Andrei Sakharov - Legacy and Remembrance

Legacy and Remembrance

Places

• In Moscow, there is Academician Sakharov Avenue, Sakharov Museum, and Sakharov Center.
• During the 1980s, the block of 16th Street NW between L and M streets, in front of the Soviet embassy, in Washington, D.C. was renamed "Andrei Sakharov Place" as a form of protest against his 1980 arrest and detention.
• In Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, Sakharov Square, located in the heart of the city, is named after him.
• The Sakharov Gardens (est. 1990) are located at the entrance to Jerusalem, Israel, off the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv Highway. There is also a street named after him in Rishon LeZion.
• In Nizhny Novgorod, there is a Sakharov Museum in the apartment on the first floor of the 12-storeyed house where the Sakharov family lived for seven years.
• In St. Petersburg, his monument stands in Sakharov Square, and there is a Sakharov Park.
• In 1979, an asteroid —1979 Sakharov—was named after him.
• A public square in Vilnius in front of the Press House is named after Sakharov. The square was named on March 16, 1991, as the Press House was still occupied by the Soviet Army.
• Andreij-Sacharow-Platz in downtown Nuremberg is named in honor of Sakharov.
• In Belarus International Sakharov Environmental University was named after him.
• Intersection of Ventura blvd and Laurel Canyon blvd in Studio City, Los Angeles is named Andrei Sakharov Square .
• The Andrej Sacharovweg is a street in Assen, Netherlands. There are also streets named in his honor in Amsterdam, Amstelveen, The Hague, Hellevoetsluis, Leiden, Purmerend, Rotterdam and Utrecht.
• Andreij-Sacharow-Platz in downtown Nuremberg is named in honor of Sakharov.
• Quai Andreï Sakharov in Tournai, Begium is named in honor of Sakharov.

In Media

• In the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, one of the Enterprise-D's Shuttlecraft is named after Sakharov, and is featured prominently in several episodes. This follows the Star Trek tradition of naming Shuttlecraft after prominent scientists, and particularly in The Next Generation, physicists.

• The fictitious interplanetary spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov from the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke is powered by a fictitious Sakharov drive. The novel was published in 1982, when A.D. Sakharov was in exile in Nizhny Novgorod.
• Italian painter Vinzela has dedicated his artwork "Saharov" to the great personality of human right activist.