All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics


The All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics is a research institute based in Sarov, Russia and established in 1947. During the Soviet era it was known as KB-11 and All-Soviet Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics . It is currently part of the Rosatom group.
The All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics is the former Soviet Union's premier research and development center for nuclear weapons. The first Soviet atomic bomb was developed here in the late 1940s, after which the center continued as a center for nuclear weapons research.
Many of the Soviet Union's best physicists were associated with Arzamas-16: Academician Andrey D. Sakharov worked here for nearly 20 years, and Academician Yuliy B. Khariton still served as the Center's scientific head in the 1990s.
Before being given its current name, the facility was successively known as the Volga Office, KB-11, Object No. 550, "Kremlev", "Center 300, Moscow", Arzamas-75 and Arzamas-16.
As of August 2019, the Research Institute of Experimental Physics is a very large research complex with these institutes: Theoretical and mathematical physics, Gas dynamics and explosion physics, Nuclear and radiation physics, Laser physical research, and the Scientific and Technical Complex also known as the KB, which consists of KB-1 , KB-2 , KB-3 , and KB-12 .