ABOUT Joint Institute For Nuclear Research

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) is an international intergovernmental scientific research organisation established through the Convention signed on 26 March 1956 by eleven founding States and registered with the United Nations on 1 February 1957. It is situated in Dubna not far from Moscow in the Russian Federation. The Institute was established with the aim of uniting the efforts, scientific and material potentials of its Member States for investigations of the fundamental properties of matter. The main fields of JINR activity are theoretical and experimental studies in elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, and condensed matter physics. There are 7 Laboratories at JINR, by the scope of scientific activities each being compatible with a large research institution.