by Viktor POPOV, Cand. Sc. (Chem.), National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" (Moscow) In 2013 Akademizdattsentr Nauka, RAS, will complete publication of the 5-volume Collection of scientific works of Acad. Anatoly Alexandrov. It is implemented on the basis of a joint decision of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RF Federal Agency for Atomic Energy (today the state corporation Rosatom) and Russian scientific center "Kurchatov Institute" (today National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute") of August 2004. Materials for publication are prepared by staff members of Kurchatov Institute and Rosatom. The editorial board is headed by RAS president, Acad. Yuri Osipov and his deputies Acad. Boris Myasoedov and RAS Corresponding Member Viktor Sidorenko. Scientific activity of Anatoly Alexandrov, which lasted for more than 60 years, involved a number of disciplines: nuclear and molecular physics, physics of solids and physics of polymers, as well as various fields of technology. Due to a unique combination of the scientist's talents, an engineer and an organizer, he received universal recognition as a leader of the biggest teams that guaranteed solution of important and topical practical tasks in atomic science and technology. When studies of his works began, enormous scientific heritage of Alexandrov had not been collected and systematized. The collections Nuclear Energy and Scientific-Technical Progress (1978) and Science for the Country (1983), issued by Nauka Publishers, contained his articles and speeches, mainly, in mass media, on general problems of development of atomic power engineering, science and technology, organization of scientific research in the USSR. They practically did not tell anything about his pre-war works at Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute (LFTI), did not reflect his contribution to the fulfillment of tasks of uranium project in 1940s-1950s, creation of national atomic fleet and nuclear power engineering in the countr ... Читать далее