in either English or Russian as easily as Moscow-based authors submit their printed manuscripts. As a result, we now receive a large number of articles from abroad. The numbers presented below illustrate the source countries of our articles.