The Rosatom Academy “Mayak” in Nizhny Novgorod will be named after Andrei Sakharov
The educational center of Rosatom Academy “Mayak” will be named after academician Sakharov The educational center of Rosatom Academy “Mayak” in Nizhny Novgorod will be named after academician Andrei Sakharov. The awarding ceremony will take place on World Science Day for Peace and Development on November 10, 2021 with the support of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom. The ceremony will be attended by Rosatom General Director Alexei Likhachev, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Sergeev and Andrei Sakharov's granddaughter Marina Sakharova-Lieberman. The assignment of the Andrei Sakharov Mayak Academy was personally agreed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. This was reported to “Lente.ru” in the press service of Rosatom. It is symbolic that the Mayak Academy, located right here – in the center of Nizhny Novgorod – at the spit where the Oka and Volga merge, will receive the name of a significant figure for national science and