Republic of Kazakhstan

General information on collaboration

The Republic of Kazakhstan has been a Member of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) since its establishment according to the Agreement on founding the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research as of 26 March 1956. As a sovereign republic, Kazakhstan has been a JINR Member State since 1992.

Staff members of the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Atomic Energy and the Institute of Physics and Technology traditionally visit the JINR laboratories. The international JINR business meeting for the GIBS facility was held in 1987 near Alma-Ata at the sports complex Medeo. The INP (Alma-Ata) took an active part in organising this event.

Kazakhstani physicists take part in the development of accelerators for radiation technologies, the JINR experimental base for the production of intense beams of heavy ions and polarized nuclei. Joint mathematical support of experimental and theoretical research conducted at JINR is provided. The DC-60 Cyclotron was developed by the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions together with the INP and then was delivered, launched and debugged in Kazakhstan for the INP branch in Astana.

In 2009, the guest session of the Committee of Plenipotentiary Representatives of the Governments of the JINR Member States was held in Astana for the first time at which an important project of the Seven-year JINR Development Plan for 2010-2016 was adopted.

Moreover, participants of the session visited Gumilev Eurasian National University where an agreement on collaborative nuclear physics training of bachelor and master students was signed between the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, the State University “Dubna” and Gumilev Eurasian National University.

In 2010, a four-party agreement with the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University for collaborative nuclear physics training of bachelor and master students was signed. Nowadays, in the frames of the agreement, more than 100 Kazakhstani bachelor and master students have been trained in Dubna State University and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. More than 30 employees are postgraduates or PhD students of higher education institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation. Kazakhstani specialists have defended 10 PhD and (or) candidate dissertations at JINR and domestic universities from 2010 to 2020.

Astana (Kazakhstan), 19–21 November 2009. Conference of the JINR Committee of Plenipotentiary representatives

Kazakhstan in JINR today

Nowadays, more than 100 young scientists and specialists work at JINR in all the JINR laboratories. They are engaged in research on various fields of nuclear and neutron physics, accelerator technology, radiation material sciences, information and cloud technologies. They take an active part in large-scale international mega-science projects etc. About 10-12 bachelor and 2-3 master students graduate annually in the frames of the two-degree education programme at the expense of the grant of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Fruitful scientific cooperation of Kazakhstani employees with JINR scientists continues strengthening and expanding. Thanks to this cooperation, Kazakhstani scientists now have new opportunities for the development of contacts with the world’s largest centers.

In 2017-2019, on the basis of the resources of the INP organizations (INP branch in Astana, in particular) and the «Nazarbayev University Library and IT services» PE, the cloud infrastructure was created. It is integrated with the cloud of the Laboratory of Information Technologies JINR into a single Distributed Informational Computing Infrastructure (DICI) with the use of grid-technologies based on the DIRAC middleware. At the moment, this environment is being used and developed on the basis of LIT JINR resources and the Kazakhstani organizations. Support and development of such infrastructure are relevant due to the desire of both parties to unite efforts and resources to resolve fundamental and applied problems successful implementation of which is impossible without new approaches to conducting distributed and parallel calculations and using the systems of distributed big data storage.

In November 2019, a new neutron radiography and tomography facility at the WWR-K reactor was launched in the INP. The neutron radiography and tomography facility was developed in the frames of the scientific and technical cooperation of specialists from the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics and the Institute of Nuclear Physics. The facility has been created at the first horizontal channel of the WWR-K research reactor and is the only facility of the kind in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Astana (Kazakhstan), 30 September 2022. Meeting of JINR Director Grigory Trubnikov with President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

Scientific Themes and Projects

The scientists of Kazakhstan take part in the research work on the following themes of the Topical plan for JINR research and international cooperation for the year 2025:

Theoretical Physics
Cooperation on 2 themes.
Elementary Particle Physics and High-Energy Heavy-Ion Physics
Cooperation on 3 themes.
Nuclear physics
Cooperation on 3 themes.
Condensed Matter Physics
Cooperation on 1 theme.
Information Technology
Cooperation on 1 theme.
Applied Innovation Activities
Cooperation on 1 theme.
Scientific and Educational Programmes
Cooperation on 1 theme.

Cooperating organizations

At present JINR collaborates most actively with the following scientific organizations of Kazakhstan:

Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP) of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Atomic Energy
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
Physical-Technical Institute of the Ministry of Education and Science of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Gumilev Eurasian National University
Scientific Research Institute of Experimental and Technical Physics of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (SRIETP)
Sarsen Amanzholov East Kazakhstan State University
Autonomous organization of education “Nazarbayev University”

Plenipotentiary representative

The Plenipotentiary representative of the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan in JINR since October 2022 to the present day is Sakhiyev Sayabek Kuanyshbekovich, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, General Director of the RSE “Institute of Nuclear Physics” of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Atomic Energy.

Plenipotentiares of the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan in JINR since 1992:

1992 – 2000

Vladimir Okolovich, Academician, First Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan;

2000 – 2017

Kairat Kadirzhanov, Professor, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, CEO of the National Nuclear Centre of the Republic of Kazakhstan, winner of the State prize of the RK;

2017 – 2020

Ergazy Kenzhin, Corresponding Member of the National Engineering Academy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, General Director of the RSE “Institute of Nuclear Physics” of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Atomic Energy.

2020 – 2022

Batyrzhan Karakozov, Candidate of Technical Sciences, General Director of the RSE “Institute of Nuclear Physics” of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Atomic Energy.

2022 – present day

Sakhiyev Sayabek Kuanyshbekovich, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, General Director of the RSE “Institute of Nuclear Physics” of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Atomic Energy.

Members of the Scientific Council

Members of the Scientific Council from Kazakhstan since 1992 were:

1992 – 1993

Mikhail G. Itkis, Chief Researcher of the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP) of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Deputy Director of the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions of JINR;
Nogerbek N. Nurgozhin, Chief of the Laboratory of Electronic Experiments, the Institute of High Energy Physcis KAS;
Vladimir N. Okolovich, Academician, First Vice-President KAS;

1993

Aset A. Chumbalov, Researcher of the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR;

1994

Arigam Sh. Gaitinov, Director of the Laboratory of Relativistic Nuclear Physics of INP KAS;

1995–1996

Mikhail G. Itkis, Chief Researcher of the Institute of INP KAS, Deputy Director of the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions of JINR;

1997–2003

Vladimir N. Okolovich, Academician, First Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan;

2003–2017

Alnur Duisebaev, Director of the Laboratory of Nuclear Processes, the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the National Nuclear Centre of Kazakhstan;

2017–2022

Maxim V. Zdorovets, Director of the Astana Branch of the Institute of Nuclear Physics.

2022 – present day

Nasurlla Burtebaev, Head, Laboratory of Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions, Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Atomic Energy

National groups

They take part in solving issues concerning the stay of their fellow citizens and family members in Russia, the organisation of their daily life and leisure.

Yerzhan Mukhamejanov

Head of the national group of Kazakhstan, Senior Researcher at the VBLHEP JINR

+7 (496) 216-75-08

email: mukhamejanov@jinr.ru

Dosbol Baigarashev

Deputy Head of the national group of Kazakhstan, Junior Researcher at the VBLHEP JINR

+7 (496) 216-21-93

email: dbaigara@jinr.ru

Alisher Mutali

Deputy Head of the national group of Kazakhstan, Junior Researcher at the FLNR JINR

+7 (496) 216-28-02

email: mutali@jinr.ru