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| name              = V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute
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| type              = [[Non-governmental organization|NGO]]
| founded_date      = {{Start date|1922|df=y}}
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| location          = 2nd Murinsky prospect, 28, [[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]]
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| key_people        = Acting CEO: Mr Russkikh Ivan Mikhailovich<br/>
| area_served       = Russian Federation
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| focus             = [[nuclear physics]], [[radiochemistry]] and [[radioecology]]
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| subsid            = [[Rosatom]]
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| website          = {{URL|khlopin.ru}} {{in lang|ru}}
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The '''V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute''', also known as the '''First Radium Institute''', is a research and production institution located in [[Saint Petersburg]] specializing in the fields of [[nuclear physics]], [[radiochemistry|radio-]] and [[geochemistry]], and on [[ecology|ecological topics]], associated with the problems of nuclear power engineering, [[radioecology]], and [[isotope]] production.<ref>[http://www.istc.ru/istc/db/inst.nsf/wsu/i0001614?OpenDocument&lang=Eng Institution] – ISTC.</ref> It is a subsidiary company of the [[Rosatom]] Russian state corporation.<ref name="about">V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute. [http://www.khlopin.ru/english/index.php About the Institute] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717084109/http://www.khlopin.ru/english/index.php |date=2011-07-17 }}. Retrieved 25 February 2012.</ref>
The institute was founded as ''State Radium Institute'' in 1922 under the initiative of [[Vladimir Vernadsky|V. I. Vernadskiy]],<ref name="emelyanov">{{cite journal|last=Emelyanov|first=V. S.|title=Nuclear Energy in the Soviet Union|journal=Science and Public Affairs: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists|date=November 1971|volume=XXVII|number=9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jQsAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA38|pages=39|doi=10.1080/00963402.1971.11455411|bibcode=1971BuAtS..27i..38E}}</ref> integrating all radiological enterprises present in St. Petersburg (then Petrograd) at that time. This also included a factory in [[Bondyuga]] ([[Tatarstan]]), which was used by {{Interlanguage link|Vitaly Khlopin|2=ru|3=Хлопин, Виталий Григорьевич|preserve=1}} and others to generate Russia's first high-enriched [[radium]] compound.<ref name="foundation">V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute. [http://www.khlopin.ru/english/foundation.php Creation and development of the Institute]. Retrieved 25 February 2012.</ref> The Radium Institute under [[Abram Ioffe]] was relocated to Kazan in World War II.<ref>*{{cite book |last= Erickson  |first= John |title= The Road to Berlin: Stalin's War with Germany, Volume Two |orig-year= 1983 |year= 1999 |publisher= Yale University Press |location= New Haven |isbn= 0-300-07813-7  |page= 79 }}</ref>
The Radium Institute was renamed to V. G. Khlopin in his honor in 1950.<ref name="chronology">V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute. [http://www.khlopin.ru/english/hronology.php Chronology] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426033000/http://www.khlopin.ru/english/hronology.php |date=2011-04-26 }}. Retrieved 25 February 2012.</ref>
At the Radium Institute, the first European [[cyclotron]] was proposed by [[George Gamow]] and {{Interlanguage link|Lev Mysovskii|2=ru|3=Мысовский, Лев Владимирович|preserve=1}} in 1932, being constructed with the help of [[Igor Kurchatov]], operational by 1937.<ref name="chronology" /><ref name="emelyanov"/>
== See also ==
* [[Yuri A. Barbanel]]
* [[Abram Ioffe]]
* [[Konstantin Petrzhak]]
== External links ==
*[http://www.khlopin.ru/ Official website]
== References ==
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