Background
Irodov was born in Murom, Vladimir Oblast, Russia.
Irodov was born in Murom, Vladimir Oblast, Russia.
He is mostly known as a physics professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Engineering (MEPHi) and the author of a series of handbooks on general physics, which became lecture courses in physics in several countries. When he was eight his family moved to Moscow, where he lived until his death. During World World War II he fought with various infantry units at the 1st and 4th Ukrainian Fronts, also acting as a drafter and cartographer.
He went through Russia, Ukraine and Poland, ending the war in Czechoslovakia.
In October 1945 Irodov was demobilized and sent to Moscow to recover his health. In February 1946, he entered the Physics Faculty of MEPHi, graduating with honors in November 1950 with a diploma of designer and operator of physics equipment.
Starting from 1954 he worked at the General Physics Department of MEPHi, first as a lecturer and since 1976 as a full professor
After that he worked on his Doctor of Philosophy titled Focusing and dispersive properties of particular magnetic fields (Russian: Исследование фокусирующих и диспергирующих свойств некоторых вариантов магнитных полей), which he defended in May 1956 under Academician Lev Artsimovich.