Protvino
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Expand Russian Template:Infobox Russian town
Protvino (Russian: Протвино) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located about Template:Convert south of Moscow and Template:Convert west of Serpukhov, on the left bank of the Protva River. Population: Template:Ru-census
HistoryEdit
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.Template:Citation needed The UNK Collider was the last big planned particle accelerator.
Among the discoveries made at IHEP are that of antihelium and the Serpukhov cross-section effect.
Administrative and municipal statusEdit
Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as Protvino Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.<ref name="Ref1406">Law #11/2013-OZ</ref> As a municipal division, Protvino Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction is incorporated as Protvino Urban Okrug.<ref name="Ref795">Law #159/2004-OZ</ref>
TransportEdit
In the city the Protvino railroad station is located, although it is only used for cargo transport. Public transport is provided by buses.
Twin towns – sister citiesEdit
Protvino is twinned with:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Div col
- Template:Flagicon Antony, France
- Template:Flagicon Bowling Green, United States
- Template:Flagicon Gomel, Belarus
- Template:Flagicon Lahoysk, Belarus
- Template:Flagicon Milan, United States
- Template:Flagicon Somero, Finland
Notable peopleEdit
- Nixelpixel (born 1993), feminist and cyber activist
- Vitali Yelsukov (born 1973), football player
- Anatoli Bugorski (born 1942), survivor of a particle accelerator accident
- Inga Kuznetsova (born 1974), surrealist poet and writer