Rosatyy is a character accidentally invented by National Leader D.A. Medvedev back when he was still First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government.

"I'll pass it on to rosatoye so they can consider the idea," the Deputy Prime Minister said at the time. The idea itself is built on a simple wordplay — the abbreviation of the Federal Agency for Atomic Energy (and somewhat later, the state corporation) "Rosatom", combined with the name of a character from the horror-comedy stories about Usatyy, became the name of a monstrous techno-fascist monster — Rosatyy.

Criticism

The main criticism comes from non-commercial organizations and boils down to the environmentalists' slogan "Say No to Rosatom."

Rosatyy's Toys

In America in the 1950s, rather amusing children's toys containing radioactive isotopes were sold.

  • "Atomic Laboratory," 1959.

The kit contained a spinthariscope, a simple Wilson cloud chamber, an electroscope, and 2 radioactive samples — Uranium and Radium.

  • "Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab" contained heavy isotopes of uranium in the form of a children's toy.

It was sold for only one year, from 1951 to 1952, after which it was banned from circulation. It cost $50 — a considerable sum of money for the time.

It included 4 types of uranium ore, a beta-alpha source (Pb-210), a pure beta source (Ru-106), a gamma source (Zn-65?), a spinthariscope, a Wilson cloud chamber, an electroscope, a Geiger counter, a manual, a comic book about the benefits of atomic energy, and the government publication "Prospecting for Uranium." Recently one of these toys sold for 8 kilobucks.

Rosatyy in Nizhny Novgorod

Rosatyy in the Press