The synchrotron, launched in March 1957, became the first accelerator of this type in the Soviet Union, the fourth in the world, and set a world record.

The first three accelerators were located in: in Brookhaven (USA) “Cosmotron” (3 GeV) (1952), in Birmingham (England) (1GeV) (1953) and in Berkeley (USA) “Bevatron” (6.3 GeV) (1954). Maximum energy of protons of the Dubna synchrotron reached 10 GeV. This fact had a profound effect around the world, and the word “synchrotron” has since been added to our vocabulary.

That year, the Soviet Union made revolutionary scientific breakthroughs in two areas: in October, the first artificial satellite of the Earth was launched, and a few months earlier, in March, the legendary Synchrophasotron – a giant accelerator built to study the micro world, started to operate in Dubna. These two events had a considerable impact around the world, and the words “Sputnik” and “synchrotron” entered our lives.