More than twenty kilo­me­ters of tun­nels, lots of out­puts and cham­bers for equip­ment and shafts are hid­den under­ground near the city of Protvino. A huge cir­cu­lar ram­i­fied under­ground sys­tem was built for sci­ence needs. At the moment of the com­mence­ment of con­struc­tion works (in early 80s) it was the might­i­est project of this sort. Need­less to say that such a con­struc­tion seems fan­tas­tic even now. Years of uphill work, tons of tech­ni­cal equip­ment and people’s supreme efforts were directed at the project real­iza­tion. A hadron col­lider could answer ques­tions con­cern­ing the uni­verse cre­ation and make a lot of use­ful discoveries.

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