It did not take a long time for such leading Soviet theorists as Lev Landau, Karen Ter-Martirosian and Vladimir Gribov to recognize Alexey Anselm as a talented and capable physicist.

Konstantinov Leningrad Nuclear Physics Institute of the USSR Academy of Science (LNPI) [ru].

Besides research, since 1974 A. Anselm was also a professor at the Physics Department of the Leningrad State University where he was teaching graduate courses.

The years immediately after collapse of the Soviet Union were perhaps the most difficult period in the history of this renowned scientific institution.

«Anselm’s work dates back to rather gloomy days for field theorists, after Landau’s discovery of the so-called "zero charge" or, infrared freedom in modern terminology.» Anselm’s Discovery of the Gross–Neveu model in M. Shifman Under the spell of Landau 2013, chapter 11, pp.488-490.