Igor Vasilievich Kurchatov (1933-1957)

I.V. Kurchatov in 1933 (first filming).

Kurchatov among scientists in the laboratory.

View of the session hall of the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU in the Grand Kremlin Palace in February 1956. I.V. Kurchatov delivers a report from the podium at the congress session, panorama of the hall, delegates in headphones listening to Kurchatov's speech.

Views and panorama of the session hall of the congress (from above), applauding delegates. I.V. Kurchatov among the officers of the cruiser "Ordzhonikidze" en route to England in April 1956. Kurchatov next to a British naval officer.

Panorama of port facilities.

The cruiser "Ordzhonikidze" on a voyage.

Seascape.

Kurchatov talks with British scientists during his visit to the nuclear center in Harwell in April 1956, faces of Kurchatov and his British colleagues.

Aircraft designer A.N. Tupolev and I.V. Kurchatov during a meeting with British scientists during the Soviet delegation's visit to England.

View of the meeting hall of the jubilee session of the Academy of Sciences in the assembly hall of Moscow State University in 1957. I.V. Kurchatov among the members of the presidium.

View of a part of the hall and the presidium. I.V. Kurchatov and Academician P.L. Kapitsa in the presidium of the meeting.

The presidium of the meeting, the speaker speaks from the rostrum.

Participants of the meeting in the hall listen to the speakers.

Views of the building of the Moscow Sports Palace on November 6, 1957. Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR go to the meeting of the jubilee session in honor of the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution, among them is I.V. Kurchatov.

The building of the Sports Palace.

Delegates of the 21st Congress of the CPSU go to the Grand Kremlin Palace for the first meeting of the congress on January 27, 1959, cars passing through the square.

Kurchatov I.V. among the delegates walking to the congress session.

Delegates' cars at the entrance to the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Kurchatov I.V. speaks from the podium during the congress session; delegates listen to Kurchatov's speech; views of the congress hall.

Delegates of the 21st Congress of the CPSU in the St.

George's Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace during a break in a regular congress session.

Kurchatov I.V. talks with congress delegates.

Congress delegates in the St.

George's Hall.

Medals of the World Peace Council before the presentation ceremony in 1959. Participants in the ceremony are sitting at the table, among them is Academician P.L. Kapitsa.

Ceremony of presenting commemorative medals and certificates.

Presentation of a certificate and medal to Academician P.L. Kapitsa.

Presentation of a medal and certificate to Kurchatov I.V. Presentation of certificates and medals to Soviet scientists.

Panorama of the event.

Kurchatov I.V. in my office during a meeting with a foreign colleague.

Academician I.V. Kurchatov gives an interview sitting at a table in his office.