The Institute of Electrophysics of the Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in 1986 by a group of researchers led by the Academician Gennadiy Mesyats who had come to Ekaterinburg (former Sverdlovsk) from Tomsk. The group started developing a new domain of physical research, namely pulse power engineering (first launched in Tomsk), in the Ural Region. Later leading researchers from Moscow and other cities were invited to work in the Institute. Today the Institute employs over 200 people, including 80 scientists, 2 academicians and 4 corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 16 doctors and 40 candidates of sciences. They form a well-organized team of scientists whose works are known among the physics community in Russia and abroad. IEP UD RAS has a solid complex of facilities that are used to create the House of Scientists based on up-to-date congress, exhibition and display halls, parking lots, classrooms and meeting rooms with necessary infrastructure and cutting-edge technical equipment.