Any breakthrough in science begins with a well-timed question. The person who is the first to find the right solution has every chance of going down in history. Apparently, scientists become people who are interested in living in our world and who want to change it for the better. Anatoly Alexandrov was just such a person. He always strived to find a simple, but not easy solution! Thanks to his large-scale thoughts and rational approach, he became the father of the first nuclear reactors, launched a nuclear submarine and the nuclear icebreaker Lenin. It would seem that there was no task that was beyond his capabilities. So, as President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, this unique ability of Anatoly Petrovich to bring any task to the end came in handy. “The Chief of Science,” among other things, was a great fun-loving guy, a talented actor and a great family man. Read about a life full of events and meaning in this book.