Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (; May 21, 1921 – December 14, 1989 ) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist.

A discussion about the methods of the political use of technology in the creation of a super-bomb began the ideological divergence between Andrei Sakharov and Nikita Khrushchev.

In 1973 and 1974 the Soviet media campaign targeted both Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

In 1973 Andrei Sakharov was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1974 was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca.

An Andrei Sakharov prize is also to be awarded by the American Physical Society every second year from 2006, " to recognize outstanding leadership and / or achievements of scientists in upholding human rights ".

The Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage was established in October 1990.

The Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center, established at Brandeis University in 1993, are now housed at Harvard University.

Statue of Andrei Sakharov at Saint Petersburg State University.

* During the 1980s, the block of 16th Street NW between L and M streets, in front of the Soviet embassy, in Washington, D. C. was renamed " Andrei Sakharov Place " as a form of protest against his 1980 arrest and detention.

* Intersection of Ventura blvd and Laurel Canyon blvd in Studio City, Los Angeles is named Andrei Sakharov Square.

Andrei Sakharov with a group of Soviet dissidents, Sakharov is the first from right, the first from the left is Naum Meiman from Moscow Helsinki Group

* Sakharov, Andrei, Facets of a Life, Frontieres, 1991.

* Bergman, Jay, Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov, Cornell University Press, 2009.

* Sakharov, Andrei, Collected Scientific Works, Marcel Dekker Inc., 1982.

* Lozansky, Edward D., Andrei Sakharov and Peace, Avon, 1985.

* Gorelik, Gennady, with Antonina W. Bouis, The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom.

* Andrei Sakharov // New dictionary of scientific biography / Noretta Koertge, ed.

* The Andrei Sakharov Archives at the Houghton Library

* The Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center, established at Brandeis University in 1993, will soon cease to exist unless Congress and university officials act to save it.

* Andrei Sakharov: Soviet Physics, Nuclear Weapons, and Human Rights.

* Andrei Sakharov: Photo-chronology

* David Holloway on: Andrei Sakharov.

* Annotated bibliography of Andrei Sakharov from the Alsos Digital Library.

Since 1959 the Andrei Rublev Museum has been open at the Andronikov Monastery, displaying the art of his works and his epoch.

( Museum Origins: Readings in Early Museum History and Philosophy ( 2008 ) by Hugh H Genoways and Mary Anne Andrei )

It is home to Andrei Rublev Museum of Old Russian Art, named after the most famous monk of this abbey.

In 1985, the Andrei Rublev Central Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art was opened on the cloister's premises.

The first attempt at underwater exploration of the North Pole was made by a Russian firefighter and diver Andrei Rozhkov with a support of Diving Club of Moscow State University on April 22, 1998 but ended in fatality.

Their earliest common ancestor is one Andrei Kobyla, attested as a boyar in the service of Semyon I of Moscow.

The crisis was resolved by Kekkonen in January 1959, when he privately travelled to Moscow to negotiate with Khrushchev and Andrei Gromyko.

* January 22 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet scientist and human rights activist, is arrested in Moscow.

* December 19 – Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov is permitted to return to Moscow after years of internal exile.

In 1380, Andrei and another brother, Dmitry, sided with Prince Dmitri of Moscow against Jogaila's alliance with emir Mamai, " de facto " khan of the Golden Horde.

He won the prestigious Italian Open in 1994, defeating Boris Becker in the final, and two singles matches in the 1995 Davis Cup final against Russians Andrei Chesnokov and Yevgeny Kafelnikov in Moscow.

On his way back he stopped in Moscow on 20 March and met with Brezhnev, foreign minister Andrei Gromyko and other Soviet officials.

After Chebysheve became a professor of mathematics in Moscow himself, his two most illustrious gradute students were Andrei Andreyevich Markov ( the elder ) and Alexandr Lyapunov.

The icons by the hand of Andrei Rublev, including the Holy Trinity ( Hospitality of Abraham ), and The Savior, now in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, are painted on linden wood.

During this meeting Andrei Zhdanov, standing in for Joseph Stalin, denounced the ' moderation ' of the French Communists, even though this policy had been previously approved by Moscow.

The diagnosis of sluggish schizophrenia ( a concept developed by the Moscow School of Psychiatry and its chief, Andrei Snezhnevsky ) furnished a framework for explaining this behavior.

According to Moscow psychiatrist Alexander Danilin, the nosological approach in the Moscow psychiatric school established by Andrei Snezhnevsky ( whom Danilin considered a political offender ) boiled down to the ability to diagnose schizophrenia ; psychiatry was not science, but a system of opinions by which millions of lives were affected by a diagnosis of " sluggish schizophrenia ".

Bypassing both high school and college, he proceeded to postgraduate study at Moscow State University, where his advisor was the preeminent mathematician Andrei Kolmogorov.

In December 1981, Guth read a paper from Moscow physicist Andrei Linde saying that the whole universe is within just one bubble, so nothing is destroyed by wall collisions.

Yagoda worked closely in conjunction with Andrei Vyshinsky in organizing the first Moscow Show Trial, resulting in the successful prosecution and subsequent execution of former Soviet politicians Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev in August 1936, part of Stalin's Great Purge.

The agreement was signed in Moscow, as ten days earlier draft, the signature location would be Käkisalmi and the Soviet signer Andrei Zhdanov.

Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov (;, Mariupol – 31 August 1948, Moscow ) was a Soviet politician.

In December 1965 he organised a demonstration at Pushkin Square in Moscow in defence of the writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel ( see Sinyavsky-Daniel trial ).

He died in 1951. Andrei Platonov's grave at Armenian Cemetery ( Moscow )

Andrei Rublev probably lived in the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra near Moscow under Nikon of Radonezh, who became hegumen after the death of Sergii Radonezhsky ( 1392 ).

While still a student, he appeared in Georgi Daneliya's film I Step Through Moscow ( 1964 ) and his brother Andrei Konchalovsky's film Home of the Gentry ( 1969 ).