Hiroshi Amano, Nobel Prize winner in physics for the blue light-emitting diodes (2014), visited VEPP-2000 collider during excursion over BINP facilities.

All modifications of VEPP-2000 storage ring itself are finished. These changes include: two new dipoles' vacuum chambers with additional inflectors; new mirrors for synchrotron radiation output for beam diagnostics; second screper near CMD-3; repair of solenoid with protective vacuum leakage. Vacuum system is assembled, RF cavity is baked. All magnetic elements are mounted and aligned. Storage ring is ready to accept beams except for the absence of transfer channels and disassembled booster synchrotron.

   BEP quads began to return from BINP workshops. The magnetic measurements with rotating coils were started.
   All steering coils were finally installed into BEP dipoles. Dipoles are installed and aligned at the ring.
   CMD-3 detector has tested it's solenoid, magnetic field of 13 kGs was obtained. VEPP-2000 final focusing solenoids shifts were observed and measured.

Криогенный Магнитный Детектор (КМД-3), один из двух детекторов на ВЭПП-2000, который был выкачен с кольца в сторону для ремонта на время модернизации комплекса, готовится занять вновь своё место на коллайдере. Эта сложная процедура включает в себя подвешивание соленоидов финального фокуса, стыковку их вакуумных камер с дрейфовой камерой детектора, и вкатывание по рельсам этой развесистой системы с последующей прецизионной выставкой магнитных элементов на своих подставках.