Located on the Volga-river city of Ulyanovsk (a birthplace of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state), a local museum, mostly dedicated to Lenin, talks about its citizens fighting the Nazis during the Second world war. Sakharov, a freshly minted holder of an undergraduate physics degree, was dispatched to Ulyanovsk in the summer of 1942.
His work at Ulyanovsk Munitions Factory revealed his engineering acumen coupled with scientific genius. A 21-year old aspiring scientist then received his first patent for a novel method of testing the shells’ quality. In July 1943, Andrei Sakharov married Klavdia, a chemistry major who worked at the same factory, remaining in Ulyanovsk till January 1945. A house of his father-in-law bears a memorial plague in honor of Sakharov, while the museum’s exhibit proudly lists Sakharov’s scientific endeavours.
The recent exhibition including showpices connected with Andrei Sakharov is open until September 5:
https://73online.ru/r/o_saharove_na_volodarke_rasskazyvayut_na_vystavke_ulyanovskiy_tyl_frontu-149746
In July 1943, Andrei Sakharov and Klavdia Vikhireva got married, beginning their married life in a small house, belonging to Klavdia’s father, Alexey Vikhirev. Back then, the house was located in Zavolzhyie District of Ulyanovsk. Today, the house is at a different, more central location of the city: in the late 1950s Alexey had to take it apart and put together in a new place again as Zavolzhyie was to be flooded in the process of a hydropower plant’s construction.
The house is on the photos.
