Role of Prof. V.P. Vologdin and his school in radio and electrotechnology

This paper shows an outstanding role played by Prof. Valentin Petrovich Vologdin in radio engineering and electrotechnology. He was a brilliant engineer, inventor and scientist as well as an organizer of science, education and industry. He played a special role in the development of the Russian radio industry initially as an expert in power conversion technique and then as one of its organizers. For his scientific and technical contributions in radio he was awarded the first A.S. Popov Gold Medal. Vologdin is also a pioneer of high frequency electrotechnology, founder of a unique research institute VNIITVCh, later named after him. A relentless promoter of innovation technology, he founded the Curriculum ldquoHigh Frequency Techniquerdquo at the University LETI, St. Petersburg, Russia.