Sakharov later described that " it took years " for him " to understand how much substitution, deceit, and lack of correspondence with reality there was " in the Soviet ideals.

* In Moscow, there is Academician Sakharov Avenue, Sakharov Museum, and Sakharov Center.

* In Nizhny Novgorod, there is a Sakharov Museum in the apartment on the first floor of the 12-storeyed house where the Sakharov family lived for seven years.

* In St. Petersburg, his monument stands in Sakharov Square, and there is a Sakharov Park.

The physicist and Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov was exiled there during 1980-1986 to limit his contacts with foreigners.

Andrei Sakharov described many details — as soon as the engines were fired, most of the personnel there ran to the perimeter but were trapped inside the security fence and then engulfed in the fireball of burning fuel.

While there, he questioned Gorbachev about the arrest, detention and exile to Gorki of Yelena Bonner and her husband, fellow Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov ( Peace, 1975 ).

The theory of baryogenesis was worked out by Andrei Sakharov in 1967, and requires a violation of the particle physics symmetry, called CP-symmetry, between matter and antimatter.

" While Sakharov strongly disagreed with Teller over nuclear testing in the atmosphere and Strategic Defense Initiative, he believed that American academics had been unfair to Teller ’ s resolve to get the H-bomb for the United States since " all steps by the Americans of a temporary or permanent rejection of developing thermonuclear weapons would have been seen either as a clever feint, or as the manifestation of stupidity.

Among others, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was named, but he refused to join and in his talk with Andrei Sakharov he motivated this decision by his opinion that it was not right to restrict the scope of the project to the Stalin era only, since the repressive era in Russia started as early as 1917.

He took a leading role in the foundation of the Sakharov Prize, awarded by the European Parliament since 1985.

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 ".

In 1989, he was awarded the annual Sakharov Prize in its second year of existence.

He trained many pianists, including Vladimir Ashkenazy ( winner of the second prize at the 1955 Chopin Competition ), Anatoly Dokumentov, Mikhail Voskresensky, Dmitri Sakharov, Alexander Bakhchiev, Andrei Egorov, Lev Natochenny, Boris Berman and Olga Kiun.

The Sakharov Prize, which is awarded annually by the European Parliament for people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms, is named in his honor.

* In Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, Sakharov Square, located in the heart of the city, is named after him.

* A public square in Vilnius in front of the Press House is named after Sakharov.

* Andreij-Sacharow-Platz in downtown Nuremberg is named in honor of Sakharov.

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

* Andreij-Sacharow-Platz in downtown Nuremberg is named in honor of Sakharov.

* Quai Andreï Sakharov in Tournai, Begium is named in honor of Sakharov.

* In the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, one of the Enterprise-D's Shuttlecraft is named after Sakharov, and is featured prominently in several episodes.

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

After this essay was circulated in samizdat and then published outside the Soviet Union ( initially on July 6, 1968, in the Dutch newspaper Het Parool through intermediary of the Dutch academic and writer Karel van het Reve, followed by The New York Times ), Sakharov was banned from all military-related research and returned to FIAN to study fundamental theoretical physics.

( Contains an introduction by Archimandrite Sophrony ( Sakharov ), immediate disciple of St Silouan, together with the meditations of St Silouan ( 1866 – 1938 ).

* Induced gravity ( 1967 ), a proposal by Andrei Sakharov according to which general relativity might arise from quantum field theories of matter

Notable Russian scientists include Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Andrei Kolmogorov, Ivan Pavlov, Nikolai Semyonov, Dmitri Ivanenko, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Alexander Lodygin, Alexander Popov ( one of inventors of radio ), Nikolai Zhukovsky, Alexander Prokhorov and Nikolay Basov ( co-inventors of laser ), Georgiy Gamov, Vladimir Zworykin, Lev Pontryagin, Sergei Sobolev, Pavel Yablochkov, Aleksandr Butlerov, Andrei Sakharov, Dmitry Ivanovsky, Sergey Korolyov and Mstislav Keldysh ( creators of the Soviet space program ), Aleksandr Lyapunov, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Andrei Tupolev, Yuri Denisyuk ( the first practicable method of holography ), Mikhail Lomonosov, Vladimir Vernadsky, Pyotr Kapitsa, Igor Sikorsky, Ludvig Faddeev, Zhores Alferov, Konstantin Novoselov, Fyodor Shcherbatskoy, Nikolai Trubetzkoy etc.

* More on Sakharov ( and some photographs of Sarov ), from the Center for History of Physics

* December 14 – Andrei Sakharov ( born 1921 ), nuclear physicist.

* Sakharov ( film ), a 1984 TV film starring Jason Robards as Andrei Sakharov

* Aleksandr Andreyevich Sakharov ( 1865-1942 ), Russian esperantist

* Andrei Sakharov ( 1921 – 1989 ), Soviet physicist and dissident

* Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov ( born 1930 ), Russian historian

* Anton Sakharov ( born 1982 ), Russian footballer

* Nikita Sakharov ( 1915-1945 ), Soviet Evenk writer

* Vladimir Sakharov ( born 1948 ), former Soviet footballer

* Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov ( 1853-1920 ), Russian General who served in the Russian Imperial Army.

* Yuri Sakharov ( 1922 – 1981 ), Ukrainian chess master

Yelena Bonner ( left ), Andrei Sakharov and Sofiya Kalistratova in Moscow, 1977

Zizioulas has also been significantly influenced by the ascetical theology of Archimandrite Sophrony ( Sakharov ), founder of the Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist in Essex, England.

* Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov ( vacuum fluctuations ),