Monument to Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov is a bronze image of a famous nuclear physicist, father of Obninsk, head of the "Nuclear project". Long before the monument to Kurchatov, Triangular, square, laid the stone with the inscription, denoting the site of the future monument.

The monument was proposed by the sculptor Oleg Konstantinovich Komov. This image Kurchatov, unlike existing ones, it was quite the chamber, and could not be located on a large Triangular area. So I decided to install it in the square next to " on the street Kurchatov.

Designed the monument to the great scientist is a slightly increased figure Kurchatov, sitting in a chair, without a jacket, on a low pedestal. This image Kurchatov made a monument more close to ordinary people, more "human". Located near birch grove has become an integral part of the composition of the monument.

According to legend, originally a kneeling bronze figure of the scientist was the bronze book, but I heard that it was stolen by vandals, although no evidence of the existence of books no.