Andrei remembered that his own reaction had been one of indifference.

His daughter Natalya Bondarchuk is remembered as a star of Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, while his son Fyodor Bondarchuk ( who starred with him in Boris Godunov ) is a popular Russian film actor and director best known for his box-office champion The 9th Company ( 2005 ).

Along with Georgy Flyorov and Andrei Sakharov, Kurchatov is widely remembered and dubbed as the " father of the Soviet atomic bomb " for his directorial role in the development of the Soviet nuclear program, in a clandestine program during World War II formed in the wake of the USSR's discovery of the Western Allied efforts to develop nuclear weapons.

In 1948, Andrei Zhdanov appointed Khrennikov Secretary of the Union of Soviet Composers, a job he would keep until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and for which he is most remembered.

Although they are most remembered for the Death Wish sequels and Chuck Norris action pictures such as The Delta Force and Invasion U. S. A., and even the vigilante thriller Exterminator 2 ( the sequel to 1980 ’ s The Exterminator ), Cannon ’ s output was actually far more varied, with musical and comedy films like Breakin ’, Breakin ’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, The Last American Virgin, and the U. S. release of The Apple ; period romance pictures like Lady Chatterley's Lover ( 1981 ), Bolero, and Mata Hari ( 1985 ); science fiction and fantasy films like Hercules, Lifeforce and The Barbarians ; as well as serious pictures like John Cassavetes ’ Love Streams, Zeffirelli ’ s Otello ( a film version of the Verdi opera ), Norman Mailer ’ s Tough Guys Don ’ t Dance, Andrei Konchalovsky ’ s Runaway Train, and Shy People ; and action / adventure films such as the 3-D Treasure of the Four Crowns, King Solomon ’ s Mines, Cobra and American Ninja.

He made his screen acting debut in Lost Boundaries ( 1949 ), and as a film actor is best remembered for his roles as the injured puppeteer in the musical Lili ( 1953, starring Leslie Caron ), as the villainous Marquis de Maynes in Scaramouche ( 1952 ) and as Prince Andrei in War and Peace ( 1956, co-starring with his then-wife, Audrey Hepburn ).

Arkady Volsky, an aide to Andropov and other general secretaries, recounts an episode that occurred after a Politburo meeting on the day following Andropov's demise: As Politburo members filed out of the conference hall, either Andrei Gromyko or ( in later accounts ) Dmitriy Ustinov is said to have put his arm round Nikolai Tikhonov's shoulders and said: " It's okay, Kostya is an agreeable guy ( pokladisty muzhik ), one can do business with him ...." The Politburo failed to pass the decision for Gorbachev, who was nominally Chernenko's second in command, to run the meetings of the Politburo itself in the absence of Chernenko ; the latter due to his declining health, began to miss those meetings with increasing frequency.

* April 27 – Pope Paul VI and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meet in the Vatican ( the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Soviet Union ).

Still more energetic on the other side, the Russian minister, Andrei Osterman, became the treasurer as well as the counsellor of the Caps, and scattered the largesse of the Russian empress with a lavish hand ; and so lost to all feeling of patriotism were the Caps that they openly threatened all who ventured to vote against them with the Muscovite vengeance, and fixed Norrköping, instead of Stockholm, as the place of meeting for the Riksdag as being more accessible to the Russian fleet.

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.

On December 17, 1989 a public meeting organized in Kyiv by Rukh is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Andrei Sakharov, human rights campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize laureate ; 30, 000 attend.

Andrei Gromyko, one of the oldest and widely respected Politburo members, nominated Gorbachev for the position of General Secretary of CPSU, both at the March 11 meeting of Politburo and subsequently at the March 1985 Plenum ( meeting ) of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

* A day after meeting for the first time, U. S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig, and U. S. S. R. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko issued a joint statement that the two nations would resume discussions on controlling the growth of nuclear weapons in Europe, beginning on November 30 in Geneva.

Mikhalkov was 87 years old by this time and long since retired ; in fact, he is better known in modern Russia ( or rather – by the new generation of Russians ) as the father of popular film makers Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalovsky – who had dropped part of his name " Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky " when he left Russia.

Other writers to have praised Bread & Puppet include historian Howard Zinn, who praises its " magic, beauty, and power ", and poet and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu, who wrote: " The Bread & Puppet Theater has been so long a part of America's conscious struggle for our better selves, that it has become, paradoxically, a fixture of our subconscious.

Other prominent examples known for their extremely long takes include Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and the works of Andrei Tarkovsky starting with Solaris.

Andrei Vasilyev, appointed for a second stint at the helm of the daily – after a long run from 1999 to 2005 – said Kommersant-daily had no intention of following any imposed policy, and added that the edition would carry articles that might not please the owner.

Not only did Tarr's visual sensibility move from raw close-ups to more abstract mediums and long shots, but also his philosophical sensibility shifted from grim realism to a more metaphysical outlook similar to that of Andrei Tarkovsky.

At this time, Andrei Makarevich writes one of the band's most enduring and popular songs: " Poka gorit svecha " (" As long as the candle burns "), as a statement of his not giving up.

United were also without players like Paul Parker, Ryan Giggs and Andrei Kanchelskis for long periods of time due to injury.

Not long after, Andrei became the first Master of Sports and then International Master of Sports.

Peasants puzzled Andrei.

It had sounded good to Andrei, but he did not believe it.

Before he went into battle Andrei had told Alex, `` I only want to be a Pole.

And now Andrei sat on a train on the way to Lublin and wondered if he was not being punished for his lack of belief.

Of all the places in Poland, Andrei hated Lublin the most.

Andrei stopped at Litowski Place and looked around quickly at the boundary of civil buildings.

Andrei glanced up over the top of the paper and looked into the mustached, homely face of Sergeant Styka.

To him, Andrei Androfski had always been the living symbol of a Polish officer.

`` Remember to call me Jan '', Andrei said.

Andrei asked.

Andrei smiled.

The question frightened Andrei.

Andrei demanded.

Andrei shrugged.

Andrei peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes.

Andrei and Styka were silent.

* 1899 – Andrei Platonov, Russian author ( d. 1951 )

Among these have been many writers, artists and musicians ; these include Pulitzer Prize-winning and Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, Andrei Bely, Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laureates Selma Lagerlöf and Albert Schweitzer, Andrei Tarkovsky, Bruno Walter, and Right Livelihood Award winner Ibrahim Abouleish.

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 1970 he, along with Valery Chalidze and Andrei Tverdokhlebov, was one of the founders of the Committee on Human Rights in the USSR and came under increasing pressure from the government.

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