The A.D. Sakharov Museum is located in Nizhny Novgorod on Gagarin Avenue , 214 (micro-district Shcherbinki ).
| Memorial Apartment of Andrei Sakharov | |
|---|---|
The house that houses the museum | |
| Founding date | May 18, 1991 |
| opening date | from 9.00 to 17.00, except Friday |
| Location | |
| Address | Russia , Nizhny Novgorod , prosp. Gagarin, 214 |
| Site | museum.ru/M650 |
The museum opened in 1991 in an apartment on the first floor, where the scientist was serving 7 years of political exile ( 1980 - 1987 )
Excursions in the museum halls
The museum consists of two parts:
- Memorial exposure. The decor and interior of Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov’s apartment is being recreated, in which he spent seven years of exile under the supervision of the KGB .
- Exposition hall. Here you can find materials about the life and work of a scientist during his work at the Sarov Federal Nuclear Center , the film “Andrei Sakharov - Secret Years” is on display. Every year on December 14 , on the day of Sakharov’s memory, his death mask is displayed.
Museum's educational and cultural activities
For school students, the museum staff developed a cycle of thematic conversations and lectures on topics highlighting the creative path of A. D. Sakharov:
- "BUT. D. Sakharov - the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb "
- "Gorky Link"
- “To preserve the human in a person” - on the work of A. D. Sakharov “The World in Half a Century”, “The Sakharov Memorandum - a Memo on the Preservation of Life on Earth”.
In addition, the museum hosts:
- Scientific and practical conference "Sakharov Readings"
- The competition “I and my rights” to the Day of memory of A.D. Sakharov.
- The competition of theoretical and journalistic works "Free-thinking: its past, present, future."
See also
- Sakharov Center (Moscow)
Links
Literature
- Bulletin of freethinking. - N. Novgorod, 2006.
- Nizhny Novgorod: 785 questions and answers. - N. Novgorod: Quartz, 2007.