The journal was founded in January 2004 in St. Petersburg. Is included in the list of leading peer-reviewed scientific journals that should publish the main scientific results of dissertations for the degree of doctor and Candidate of Sciences. The publication publishes experimental, theoretical articles, scientific and practical materials and recommendations, analytical reviews, discussion articles, reports on the events of scientific life. The articles published in the journal reflect the results of scientific research and the experience of their implementation in practice, contain materials of an informational nature about domestic and foreign achievements of science.