Andrey Sakharov (historian)

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Andrey Sakharov
Андрей Сахаров
Sakharov in 2014
Born
Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov

(1930-06-02)2 June 1930
Kulebaki, Nizhny Novgorod Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died26 June 2019(2019-06-26) (aged 89)
Moscow, Russia
SpouseOlga Sakharova
AwardsOrder 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
Academic background
Alma materMoscow State University (Specialist, Candidate of Sciences, Doctor of Sciences)
ThesisThe Origins of Diplomacy in Ancient Rus’ (9th – First Half of the 10th Century) (1982)
Lev Cherepnin
Academic work
DisciplineHistory, historiography
InstitutionsMSU Faculty of History
Russian Academy of Sciences
Main interests
History of Russia, diplomatic history
Notable ideas
Anti-Normanism

Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Сахаров; 2 June 1930,[1] – 26 June 2019)[2] 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.[3] 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.[4]

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).[5]

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