Andrei Sakharov
1921–1989 · Person
Soviet physicist turned dissident; Nobel Peace laureate.
On these timelines: Russia & the USSR, People, Master, Cold War
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- Joseph Stalin (1878)
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- Catherine the Great (1729)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
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- Great Depression (1929)
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- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- Treaty of Versailles (1919)
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