Science

Andrei Sakharov

1921–1989Known worldwide

Andrei Sakharov

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  • Lived here

    Andrei Sakharov Apartment Building

    The physicist and dissident lived here after returning to Moscow from forced exile in Gorky.

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Nizhny Novgorod
Andrei Sakharov Museum Apartment — Sakharov spent almost seven years of internal exile in apartment No. 3 from 1980 until December 1986.
Vilnius
Eitan Finkelstein's Apartment Building — He stayed here during the 1975 Nobel ceremony while barred from travelling to Oslo.

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