those who knew koptitsa personally say that after the loss of his first family, he was no longer afraid to build this institute, he built it. here he sees that the leading theorists whom he invited to his institute, namely landau, fok, they were simply imprisoned, he wrote a letter personally to stalin with a personal guarantee that he vouches for these scientists, that they are not foreign there there agents or someone that they are, so to speak, soviet scientists who... will behave properly, in fact, he saved landao, when in the spring of 1939 the lion landao was released from prison, kopitsa offered him work on theoretical justification for superfluidity. landao was a theoretical physicist, kopitsa, physicists and practitioners and theorists, this is rarely found. while still in cambridge, kopitsa invented the first piston expander to produce a liquid gel. in 1942, in kazan, the institute of physics was evacuated there. it produced up to 200 kg of liquid oxygen per hour, and the front really needed it for explosives, for high-strength tank steel, and for medicine, object number two p