Khlopin Radium Institute

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KHLOPIN RADIUM INSTITUTE, located at 28 Second Murinsky Avenue, was established in 1921 by the scientist V. I. Vernadsky to study and make practical use of radioactivity. The most important achievements of the work of the Khlopin Radium Institute include the establishment of the domestic radium industry, the State Radium Reserve (established in the mid 1920s); made the first cyclotron in Europe (1937), operated by I. V. Kurchatov. It was here that domestic radio-chemistry developed into a science, new trends developed in nuclear physics and geochemistry. The research of the institute in many ways laid the groundwork for the atomic programme of the USSR. In 1946-48, specialists of the Khlopin Radium Institute developed technology for isolating Plutonium, which guaranteed its industrial production for 25 years. The institute carries out research in the sphere of physics, chemistry, geochemistry and ecology. Initially, the V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute was located at 23/1 Rontgen Street (1903-05, architect V. A. Demyanovsky). One can see memorial plaques devoted to Vernadsky and V. G. Khlopin on the building facing Kamennoostrovsky Avenue, there is a memorial plaque devoted to B. P. Nikolsky from the side of Rontgen Street, and others devoted to all the members and corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences and research assistants of the V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute in the front yard (14 names). The institute maintains a museum with the memorial study of Vernadsky and Khlopin.

References: Радиевый институт имени В. Г. Хлопина: К 75-летию со дня основания / Под общ. ред. И. Е. Ильенко. СПб., 1997.

V. V. Cheparukhin. Demyanovsky Valentin Alexandrovich
Khlopin Vitaly Grigorievich
Kurchatov Igor Vasilievich
Nikolsky Boris Petrovich
Vernadsky Vladimir Ivanovich
2nd Murinsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 28
Kamennoostrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Rentgena St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 23/1
Rentgena St./Saint Petersburg, city
Радиевый институт имени В. Г. Хлопина: К 75-летию со дня основания / Под общ. ред. И. Е. Ильенко. СПб., 1997 1921