State Research Center – Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) is a research organisation in Protvino (near Moscow, Moscow Oblast), Russia.

[1] IHEP signed an agreement concerning scientific and technical co-operation between CERN and the State Committee of the USSR on the Utilization of Atomic Energy in 1967.

From 1974 to 1993, professor Lev Solovyov (Russian: Лев Дмитриевич Соловьев) served as the director of the institute.

[4] In 1978, a scientist of the institute, Anatoli Bugorski, was irradiated by an extreme dose of proton beam.

His demise was deemed inevitable as the doctors believed he had received a dosage far in excess of what could be considered fatal.