Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov Bronze Statue

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Russian: Андре́й Дми́триевич Са́харов, 21 May 1921 – 14 December 1989). A Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, Nobel laureate, and activist for disarmament, peace and human rights. Renowned as the designer of the Soviet Union's RDS-37, a codename for Soviet development of thermonuclear weapons. Sakharov later became an advocate of civil liberties and civil reforms in the Soviet Union, for which he faced state persecution; these efforts earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. In 2003 this bronze statue of the scientist by sculptor Levon Lazarev was unveiled, in the very heart of St. Petersburg's academic community. Source images taken by an uncredited photographer May 2009 in Ploshchad Akademika Sakharova (Academician Sakharov Square), St Petersburg, Russia.