In memory of V L Ginzburg (Scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 27 October 2010)

The scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division (PSD) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), dedicated to the memory of V L Ginzburg, took place in the conference hall of the Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS on 27 October 2010.
The agenda of the session announced on the website www.gpad.ac.ru of the RAS Physical Sciences Division listed the following reports:
(1) Mesyats G A (Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow) ‘`Introductory word";
(2) Rubakov V A (Institute for Nuclear Research, RAS, Moscow) "Cosmology and the Large Hadron Collider";
(3) Gurevich A V (Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow), Zelenyi L M (Space Research Institute, RAS, Moscow) "Intense gamma bursts in Earth’s atmosphere (TGE) and the mission 'Chibis'‘`;
(4) Vasiliev M A (Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow) "Higher-spin theory";
(5) Maksimov E G (Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow) "What is and what is not known about HTSC";
(6) Pudalov V M (Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow, and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) "V L Ginzburg and the development of experimental work on high-temperature superconductivity at LPI: ’iron superconductors'".

Papers based on talks 2, 4, and 6 are published below.
For several reasons, L P Pitaevskii was unable to attend the session. He presented a paper dedicated to the memory of V L Ginzburg, which is published in this issue of Physics-Uspekhi (p. 625).