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Andrei Sakharov (Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov) was born on 21 May, 1921 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR, is an actor. Discover Andrei Sakharov's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

Popular As Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
Occupation actor
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 21 May, 1921
Birthday 21 May
Birthplace Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Date of death 14 December, 1989
Died Place Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Nationality USSR

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Who Is Andrei Sakharov's Wife?

His wife is Yelena Bonner (January 1972 - 14 December 1989) ( his death), Klavdia Alekseyevna Vikhireva (1943 - 1969) ( her death) ( 3 children)

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Wife Yelena Bonner (January 1972 - 14 December 1989) ( his death), Klavdia Alekseyevna Vikhireva (1943 - 1969) ( her death) ( 3 children)
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Andrei Sakharov Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Andrei Sakharov worth at the age of 68 years old? Andrei Sakharov’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from USSR. We have estimated Andrei Sakharov's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

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1921

Andrey Dmitrievich Sakharov was born on May 21, 1921, in Moscow. His father, named Dmitri Ivanovich Sakharov, was a distinguished scientist, a writer of science, and a pedagogy. He also had a hobby of playing piano for silent films and at home. His mother, named Ekaterina Alekseevna was the daughter of a distinguished General, Aleksey Sophiano, who was a Greek-Russian aristocrat in Moscow. Young Andrey Sakharov was a voracious reader. He graduated from high school with excellence.

1938

From 1938, Sakharov studied physics at Moscow State University.

1942

He graduated 'cum laude' in 1942, while the university was evacuated in Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan during WWII. Sakharov made a number of inventions for the Soviet military industry during the Second World War. He earned his Ph. D.

1947

in 1947 and was included in the top-secret Soviet thermonuclear research group under Igor Tamm.

1949

In 1949-50 Sakharov became the co-inventor of the controlled hydrogen reaction. Today he is known as "the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. " He was secretly awarded the State Prize by Joseph Stalin, who had a personal meeting with Sakharov and Lavrenti Beria, the chief of NKVD/KGB. After giving the hydrogen bomb to Joseph Stalin Sakharov himself went through a dramatic moral transformation.

1952

He wrote in his 'Memoirs' that from 1952-1961 he grew to realization that his invention is extremely harmful in the hands of politicians, and it caused him a serious moral pain.

1953

In spite of being awarded in 1953, 1956, and 1962; as 'The Hero of Socialist Labor' Sakharov still ignored all the materialistic bribes from the Soviet government. A free thinker, Sakharov took the stand against the overpowering system he once used to be a part of.

1961

Sakharov rose to become a staunch opponent of the nuclear tests and made a political statement in 1961, causing anger from Nikita Khrushchev. During the Cuban missile crisis, Sakharov had a clear vision of the danger that his mighty invention may cause in the hands of undereducated career politicians, who exterminated millions of their own people.

1966

Sakharov raised his voice in 1966-1967 in defense of the political prisoners in the USSR; at a time when Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was terrorized by the KGB. Sakharov's integrity took him on a complicated political journey. As a conscientious scientist he made sincere statements in confrontations with the undereducated Nikita Khrushchev.

1968

In 1968 he published his essay on 'Peaceful Co-existence and Intellectual Freedom', and was immediately cut off from the privileged food supplies; which he was entitled to as a top scientist.

1969

In 1969 he donated all his life savings to the Red Cross in Moscow.

1970

In 1970 he co-founded the Committee for Human Rights.

1972

In 1972, he married Yelena Bonner, also a co-founder.

1975

Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace (1975), but was not allowed to go to Norway to accept it.

1979

In 1979 he opposed the Soviet invasion of Afghahistan.

1980

He also joined the boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games in 1980. Sakharov wrote an open letter to Leonid Brezhnev, declaring that "Wars must stop during the Olympics. According to the tradition, the Soviet Union must remove the troops out of Afghanistan. Olympics cannot be in the country, which is at war. " Soviet government retaliated immediately by canceling all his state awards, honors, and privileges.

The totalitarian regime tried to break him by making his life miserable in exile at the sealed and controlled city of Gorky (now Nizhni Novgorod) from 1980-1986. There Sakharov lived in a small flat on the ground floor of a building, filled with his KGB opponents, who performed 24/7 surveillance of his life. Sakharov's case illustrated how Soviet dictatorship focused on victimization of the best, in order to control the rest.

1986

In December of 1986, Mikhail Gorbachev personally contacted Sakharov in his exile. Gorbachev ordered that the KGB should release Sakharov and return him to Moscow. Back in Moscow Sakharov continued his work as a humanitarian.

1989

A few months before his death, he was elected as a representative of the Academy of Sciences to the Supreme Soviet in 1989.