A ceremonial opening of an alley named after the remarkable Bulgarian scientist Professor Tsvetan Vylov was held on 27 November at the area of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems. Participants of the session of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries of JINR Member States, members of the JINR Directorate, Directors of laboratories and leading JINR scientists, scientific youth, colleagues and fellow-countrymen who expressed their warm memories about this splendid scientist and person attended the ceremony.

Deputy Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Agency of Bulgaria Lachezar Kostov characterized Tsvetan Vylov as an outstanding organizer of scientific research, a profound and distinctive person, teacher of a few generations of postgraduate students, impassionate enthusiast of cooperation between Dubna and Bulgaria.

Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems Director Aleksander Olshevski keeps most bright impressions of Tsvetan Vylov in his memory: ”I associate his name first of all with democratic changes in our institute. And in the 90s, which were difficult years for science, the institute survived thanks to exactly such people as Tsvetan. Overcoming a severe illness he was completing work on the history of the Laboratory of Nuclear Problems in his last days. The first volume of this book, which was actually made by him and inspired by his noble aspiration for saving time, has come out on 14 December 2009 and, is devoted to the 60th anniversary of the first Dubna’s accelerator. The next volumes will come out later”.