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Andrei Sakharov: Moscow University
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In a silenced country, Andrei Sakharov was, for nearly two decades, the leading voice of democratic dissent. Living under constant surveillance, he did more than just speak out against the suppression of human rights. He appeared at the trials of dissidents, held press conferences in his apartment, and, after his forcible exile from Moscow, fought against the persecution of his own family with hunger strikes that may have hastened his death. In the end, he demonstrated, as almost no one else, the ability of an individual to withstand the pressure of a totalitarian regime.
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Andrei Sakharov was born into an intelligentsia family in Moscow in 1921. Following in the footsteps of his physicist father, he enrolled at the physics faculty of Moscow University in 1938. Exempted from military service in World War II, Sakharov graduated in 1942 and spent the war years as an engineer at a munitions factory. There he met and married Klavdia Vikhireva (1919 - 1969), a laboratory technician.
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Soon after 9:00 pm on December 14, 1989, Sakharov went to his study to take a nap before preparing an important speech he was to deliver the next day in the Congress. His wife went to wake him at 11:00 pm as he had requested but she found Sakharov dead on the floor. A sudden heart attack had taken his life at the age of 68.[12] He was interred in the Vostryakovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.
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"On May 21, 1994, the 73rd anniversary of Sakharov's birth, the The Sakharov Archives in Moscow was dedicated. The Archives are currently located in an apartment given to the Andrei Sakharov Foundation (Russia) by the Moscow City Council. The Archive contains thousand of documents pertaining to Sakharov's life and activities, as well as materials on the history of the human rights movement in the USSR.
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Thanks to the enthusiasm of the students and teaching staff, the help of the International Advisory Committee, numerous international organizations, separate universities and private individuals Sakharov College strengthened greatly its authority in the Republic of Belarus and abroad. Good teaching staff was formed, well-equipped laboratories appeared. Under these conditions in the academic 1994-1995 year the Academic Council decided to keep to a stable regime of study. Competitive enrolment for 100 persons among the applicants with secondary education was opened for the study on the full university program.
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Sakharov was proud that his advocacy played a role in the adoption of the 1963 Moscow Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water. Tests continued but were conducted underground.
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