Issued as part of Russia's long-running commemorative program celebrating domestic industrial achievements, this piece marks the centenary of the Soviet and Russian nuclear industry — an anniversary tied to the founding organizational structures that eventually produced the first Soviet atomic bomb test in 1949 and the world's first grid-connected nuclear power station at Obninsk in 1954. Rosatom, the state nuclear corporation established in 2007, now operates the world's largest portfolio of reactor construction projects abroad, a commercial dominance this coin implicitly celebrates.
Issued as part of Russia's long-running commemorative program celebrating domestic industrial achievements, this piece marks the centenary of the Soviet and Russian nuclear industry — an anniversary tied to the founding organizational structures that eventually produced the first Soviet atomic bomb test in 1949 and the world's first grid-connected nuclear power station at Obninsk in 1954. Rosatom, the state nuclear corporation established in 2007, now operates the world's largest portfolio of reactor construction projects abroad, a commercial dominance this coin implicitly celebrates.