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Resilience Amidst Adversity: Research Infrastructure as a core

January 2026

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SCIENCE IN KHARKIV RIGHT BEFORE INVASION

North-Eastern Scientific Center of MOSE and NAS of Ukraine

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40

Institutions

Universities

34

Research Hubs

5

Unique research

facilities

28

15 000

Researchers and professors

Russia

22 km

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MAIN SQUARE AFTER ISKANDER STRIKE in May, 2022

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KHARKIV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY

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INSIDE NEUTRON SOURCE

North-Eastern Scientific Center of MOSE and NAS of Ukraine

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INSTITUTE OF RADIOPHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

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Kharkiv, 2026

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SSI “INSTITUTE FOR SINGLE CRYSTALS”

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KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

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HOW DOES THE RESEARCH UNDER FIRE CONTINUE ON?

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KHARKIV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY

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Research infrastructure as National assets of Ukraine

Facilities for super-high purity metals research and production

Facilities for gas-phase thermal gradient technologies of carbon and carbon-carbon materials

Fusion facilities

Linear electron accelerators and other

Research infrastructure as Shared research facilities

Specialised Information and Computing Facility of the Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid

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KHARKIV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY

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Research infrastructure for fusion research

Assessment of optimized stellarators as an alternative line in magnetic confinement fusion

The study of plasma production scenario within Uragan2M is scalable and used for larger machines like Wendelstein7-X

Plasma-material interactions and other research

Integrated into the international and global fusion research

Facilities are involved in the EUROfusion – the EU largest research project for implementation of activities described in the Roadmap to the Realisation of Fusion Energy

Stellarators

Quasistationary Plasma Accelerators

QSPA Kh-50 & QSPA-M

Uragan-2M & Uragan-3M

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KHARKIV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY

North-Eastern Scientific Center of MOSE and NAS of Ukraine

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SUBCRITICAL NUCLEAR FACILITY

Neutron source based on the subcritical assembly driven by linear electron accelerator

  • Fundamental and applied nuclear research

  • Radioisotopes laboratory and medical isotopes production

  • Training of nuclear specialists

The facility is considered to exploit as international research center

Constructed within the International project with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)

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NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CENTRE “INSTITUTE OF METROLOGY”

SSI “Institute for Single Crystals”

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Kharkiv, 2024

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INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL VETERINARY MEDICINE

SSI “Institute for Single Crystals”

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monolayer of FLK-BLV-P cell culture

The collection of cell cultures includes 38 lines of passaged animal cell cultures used for:

  • fundamental and applied research
  • innovation activities
  • diagnostic work
  • bioindustry

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NSC “PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES OF UKRAINE”

SSI “Institute for Single Crystals”

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157 200 accessions

544 crops

1802 species

Integrated with

51800 accessions at -20 °C

14900 accessions at 4 °C

6000 accessions are stored under uncontrolled temperature conditions in hermetically sealed containers.

Active collaboration with:

Bioversity International – IPGRI (Rome, Italy);

European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources;

CIMMYT – International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (Mexico City, Mexico);

ICARDA – International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (Morocco);

ICRISAT – International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (India);

National gene banks of Sweden, Germany, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Canada, USA…

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PIDHORNYI INSTITUTE OF POWER MACHINES AND SYSTEMS

Північно-Східний науковий центр НАН України і МОН України

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Hydrodynamic test rigs

Magnetodynamic test rig

Satellite “SICH-2-1” under testing

Model of a new assembled runner for the Dniester PSPP

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SSI “INSTITUTE FOR SINGLE CRYSTALS”

North-Eastern Scientific Center of MOSE and NAS of Ukraine

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Kharkiv, 2026

3

academic

institutions

3

State Enterprises

членів

НАНУ

Professors

37

PhD’s

148

employees

800

researchers

350

24

PhD

students

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SSI “INSTITUTE FOR SINGLE CRYSTALS”

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Agriculture,

veterinary

Pharmacy, Medicine and Biology

Analytical support of industry

High-energy

Physics

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SSI “INSTITUTE FOR SINGLE CRYSTALS”

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Unique crystal growth and design technologies and approaches for the following materials:

  1. Alkali-halide single crystals.
  2. Various oxide systems (YAG, MALO, BGO. BGSO).
  3. AIIBIV (ZnSe pure and doped).
  4. Various trinary systems (CZT).
  5. Optical sapphire single crystals.

Shaping materials into detectors with the cutting-edge equipment.

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SSI “INSTITUTE FOR SINGLE CRYSTALS”

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X-ray diffractometers with computational grid cluster

Mass-spectrometers with chromatography and ICP systems

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SSI “INSTITUTE FOR SINGLE CRYSTALS”

SSI “Institute for Single Crystals”

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Research infrastructure as Shared research facilities

Establishing the center for shared research equipment, including NMR and IR spectrometers purchased within the framework of the project, which will contribute to the development of supramolecular chemistry both at the SSI “Institute for Single Crystals” and in Ukraine.

Development of new materials for biomedical and veterinary applications based on supramolecular systems of the host-guest, rotaxane and pseudorotaxane types, as well as other topologies using cucurbiturils, cyclodextrins and their modified analogues as receptors.

Project goal:

Project objective:

400MHz NMR spectrometer

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ONGOING COLLABORATIONS AND PROJECTS

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