A group of British physicists - specialists in the field of nuclear research, headed by the Nobel Prize laureate Professor D. Cockcroft, are present at a reception at the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Academicians of the USSR Academy of Sciences AN Nesmeyanov, AV Topchiev, VI Veksler, IE Tamm and others talk with British scientists. Guests and Soviet scientists are sitting at the set tables.