The International Conference on Plasma Physics, held from 6 to 12 April 1987 in Kiev, was organized by the Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Institute for Metal Physics of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences, supported by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Institute of General Physics, Space Research Institute, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Siberian Branch) and sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).