July 23, 2008, is the day of 70th anniversary of Vadim Kotov, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the leader of the Provisional Scientific and Research Group "START", the organizer and first director of the A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems of the Siberian Branch of RAS. The IIS team congratulates Vadim Evguenievich on this great date.
To celebrate the date we selected some interesting documents from A.P. Ershov Archive and the IIS SB RAS Archive: photographs, letters, office memorandums, articles in Russian and foreign papers that represent main milestones of Vadim Kotov's scientific and administrative career.