This collection is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of Lenin and State Prizes, academician Abram Isaakovich Alikhanov - founder and first director (1945-1968 .) Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics . The book contains more than thirty articles-memories of friends, students, colleagues and relatives of an outstanding physicist, as well as popular science articles A. and . Alikhanova, relating mainly to questions of nuclear physics, letters A. and . Alikhanov and to him and some other materials about his life and activities, taken from various archives . The reference material includes the main dates of life and activities of A. and . Alikhanova, personal index, bibliography of works A. and . Alikhanova and the rubric "Shortly about the authors" . For readers interested in the history of the development of domestic nuclear science and technology .