The purpose of this collaborative project is to identify, preserve, and make accessible to the public materials related to the work of Andrei Sakharov that still exist in Soviet-era repositories. We believe our project is extremely timely. The recent publication of hitherto unknown documents written by Sakharov during his years at VNIIEF in Sarov, Russia (called Arzamas-16 during the Soviet era) indicates that this previously high-security scientific institution is now ready to half-open its archives to the public. In collaboration with the Andrei Sakharov Archives in Moscow, the Brandeis University Andrei Sakharov Archives proposes to locate additional materials authored by Sakharov still housed at VNIIEF, to preserve these materials, and to make them accessible to a wide audience either through publication or digitization.
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Alexander Gribanov, of Brandeis University, was a 2002-03 Short-Term Travel Grants [8] fellow.
