The collection is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the implementation in 1932 for the first time in the USSR of the splitting of the atomic nucleus, carried out by scientists of the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology in Kharkov K. D. Sinelnikov. D.I. Leipunsky, A.K. Walter, G.D. Latyshev by shelling a lithium target with accelerated protons with an energy of 250 keV. It reflects some of the main stages of the development of nuclear physics in the USSR over the past 50 years. The results of research in the field of experimental and theoretical research in nuclear physics, particle physics, physics and technology of accelerators and nuclear energy are presented.