I'm studying for the JEE and Yes! Irodov is a beautiful book. That, along with Krotov, tells me Russia must have had an excellent program, with their Physics books from the above, their Chemistry books from Landau, and their Math Circles.
Lev Landau was a Physicist. And I really liked his book on Quantum Mechanics.
Landau's books[0] are very famous among advanced undergrads and grad students of Physics in India.
Landau also measured the genius of his contemporaries[1]. He gave himself a 1.5, and 1 to Schrodinger, Satyen Bose, etc. Eisnstein was 0.5. (Lower the better)
