The 14^th International Conference on II-VI compounds (II-VI-2009) will be held by the Ioffe Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. This meeting continues a series of biannual conferences, which was started in Durham, UK, in 1983. The latest conferences were held in Niagara Falls, USA, 2003; Warsaw, Poland, 2005; Jeju, Korea, 2007.