Protvino

Coat of arms of Protvino

Protvino (Russian: Протвино́) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, about 100 km south of Moscow and 15 km west of Serpukhov, on the left bank of the Protva River. Population: 36,175 (2002 Census).

[edit] History

Construction of an urban-type settlement intended to house a large high energy physics research laboratory started in 1958, and the RosAtom Institute for High Energy Physics was opened here in 1965. The institute is known for the 70 GeV proton accelerator which was the largest in the world at the time it was launched in 1967, and other physics research. Town status was granted in 1989.

It is worth mentioning a few discoveries made at IHEP, among them the discovery of antihelium and Serpukhov cross-section effect.

Protvino is twinned with:

Antony, France

v • d • e Cities and towns in Moscow Oblast

Administrative center: Moscow (administratively separate)

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