FIRST CHIEF DIRECTORATE AND INSTITUTES ENGAGED IN ATOMIC RESEARCH

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 1, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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eBJECT First Chef Directorate and institutes -Bnga.:ecl NO, OF P GES 6l
in Atomic Research
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1. The eenerai direction and co rdination of ato:'?ic research In the U33,"i Is
conducted by. the First Chief Di.recto>?ate attached to the Council o; Ministers
of the USSR' t; er c,y e GI_avrzoye 1J ro.v"""Ye psi Sovete ;di.ni st'? ov " > ,t 50X1-HUM
2., The offices of this ors; nizati.on are located in "Moscow on 50X1-HUM
ulitsa in the vicinity of the 1%asarn railwey st, tion.. The nffic s ar, lro~`ir~3.;r
located in two or more buildings,
there are no e rdlboard# or inscri.-ptions on the -,,7&.,i_CL
The sentries and sDeCia'l_ pa ss-? :`suin, office are :inside the bui .d-ing, From
the out side., the buildings do not ';k, e the l Tfr3> k'li:'::i_011 of being an !;cpoa" taut
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the head of the First Chief 1)i rector ate ks Vanin..
a certain Utkin1 s~a.~Dervisec Ghe Institute of Gen ores
Inorganic Chemistry on bel
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the !`lrs1-, Chief Directorate cooTC~.3.3.11te all atomic
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is engage In secret research In close contact with special Laboratory SO. 3.
Workers are taken to Laboratory No. 2 by busses which start from the Iiuzhsa
Plo shchad..
to d. special passon are required for entrance.
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Special Laboratory No. 3, Which 50X1-HUM
n the Moscow suburb of Pokrovs c-Strechnevo or Po ovsko GleboVQ,
The of'61ces an laboratories are locate isa a sze t~uildi . ttisx en saes bor in:
buildings are still in the ;,,Tocees of construction numerous 50X1-HUM
PW working on the scaffoldings. The inside of the building is heavily guarded
Deputy Director of the laboratory
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.Acado.!$ of Sciences
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is a corresponding member of the
The Director of
al Laboratory No. 3 is member of the Academy o c ences So'bolev.
17. Special Laboratory No. 3 works on the s,op rz tiaa of 50X1-HUM
A special. group of designers or constructors attached to this laboratory was
employed in building various apparatus to test the porous membranes used in
the separation of isotopes bty the diffusion method.
1.S. All orders to the Soviet industry originated by Special Laboratory No. 3
go throw the First Chief Directorate and must be executed immediately.
19. The laboratory has Its own gas generator and probably Its owu power
station.
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Fa'uring, recent months :e o laboratory trot ~ers DW. e o1 n e
and throat hemorrhages which the doctors were taneble to stop..
a qQ aj.. ' tea .I SjT
21. The Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Agader v of Sciences o.: the USSR
is located In Moscow, at BolshamEaluzhekega alitsa 31, in the .a se building
as the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry. The director of this
institute is Academician `rumIIdn, who is also director of the L _'bQ a4ory
of Nlectro Chemistry at Moscow University.
22. Since the spring of 1947, this institute has directed its activities to
research on combinations of urr~. niuTn. The director accepted this charsgc
more willingly than other scientists and.. probably as a result, the institute
was ?;i.von an entlrel.;~ see ate wing in the buxldi.aag and complete ly now
equipment. The now program was the result of directives r< celved from the
first Chief Directorate. Notice boards were placed on nearly all doors of
the institute reading, "Secret work; entrance prohibited". All doors were
covered with felt.
23. The following persons are Ion to have been employed at thio iurtitv.tet.
a. Director of the X-ray Labor ato r;?y: Dankov.
b. Director of the Laboratory of Superficial Phenomena (La'bo~,rato~:riya
Povorkhnostnil h r'aavvlonii ): lscadomic1an :Pdtr Alekssancirovsa ch # i,nd:car .
This laboratoi7 studied superficial phenomena observable on tho borders
of two r. dia; for in staneo liquid em al:sio +, liquid foam. R.obinder
has published much work on this subject.
c. Scientific workers: Roginski. Duhovitskt- Sh.etokster,,, and,
1 i.g ovski.
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". 1 The fo1 e'ii ; 1nstitut o o the .ezi of Sc~ie ice ~ d.i ~,cte th&: acN~r .g,i
to the probiome con_ ectodj. with atomic re3aareh:
P,,. Institute of Crgwtic Cher,,.atry, Director'. As czelczadcia . eemeey 3ov.
b. L ietitute of Cbernicaa, M..,y:3108, #ioecow, near a* aye a o ee
Wise tors Academicis* , Stks,=U,z ov.
c. Institute of kbvetca ? F oblenas, Moscow, aluzaekoye
D1r a 1a ' . ti . spri t i%L 7 Peter Mapitza- In the sprite of 19i7
,,,oat as, Director of l'Iyt ical ?roblor o
` api tsa was de r~ s from his
of Rector of zaav University but did not taace over h1lo di ti,.ee
e mil from other posts, i- ciudinti that, of General Htana or of the
alavkli slorcd pl bta. Articles s slao rin In t*hs press accuecd
-pit za o misa emeut of the affaire of Ci,avklslorod amd of
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s41owan won prod-action data., Kapi ea was aapointed, tot
About erch 19431 I
c a'2ae d[ wi. that, apitii 7 ~,~s 1_med h rbz *,an~iz- n 7r,s ~+rs*r ?~~.. x sn
22equentl.,y visited by azsalorta:nt persons.
re l.t of hin refu., a1 to alter the work of hiu i.netitaate. and It Was
t bought. `r mt his reias3tatolucnt , '.salted. from hie s ra-,Aa to govor
msu` "oreessnre.
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mx cable. coraaaec ted with the atomic nucleu ,, Candidates szeleoteq
iL Institute of Plsysice Mran). D:aIrectar? Vavilov, President of the
eadea of Sciences. Location g own.
Lnstitote of Cry anir Gkemi.; try, Moscow, :3olshpya Kal .zrhnka ya, No R 31a-
?9L7r t .c P ,yssical ?acsxlty of the University has had a ar=ia]. "~+baaxa~.ia to
sine:? late I or e
to sting their dtploza s, wore past at 1 ,he disposal of the First Phiqf
Directorate and were eranp oycd acccr?L''.nn to its inst .otionoo
to std these problem v ari.s;iw nt A VI) earaaentng. All o-16"' t .4om, after 66-
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laborztor o t3aena?aroity ofiu
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or of the . mragr laboratory at e u nivers .u;y o s.-a, ;r : -Tsxxc'
and collaborated for a very long period tsi .'rofec ow? a tra- m xid