The 29 August of 2009 is the 60-th anniversary of the date, the first Soviet atomic bomb, RDS-1, was tested. The Soviet people in a heroic effort created the nuclear weapon in the ruined and drained by the war country.
The test of the first Soviet atomic bomb demonstrated to the whole humankind, that our country have mastered one of the key technological complexes of the XX century. The atomic monopoly had been done away with, thus providing the world community with peaceful coexistence for the years to come. This event had also laid the basis for the present-day security of Russia.
Tens of creative teams and hundreds of thousands people had made their input into testing of the first Soviet atomic bomb. Established as one of the fundamental elements, supporting solution of this crucial problem, was the so-called “KB-11” (design department-11), specially constituted for development of nuclear weaponry, presently known as the Russian Federal Nuclear Center – All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC-VNIIEF, Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region), where jubilee celebrations took place in late August.

On July 22, 2009, RF President D. A. Medvedev visited the RFNC-VNIIEF

“RFNC-VNIIEF has secured our planet’s stability for years ahead,” - noted D. A. Medvedev, the RF president, during his visit to Sarov on July 22, 2009.
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The 12 February of 2009 is a 75^th anniversary of Viktor Nikitovich Mikhailov – an honorary RFNC-VNIIEF Scientific Leader, Director of the Institute of Strategic Stability of Rosatom. Viktor Nikitovich is a Lenin, USSR and RF State Prize winner, Academician of the RAS. Minister of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation in 1992-1998, RFNC-VNIIEF Scientific Leader in 1992-2007.