Advances in the Physics of Stars

<p>This reprint which was edited by Prof. Dr. Nazar R. Ikhsanov Prof. Dr. Galina L. Klimchitskaya and Prof. Dr. Vladimir M. Mostepanenko contains research and review articles published in a Special Issue of the journal <em>Universe</em> in memory of outstanding astrophysicist Prof. Dr. Yuri N. Gnedin who organized and led the Department of Astrophysics at the famous Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences for several decades. In these articles the reader will find new and intriguing ideas in several topical problems of astrophysics as well as comprehensive and readily accessible sketches of a few recently performed investigations.</p>