Protvino
Sign in to saveProtvino (Russian: Протвино) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located about south of Moscow and west of Serpukhov, on the left bank of the Protva River. Population:
Key facts
- Russian town.en_name
- Protvino
- Russian town.ru_name
- Протвино
- Russian town.image_skyline
- Вид на Протвино.jpg
- Russian town.map_label_position
- left
- Russian town.image_coa
- Coat of Arms of Protvino (Moscow oblast).png
- Russian town.image_flag
- Flag of Protvino.svg
- Russian town.federal_subject
- Moscow Oblast
- Russian town.adm_city_jur
- Protvino Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction
- Russian town.adm_ctr_of
- Protvino Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction
- Russian town.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian town.urban_okrug_jur
- Protvino Urban Okrug
- Russian town.mun_admctr_of
- Protvino Urban Okrug
- Russian town.pop_2010census
- 37308
- Russian town.current_cat_date
- 1989
- Russian town.website
- http://www.protvino.ru
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Protvino (Russian: Протвино) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located about south of Moscow and west of Serpukhov, on the left bank of the Protva River. Population:
==History== Construction of an urban-type settlement intended to house a large high energy physics research laboratory started in 1958, and the Rosatom Institute for High Energy Physics was opened here in 1965. The institute is known for the 70 GeV proton accelerator which was the largest in the world at the time it was launched in 1967, and other physics research. Town status was granted in 1989. The UNK Collider was the last big planned particle accelerator.