Communication Practices of Interaction of the Ural Nuclear Bomb Specialists and Government Authorities

This article focuses on communication practices of interaction between specialists in the Russian Federal Nuclear Center - All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics and authorities (Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Ministry of Medium Machine-Building Industry of the USSR, Ministry of Defense) in 1950s -1980s. The study describes mechanisms, strategy and vectors of interaction, certain cases and content of communication with authorities as well as possibilities and limits of mutual influence of authorities and physicists on functioning of a large research production institution of the Soviet nuclear industry, on the industry itself and on state processes.