Scientific leaders of the Ural nuclear center

The article provides an overview of the books published in the series “Outstanding Scientists of the Urals” (editor-in-chief of the series is Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences V.N. Charushin); they are dedicated to outstanding nuclear scientists, members of the Academy of Sciences K.I. Shchyolkin, E.I. Zababakhin, B.V. Litvinov, L.P. Feoktistov, E.N. Avrorin. The books contain essays on the professional activities, social and personal lives of scientific leaders of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center – All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics named after Academician E.I. Zababakhin, memoirs of colleagues, students and relatives, declassified documents, lifetime publications and interviews of the scientists themselves on socially significant topics, sketches of a memoir nature. The book series makes a significant contribution to the reconstruction of the history of the nuclear weapons complex of Russia, many pages of which remain terra incognita for the general public.