Andrei D Sakharov Journal

Andrei D Sakharov Journal Dedicated to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and famous physicist Dr Andrei D Sakharov.

ADS Journal is an online resource dedicated to life, science and public activity of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and famous physicist Dr Andrei D Sakharov.

Andrei Sakharov (right) with wife Elena Bonner enjoying breakfast with their long-time friends Ed and Jill Kline. Castel...
26/12/2025

Andrei Sakharov (right) with wife Elena Bonner enjoying breakfast with their long-time friends Ed and Jill Kline.

Castello, France, Summer 1989.

Photo credit: Dr Andy Blane

Elena Bonner shows Andrei Sakharov's Nobel Peace Prize diploma during the Nobel ceremony.Oslo, Norway. December 10, 1975...
29/11/2025

Elena Bonner shows Andrei Sakharov's Nobel Peace Prize diploma during the Nobel ceremony.

Oslo, Norway. December 10, 1975
Credit: Tatiana Bonner Yankelevich's archive

Andrei Sakharov travelling by metro in Moscow. October 1989.Credit: Andrei Sakharov Archive
26/11/2025

Andrei Sakharov travelling by metro in Moscow. October 1989.

Credit: Andrei Sakharov Archive

Andrei Sakharov's wife, Klavdia Sakharova (19.11.1919 -- 08.03.1969), who was born on this day 106 years ago, with her y...
19/11/2025

Andrei Sakharov's wife, Klavdia Sakharova (19.11.1919 -- 08.03.1969), who was born on this day 106 years ago, with her youngest child, Dmitry.

Moscow, 1962.
Photo credit: Andrei Sakharov
Credit: Sakharov family archive

Andrei Sakharov with his mother, Ekaterina Sakharova, Summer 1923. Likely, at the rented summer house outside Moscow.Cre...
09/10/2025

Andrei Sakharov with his mother, Ekaterina Sakharova, Summer 1923. Likely, at the rented summer house outside Moscow.

Credit: Sakharov family archive

Andrei Sakharov. Moscow, 1927."Papa made me a physicist, otherwise God knows where I would have ended up," Sakharov wrot...
03/10/2025

Andrei Sakharov. Moscow, 1927.

"Papa made me a physicist, otherwise God knows where I would have ended up," Sakharov wrote in his Memoirs.

An unusually dark and shadowy shot, this photograph might have been taken by Sakharov's father, a physics professor Dmitry Ivanovich Sakharov, during demonstrations of simple physics experiments that he often organized at home for little Andrei and his cousins.

Photo credit: Dmitry I. Sakharov
Credit: Andrei Sakharov Archive

Andrei Sakharov at the Congress of People's Deputies. Moscow, June 1989.Sakharov's speech -- and the reaction of the hug...
29/09/2025

Andrei Sakharov at the Congress of People's Deputies. Moscow, June 1989.

Sakharov's speech -- and the reaction of the huge audience at the Palace of Congresses -- while polarizing, glued millions of Soviet citizens to their TV screens.

Ivan Nikolaevich Sakharov (1860 - 1918), Andrei Sakharov's grandfather. Moscow, mid-1890s.Born in the Nizhny Novgorod ar...
26/09/2025

Ivan Nikolaevich Sakharov (1860 - 1918), Andrei Sakharov's grandfather. Moscow, mid-1890s.

Born in the Nizhny Novgorod area in 1860 in a family of a Russian Orthodox high-ranking clergy, Ivan Sakharov became a well-known liberal lawyer with a practice in Moscow. His writings influenced Andrei Sakharov, especially, on the issues of capital punishment and social justice. Ivan Sakharov fell ill and died in Kharkiv in 1918, aged 58.

Eleven-year old Andrei Sakharov on his scooter on a street in central Moscow. 1932. Photo credit: professor Dmitry I Sak...
21/08/2025

Eleven-year old Andrei Sakharov on his scooter on a street in central Moscow. 1932.

Photo credit: professor Dmitry I Sakhakov
Credit: Andrei Sakharov Archive

Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner at home in Moscow in 1973.
14/08/2025

Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner at home in Moscow in 1973.

Andrei Sakharov's dacha west of Moscow, in a Russian Academy of Sciences' country settlement 'Zhukovka'. In 1956, the US...
20/07/2025

Andrei Sakharov's dacha west of Moscow, in a Russian Academy of Sciences' country settlement 'Zhukovka'.

In 1956, the USSR government gifted dachas in this location to a group of top scientists who had worked on the Soviet Atomic Project. Sakharov's dacha was identical to the one of his scientific advisor Igor Tamm. Yuli Khariton, Science director at Arzamas-16, Yakov Zel'dovich, one of Sakharov's close friends, and Kirill Shchyolkin were among other famous physicists who received dachas there. With the exception of the Nobel laureate Igor Tamm, who succeeded in switching back to fundamental research quickly and received just one golden star of the Hero of the Socialist Labor, all other scientists on the list were among the very unique group of "thrice Heroes". Sakharov would be stripped of his awards in 1980 for protesting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

In the midst of this exceptional scientific community there were two dachas of equally exceptional musicians: Dmitry Shostakovich and Mstislav Rostropovich.

Tatiana Yankelevich, Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner in Newton, Massachusetts. During a part of their visit to the US, ...
29/06/2025

Tatiana Yankelevich, Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner in Newton, Massachusetts. During a part of their visit to the US, they stayed at Elena's daughter Tatiana' house in Newton (greater Boston area) to enjoy family time. Summer 1989.

Tatiana Yankelevich remembers: it was the summer when AD [Andrei Dmitrievich] was getting up early to work on the second part of his memoirs "Moscow and beyond" (In Russian: Горький, Москва, далее везде) and, of course, his draft of Constitution for the future Russia.

Credit: Andrei Sakharov Archive

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