Venedikt Petrovich Dzhelepov (Russian: Венедикт Петрович Джелепов; April 12, 1913 – March 12, 1999) was a Soviet physicist.
A couple of years upon graduation in 1937 he began in 1939 working with I. V. Kurchatov on the first in Europe cyclotron in the Radium Institute.
The joint researches with Kurchatov determined Dzhelepov's entire further career.
[2] In August 1943, Dzhelepov joined the group of the first staff members of Laboratory No.
In 1948 Dzhelepov was given by Kurchatov a new task as deputy director of the new Laboratory being developed in Dubna (later became the Institute for Nuclear Problems within the USSR Academy of Sciences (he held this position in 1948-1956).