Burgov, Nikolai Andreevich

Nikolai Andreevich Burgov (1915 -?) - Soviet scientist, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, laureate of the Stalin Prize .

Nikolai Andreevich Burgov
Date of Birth	May 13, 1915 ( 1915-05-13 )
Date of death	is unknown
Scientific field	design and experimental work on the creation of an atomic boiler
Awards and prizes

Born May 13, 1915 in Petrograd. He graduated from Leningrad State University (1939), worked there.

Member of the war since September 1941. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star (1944), World War II degree (1985), and the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad" (1945).

After demobilization, he worked in the Heat Engineering Laboratory (TTL). Member of a nuclear project.

In 1951 (October 17), under the guidance of A. I. Alikhanov, V. V. Vladimirsky, A. D. Galanin and N. A. Burgov, the first industrial heavy water reactor OK-180 (Chelyabinsk-40) was launched in the USSR to produce weapons-grade plutonium, and then tritium.

Subsequently, he worked at ITEF, at the Scientific Council of the Academy of Sciences on Nuclear Spectroscopy (until 1989), then - ITEF professor-consultant.

The 1953 Stalin Prize - for design and experimental work on the creation of an atomic boiler.