2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/118989Around forty years passed from the beginning of operation of the first electron-positron colliding beam facility VEPP-2 in Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP), Novosibirsk. Here I described development of electron-positron colliding beam project in INP, as well as advance of similar projects of the first generation at LAL, Orsay and at LNF, Frascati.32 pages, 5 figuresHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyForty years of acting electron-positron colliderstext