Domestic megascience facilities will help solve the problem of intensive interdisciplinary development in the scientific and innovative sphere and create conditions for expanding international cooperation. Andrey Fursenko, Assistant to the President for Scientific and Educational Policy, stated this in his welcoming speech to the participants of the first international conference SKIF-2026.
The construction of the SKIF synchrotron was completed in June 2026. After its launch, it will allow 'looking inside' matter and obtaining ultra-precise data on its structure and behavior. In August, President Vladimir Putin attended the opening — he congratulated scientists on the creation of the megascience facility.
Fursenko noted that the conference will address issues of fundamental and applied research, the application of results in industry, and the development of instrument engineering. He emphasized that with the support of the Russian Science Foundation, leading Russian and foreign scientists, including winners of the megagrant competition, will take part in the conference.
The first scientific experiments at the synchrotron are scheduled for September, and the facility is planned to be put into industrial operation in December 2026: Andrey Travnikov, Governor of the Novosibirsk Region, reported on how SKIF will reach full capacity.
Earlier, the Novosibirsk Region additionally received 608.8 million rubles from the federal budget for the operation of SKIF, including the start of pilot industrial operation of the accelerator-storage complex and the first experiments.
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