Exhibition "The Soviet Atomic Project: Events and People"

The exhibition "The Soviet Atomic Project: Events and People" is open at the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technollogy in the Hall of Literature on ecology and priority areas of science and technology in the main building of the library from September 13 to October 14, 2024.

The exhibition is dedicated to the history of the Soviet atomic project. The publications presented at the exhibition tell about the events related to the development and testing of atomic weapons, about the test sites of the USSR, about the reasons for the placement of top-secret facilities in the Urals and the construction of closed settlements, about the scientific and technical prerequisites for the implementation of the uranium project, about the history of the emergence of the first nuclear center in the country. The pages of the books reveal the role of leading atomic scientists who, in difficult conditions for the country, created the nuclear shield of the Motherland, laid the foundations of nuclear energy.

 The exhibition is characterized by the wide use of memoirs, reference and biographical and documentary materials. The publications presented at the exhibition are addressed to a wide range of readers interested in the history of Russian science and technology.

In preparing the exhibition, publications from the collection of the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technollogy, the Electronic Library System University Library Online, the digital educational resource IPR SMART and the scientific electronic library eLIBRARY.RU were used.

The bibliographic list of references can be found by direct link or in the Readers/Thematic exhibitions section.