Quantum electronics at the P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (FIAN) [Text of an address presented March 21, 1985 at the International Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO'85) Baltimore, USA, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of quantum electronics]

A review is given of the history of, and progress in the field of quantum electronics at the P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (FIAN). The paper was presented on March 21, 1985 at the International Conference CLEO '85 dedicated to the 25th anniversary of quantum electronics, Baltimore, USA.