Universal History Annotation << Back THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST UNDERWATER EXPLOSION IN THE USSR (IF THE MEMORY OF A YOUNG THEORIST) N.M. Kuznetsov Memories of the author that in 1954–1958 years at the Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR were performed the theoretical study of the effect of air and underwater nuclear explosions under the supervision of the Director of the Institute – Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Semenov, the future Nobel Prize winner. The reader learns how the seemingly random twists and turns in the biography of author – a student of two universities and then Researcher, Physics-theorist were actually predetermined by Atomic Project, crucial for our great country as a whole and for each of its citizen. Memories are made up of short stories about the author’s period of study at the Leningrad State University and the Moscow Engineering – Institute of Physics and the fi rst stages of the work at the Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Keywords: Leningrad, Professor V.V. Ipatyev, Academician M.A. Leontovich, academician N.N. Semenov, the air and water equations of state, the shock wave. Contacts: E-mail: icp@chph.ras.ru Pp. 61-77.