Academy of Sciences of Belarus and Russian Kurchatov Institute - mutual interest and close cooperation

14 июля 2022

In the conditions of sanctions pressure, the Belarusian and Russian scientists cannot stay away from solving urgent tasks of import substitution and sustainable development of our economies. More than 60 joint scientific programs have already been implemented in the Union State. 

Today, our Academy of Sciences and the Kurchatov Institute work closely together. Our Russian colleagues have a unique technological base and developments in a wide range of areas. Now some of them will be developed in close cooperation with Belarusians. 

National Academy of Sciences and Kurchatov Institute: Cooperation map until 2030

In general, wide horizons for joint projects have been opened about a year ago: the National Academy of Sciences and Kurchatov Institute approved the work plan for the next 10 years. The portfolio of joint discoveries will be replenished, including on the basis of the representative office of the Russian research center recently unveiled in Minsk. It has 5 laboratories. Scientists are convinced that this is a fundamentally new level of interaction and dialogue on equal terms. 

Vitaly Zalessky, Director of the Institute of Physics and Technology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus:


The interaction with big institutes is always beneficial. Secondly, it raises our level, because we are plunged into a set of such problems of the global level. It makes us develop our material and technological base, because the problems need to be solved at the highest level. 

Kurchatov Institute supported Belarusian colleagues during the construction of the nuclear power plant. And today, when Belarus has become a country of peaceful atom, joint large-scale research takes on special significance. And it's not just energy; it's medicine and pharmaceuticals, industry, agriculture, environment and microelectronics (the list is far from complete). - The potential for development is enormous, and it can be realized to the maximum with experienced colleagues. 

Scientific integration

Kurchatov Institute offers Belarusian scientists access to its entire infrastructure. In other words, scientific capabilities of Russian colleagues are our capabilities, too. Here, by the way, the production capacities of Belarusian enterprises are also in our hands. And such synergy of the scientific potential of Belarusian and Russian scientists is the union integration in its purest form.