Department of Plasma Physics, Nanotechnology and Computer Physics was founded in 1987 as the Department of Optics and Plasma Physics on the base of the Department of Optics and Spectroscopy. The Department consists of "Electricity and Magnetism", "Atomic Physics", "Electrotechnics" laboratories. There are four scientific research laboratories of the Department of Plasma Physics at the SRIETP (Scientific Research Institute of Experimental and Theoretical Physics): the Laboratory of Nonlinear and Correlation Phenomena in Plasma (Head of the Laboratory - doct. of phys. and math. sci., professor Arkhipov Yu.V.), the Plasma Accelerator Laboratory (Head of the Laboratory - doct. of phys. and math. sci., associate professor Zhukeshov A.M.), the Laboratory of Mathematical Modeling of Plasma (Head of the Laboratory - doct. of phys. and math. sci., professor Dzhumagulova K.N.), the Laboratory of Dusty Plasma and Plasma Technologies (Head of the Laboratory - Ph.D. Danyarov T.).