Dayon, M. I., Dolgoshein, B. A., et al. Spark Chamber (Iskrovaya kamera), 1967. In Russian

Дайон М. И., Долгошеин Б. А., Ефременко В. И., Лексин Г. А., Любимов В. А. Искровая камера.
Москва : Атомиздат, 1967.
319 с., ил., табл. Твёрдый издательский переплёт, обычный формат. Тираж 2250 экз.
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Dayon, M. I., Dolgoshein, B. A., Efremenko, V. I., Leksin, G. A., Lyubimov, V. A. Spark Chamber (Iskrovaya kamera).
Moscow : Atomizdat, 1967.
319 pp., illustrations, tables, diagrams. Hardcover, standard format. Print run: 2,250 copies.

This 1967 publication is a landmark in scientific literature, being the world’s first monograph entirely dedicated to the spark chamber—a revolutionary detector that bridged the gap between the visual clarity of bubble chambers and the high-speed electronic readout of modern counters. It was written by a "dream team" of Soviet experimentalists, including Boris Dolgoshein, whose pioneering work at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) and the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) laid the foundation for modern particle tracking.
The book was published at the height of a technological boom in the USSR's high-energy physics programs at Dubna and Moscow. It provides an exhaustive technical and physical analysis of spark chamber operation, where a charged particle passing through a gas-filled gap triggers a visible spark along its ionized trail when a high-voltage pulse is applied. The authors detail the transition from simple narrow-gap chambers to the sophisticated wide-gap and streamer chambers—technologies that allowed for the 3D reconstruction of complex subatomic "events" with unprecedented precision.
Within these pages, the researchers explore the gas-discharge physics, the high-voltage pulse circuitry, and the optical systems required to photograph the tracks. This monograph was not just a summary of existing knowledge but a manifesto for a new era of experimental physics that led to the construction of massive tracking systems used in the world's largest accelerators. With a limited print run of only 2,250 copies, this Atomizdat edition is a premier collector's item for those interested in the history of the "Great Physics" of the 20th century and the evolution of the tools that discovered the building blocks of the universe.