ProfessorYury Borisovich Rumer was a true scientist, a representative of a rare breed of scientists that included also Planck, Einstein, and Bohr. While these ones exceeded him in their power of talent, he was similar to them in their deep and sincere passion to the beauty and harmony of the laws of nature and surprising ability of a person to comprehend these laws. In addition, he was a remarkable person and a Teacher.

During 1930s, Yu.B.Rumer continued cooperating with L.D.Landau. The theory of solids contains a well-known formula of Landau-Rumer for high-frequency sound absorption in dielectrics. During the same years, L.D.Landau and Yury Borisovich wrote a popular scientific book "What is the relativity theory". Notwithstanding the fact that the book was published more than twenty years later, it attracted a real interest among readers and experienced numerous re-editions in more than 20 languages.

For almost two decades, pedagogical activity of Yury Borisovich centred around Novosibirsk university.

The electronic resource that deals with his life and work consists of a biobibliographic index, tables of contents for monographs and collection issues, full texts of several works of the scientist, and publications about him.

The biobibliographic index reflects learned works, editorial works, and literature on the scientist.

Biobibliography of Yu.B.Rumer is compiled by K.I.Elkina, principal librarian of SPSL of SB RAS.

Catalogues of the Russian State Library (RSL), Library of Congress of the USA, SPSL SB RAS stocks, a bibliographic index (compiled by L.P.Zhuravleva), Association of NSU graduates, and alternative Internet resources have been used when working on the biobibliography.

Materials of the index are arranged chronologically in two basic sections: "Index of works of Yu.B.Rumer" and "Literature on his life and work".