Soviet analogue of the Large Hadron Collider (40 photos)

About the Large Hadron Collider, which started at CERN, they know everything, but few people know that the Soviet Union was also a collider. It is located in Protvino, Moscow Region, construction began in 1960. Later, in 1983, construction began skoritelno-storage complex project with a beam energy of 3000 GeV (the proton - proton collider in superconducting magnets). As a result, for 11 years, it was built underground tunnel length of 21 km (which is more than 2 km Circle Line of the Moscow Metro), an inner diameter of 5 kilometers. In 1994, construction was completed and started trial, but, unfortunately, the funding was soon over, and the project had to be frozen. Now all that is left of the buildings, guarding grandmother-watchman and a few dogs. Very interesting photos - then.