Five Lectures on the Life and Work of Academician I. M. Vinogradov

The article reproduces the text of lectures on the life and work of the Soviet Academician I. M. Vinogradov, the first director of the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, delivered by his colleague and co-author A. A. Karatsuba (1937–2008) in September 1983 at the Tajik State University named after V. I. Lenin (now Tajik National University), Dushanbe.