Andrey Sakharov (historian)

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)
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)
Doctoral advisorLev Cherepnin
Academic work
DisciplineHistory, historiography
InstitutionsMSU Faculty of History
Russian Academy of Sciences
Main interestsHistory of Russia, diplomatic history
Notable ideasAnti-Normanism

Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Сахаров; 2 June 1930, – 26 June 2019) was an anti-Normanist Russian historian.