Official Ceremony Marking the Start of Construction of SKIF in Koltsovo Science Town

An official ceremony marking the start of construction of the Shared Research Facility “Siberian Circular Photon Source” (SKIF) was held on August 25. Here are the photographs from the site.

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Director of Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Academician Valerii BUKHTIYAROV. Federal Research Center Boreskov Institute of Catalysis takes on the roles of both the Developer and the State Customer of the project.

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The General Constructor of the project is “Kontsern Titan-2”, a part of Rosatom. In the photo the second on the right is the director of the Russian nuclear projects of AO “Kontsern Titan-2” Vladimir MINAEV

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Left to right: Mikhail TARASOV, General Director of the Central Design and Technology Institute (AO “TSPTI”, affiliated with “TVEL”, the fuel company of Rosatom), the Designer of the project; Director of Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Academician Valerii BUKHTIYAROV; Vladimir MINAEV, Director of the Russian nuclear projects of AO “Kontsern Titan-2”.

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In the course of the ceremony marking the start of construction works of SRF “SKIF” a monument to elementary particle in the form of the Greek letter gamma designating photon was opened. Left to right: Governor of Novosibirsk Region Andrey TRAVNIKOV, Vice-Premier of RF Dmitry CHERNYSHENKO, Minister of Science and Higher Education of RF Valery FALKOV, First Deputy of Chair of State Duma of RF Aleksandr ZHUKOV.

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At the start of construction of SRF “SKIF” a time capsule was laid at the foot of the photon monument, which is planned to be opened in 2035. The capsule contains the letters addressed to the scientists of the future written by the 2021 alumni of the Special Education and Science Center of NSU. The time capsule was planted by Vice-Premier of RF Dmitry CHERNYSHENKO and one of the letters’ authors, Nikita SHAROV, alumnus of SESC NSU, now the first-year student of the Department of Physics of Novosibirsk State University.

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Director of Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Academician Valerii BUKHTIYAROV, and Nikolay KRASNIKOV, Mayor of Koltsovo Science Town, on the territory of which SRF “SKIF” will be constructed.

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Director of SRF “SKIF” of Boreskov Institute of Catalysis Evgeny LEVICHEV

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