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Encyclopedia > Anatoli Alexandrov

Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov (1903 - 1994) was a Russian engineer. He served as the president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1975 until 1986.


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Alexandrov (1157 words)
Initially Alexandrov received a private musical education by his mother, a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory.
From 1908 Taneyev instructed Alexandrov in counterpoint and composition.
Alexandrov was influenced by Scriabion, Medtner and Rachmaninov.
The Moscow News (922 words)
Anatoly Alexandrov, whose 100th anniversary we mark on February 13, belonged to this galaxy, was the father of the Soviet Union's atomic energy program and, for better or for worse, rose to the top of the scientific bureaucracy.
Anatoly Alexandrov was born in Tarashchi, Kiev Province, in 1903 to the family of a school teacher.
It is believed that Alexandrov's mistake was not in the design of the reactor, but in his failure to explain in clear enough terms to those who worked at the atomic power plant that they were confronted by an extremely dangerous enterprise, the operation of which warranted the greatest caution and did not tolerate experiments.
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