About the book: 2002 / The story is dedicated to the history of the creation of the atomic bomb in the USSR and is based on documentary facts. Although some facts and episodes were transferred to the Chelyabinsk plutonium zone from the history of another classified city ​​- Arzamas-16, this, in the author’s opinion, does not deprive the story of historical documentation. The author expresses deep gratitude to the head of the physics and mechanics sector of the Institute of the History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physics. - mat. Sciences V.P. Vizgin; journalist V. Larin; veterans of the nuclear industry I.P. Lazarev, A.S. Aldoshin, A.A. Samarkin, V.V. Dorovskikh, Yu.V. Linda for kindly providing a number of valuable historical documents. Special thanks to editor A.D. Schindel.