Andrey Sakharov (historian)

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Nikolayevich and the family name is Sakharov.

Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov
Андрей Николаевич Сахаров
Sakharov in 2014
Born	(1930-06-02)2 June 1930 Kulebaki, Nizhny Novgorod Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died	26 June 2019(2019-06-26) (aged 89) Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Russian
Citizenship	Soviet Union → Russia
Alma mater	MSU Faculty of History
Spouse	Olga Sakharova
Awards	Order of the Badge of Honour, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (4th class), Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, Honoured Cultural Worker of the RSFSR, Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Honour
Scientific career
Fields	History, historiography
Institutions	Moscow State University Russian Academy of Sciences

Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Сахаров; 2 June 1930, – 26 June 2019) was an anti-Normanist Russian historian.

Career

Sakharov was born in Kulebaki. In 1993, he was appointed Director of the Russian History Institute, affiliated with the Academy of Sciences. He initiated a campaign to purge the institute of his Normanist opponents. It came under much criticism, forcing Sakharov into retirement in 2010.

Sakharov was an active member of the Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests that existed between 2009 and 2012.

Works

His major monographs include The Diplomacy of Ancient Rus (1980) and its sequel, The Diplomacy of Svyatoslav (1982). For his studies of early medieval diplomacy Sakharov was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991).

External links

• Andrey Sakharov at the RAS