"Kuzkina Mother" was the name of the most powerful thermonuclear bomb detonated on Novaya Zemlya. They say that the creation of the "superbomb" was a turning point not only in the history of the "Atomic Project of the USSR," but also in the nuclear race between the USSR and the USA. About who and where it was created is told in the book of the famous writer and journalist Vladimir Stepanovich Gubarev, the author of numerous books and articles about the great achievements of the Soviet Union in science and technology.