Yuri Trutnev (scientist)

Yuri Trutnev (scientist).

Yuri Alexeyevich Trutnev (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Тру́тнев) (born November 2, 1927, Moscow) is a Soviet/Russian physicist, member of the Russian Academy of Science, Doctor of Technical Sciences, and Hero of Socialist Labor (1962). He was a co-developer of the AN602 hydrogen bomb, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Its October 30, 1961 test remains the most powerful artificial explosion in human history, some 50 megatons, Tsar Bomb. Since the 1990s he has been the Director of the VNIIEF Russian Nuclear Labs, located at the Nizhni-Novgorod Oblast, Sarov.

Sarov was formerly a secret city, Arzamas 16, a manufacturing and assembling concern of Russian nuclear weapons for the Russian Army and Navy, headed for the 45 years ending in 1991 by Yuly Khariton, aged 92 at that date, who had formerly worked under Igor Kurchatov, the head of the Russian atomic energy authority since the early 1940s. There, General Pavel M. Zernov represented the Army Directorship between 1846 and 1951.He was atthe time Hero of Socialist Labor (twice), Lenin Prize and USSR State Prizes.

On the other hand , much later, after Khariton retirement, Rady I. Ilkaev was First Deputy Scientific Director RFNC-VNIIEF in 1993 - 1996, RFNC-VNIIEF Director - First Deputy Scientific Director RFNC-VNIIEF in 1993 - 1996, Scientific Director RFNC-VNIIEF since 2008. He was a Full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, USSR and RF State Prizes, the State Prize of the Russian Federation named after WWII marshal of the USSR Georgy Zhukov and the Prize of the Government of RF, Distinguished Sceintist of RF.

Both, Yuli Khariton and nuclear weapons designer at Sarov and advocate of civil liberties and civil reforms in the Soviet Union, winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1975, Moscow-born Andrei Sakharov, deceased at Sarov in December 1989, shared many times and over many years professional interests with Yuri Alexeyeveich Trutnev there. The Sakharov Prize, awarded annually by the European Parliament for people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms, is named after Sakharov.

Meantime, Yuri Trutnev has had responsibilities and meetings with his political counterparts in the US nuclear weapons establishment at Los Alamos, LANL, and LLNL.

References

• http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/23272/Hecker_sciencediplomacy_physicstoday.pdf
• https://library.villanova.edu/Find/Summon/Search?type=Author&lookfor=Ilkaev%2C%20R
• http://www.apcss.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Siegfried-Hecker.pdf

This article includes content derived from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978, which is partially in the public domain.