Dubna is a small town in the North of Moscow Region. The territory on which Dubna is located may be called an artificial island. As mentioned in the chronicles of the XIII century, the first settlements on the territory of nowadays Dubna started between three rivers: Volga, Dubna and Sestra.

In the 1930s a 128 km long Canal connecting the Moscow and Volga rivers was built manually by political prisoners from local forced labor camps. Moscow Canal closed the circle of rivers around a piece of land that at the time was mostly marshy forests. Nowadays the area inside the water ring is a major part of the modern town.

Ivankovskaya hydropower station in Dubna is the first hydroelectric powerstation on the Volga-river and one of the 8 hydroelectric power stations along the Canal. After dam construction it created the Ivan'kovskoye waterbasin more than 300 square kilometers in area.

Sluice number one, of the 11 sluices on the Moscow Canal, is between Volga and Ivan'kovskoye waterbasin. To get from one part of Dubna to the other across the water it is necessary to pass through a tunnel, and then move up on the dam of Ivan'kovskaya powerstation.

Another attraction of Dubna is the world's largest monument of Lenin. Once two huge Lenin and Stalin monuments were erected on each side of the entrance into the Canal. Stalin monument was demolished about 50 years ago. Only the pedestal remains. Lenin monument is in an excellent condition and weddings gather here by tradition.

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Dubna

On 28-30 July 2004 Dubna hosted the Water Ski World Cup.

Currently Dubna is home to the University of Dubna.

Dubna provides both the safety and comfort of a small academic community, as well as the opportunity to experience the culture and unique urban lifestyle of Moscow.

Dubna is called a town of science. It dates from the time immediately after the end of World War II, when a group of scientists led by Academician I. V. Kurchatov initiated construction of then the largest accelerator of charged particles - synchrocyclotron - on the bank of the Volga river, 120 km from Moscow.

On 26 March 1956, by the decision of the USSR Government and the countries then belonging to the socialist world, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research has been established in Dubna. The same year specialists from 12 countries came to Dubna. The town became international. Investigations in many fields of nuclear physics were launched here.

Many first-class achievements belong to Dubna physicists. JINR accounts for a half of the discoveries (about 40) in nuclear physics, registered in the USSR. On the eve of 1999, scientists of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in collaboration with colleagues from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA) synthesized a new long-lived superheavy element with atomic number 114. This discovery is the result of many years of effort by experimental physicists who have been searching for the 'stability island' predicted by theorists in many countries for the past 35 years.

The proposal of the world scientific community to name element 105 "Dubnium" can be regarded as recognition of the outstanding contribution made by our researchers to modern science.