M.N. Mikheev Institute of Metal Physics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMP UB RAS) is the largest academic institute in the Ural Federal District and Russia’s research flagship in such fields as physics of  magnetically ordered crystals and metallic nanostructures, material science, methods of nondestructive testing, radiation solid state physics, the theory of strongly correlated electron systems.

The Institute is a co-founder and base institution of such journals of the Russian Academy of Sciences as "The Physics of Metals and Metallography" and  "Russian Journal of Nondestructive Testing", which are issued in Russian and English.

IMP in cooperation with the Ural Federal University named after B.N. Yeltsin (UrFU) established a scientific and educational center "The Higher Academic School of Metal Physics UrFU-IMP UB RAS".

The Institute of Metal Physics has all the necessary equipment to fabricate objects for investigation, expose materials and products to extreme treatments and study their physical properties. To efficiently use the unique equipment, IMP set up the Collaborative Access Center "Testing Center of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials".