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V. P. Dzhelepov

The work was of a great importance for V. P. Dzhelepov and required a lot of power and efforts. However, he had a wealth of vital energy and love of life enough to share them with his family and friends and spend for hobbies. Quoting the memoir by Irina Grigorevna Pokrovskaya, a secretary of Venedikt Petrovich… “Venedikt Petrovich was happily married. He met Tatyana Nikolaevna (Zinovieva) in Leningrad in 1941, shortly before the outbreak of war. Ever since he had loved her tenderly and devotedly, and over all ten years he lived through after her death, he grieved deeply for her.
24.03.2023
V. P. Dzhelepov, the first director of the JINR Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, was not only a talented administrator but also a great scientist. He was fond of physics and knew which areas were worth focusing on. “Venedikt Petrovich had an exceptional intuition about what areas in science would become the main ones at this or that moment,” wrote academician S. S. Gernstein. Thanks to that intuition, the key directions of DLNP scientific activity were established, some of which are successfully evolving nowadays.  
17.03.2023
“The most important principle for a leader of a scientific institution is not to impede a more talented colleague. To impede is a disaster. To support any good initiative and not to be afraid of a star coming to you with more talent than you have, with more skills, with greater ideas is a blessing. To help this colleague to unfold himself is the main task of a good leader."  
10.03.2023
Venedikt Petrovich Dzhelepov wrote: «I will share with you a curious story told me by Boris Lvovich Vannikov, the head of our First Department. He says, “You as a deputy director have difficulties, but you cannot compare your difficulties to those Kurchatov and I had had, yours are mere trifles. Well, imagine, the bomb was manufactured and set off. And they began awarding, giving honourable distinctions.  
08.02.2023
“My personality was formed both in Soligalich, where I got my primary and secondary education, and in Leningrad, where I had been working at plants for two and a half years and graduated from the institute in 1937.”