In memoriam of professor Lev Mikhailovich Blinov, 1939 – 2023.

At the same time, Lev Blinov maintained a close interaction with the LC laboratory at the Institute of Crystallography in Moscow and actively participated in the work on lasing in LCs. The results of the studies on LCs were summarised in Blinov's first monograph "Electrooptical and magnetooptical properties of liquid crystals" issued by the Moscow Publisher "Nauka" in 1978. In Blinov's laboratory work was carried out on anchoring energy studies of nematic LCs with substrates, various electro-optical effects and the "guest-host" effect in LCs with dichroic dyes. Since the mid-1980s, Lev Blinov became deeply involved in the physics of LC surfaces and studies of the anchoring energy I W i of nematic LCs within confining substrates. [Extracted from the article]