Priozersk and kurchatov biography

Kurchatov Igor Vasilyevich was the father of Soviet nuclear power. He played a key role in the creation and development of the peaceful atom and led the development of the first atomic bomb in the USSR in the late 1940s.

The article briefly describes the life path that the Soviet physicist Igor Kurchatov went through.

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Young physicist

On January 12, 1903, Igor Kurchatov was born in the village of Simsky Zavod (now the city of Sim) in the Urals.

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His nationality is Russian. His father, Vasily Alekseevich (1869–1941), at various times worked as an assistant forester and surveyor. Mother, Maria Vasilievna Ostroumova (1875–1942), was the daughter of a local clergyman. Igor was the second of three children: his sister Antonina was the eldest, and his brother Boris was the youngest.

In 1909, after the family moved to Simbirsk, studies began at the Simbirsk gymnasium, where Igor graduated from elementary school.

Three years later,