What is Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov?
[[File:2014-SakharovAN.jpg|thumb|Sakharov in 2014]] '''Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov''' ({{lang-ru|Андрей Николаевич Сахаров}}; 2 June 1930<ref>[https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-samsung&tbm=bks&ei=LHEWXbFTpK-bBZqymbAH&q=Andrey+Nikolayevich+Sakharov+June+2%2C+1930&oq=Andrey+Nikolayevich+Sakharov+June+2%2C+1930&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.12...7778.7778.0.8453.1.1.0.0.0.0.287.287.2-1.1.0....0...1c.2.64.mobile-gws-serp..0.0.0....0.pCLEa5XxvBE Who's Who in Russia]</ref> – 26 June 2019) was a [[Soviet]]-[[Russia]]n historian. His best known works were the [[monograph]]s ''The Diplomacy of Ancient Rus'' (1980) and its sequel, ''The Diplomacy of Svyatoslav'' (1982). He was a member of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] (1991).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grani.ru/Society/History/m.151274.html|script-title=ru:Обратное провидение|date=19 May 2009|publisher=Grani.ru|language=ru|access-date=27 March 2011}}</ref> He was born in [[Kulebaki]], then [[Soviet Union]]. In 1993, Sakharov was appointed Director of the Russian History Institute, affiliated with the Academy of Sciences. He 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]] between 2009 and 2012.<ref>[http://polit.ru/article/2012/03/16/za_medinskogo/ По следам публикации. В защиту Мединского] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320204207/http://polit.ru/article/2012/03/16/za_medinskogo/ |date=2012-03-20 }} // polit.ru</ref> Sakharov died on 26 June 2019 in [[Moscow]] at the age of 89.<ref>[https://www.newsru.com/cinema/27jun2019/saharov.html Экс-директор Института российской истории РАН Андрей Сахаров умер на 90-м году жизни]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sakharov, Andrey}} [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Soviet writers]] [[Category:Russian historians]] {{bio-stub}}