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In accordance with their long-​established tradition, the Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonics held a two-​week 16th arts festival, in honor of Andrei Sakharov’s 100th birthday.

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Maestro Vladimir Spivakov and his orchestra held a gala concert at the Moscow House of Music on the 21st of May 2021. “This concert is our offering and our tribute to the remarkable man,” said Spivakov before the concert.

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On the day of Sakharov’s centennial on the 21st of May 2021, the APS held panel discussions as a tribute to Sakharov’s scientific and humanitarian achievements.

Notable speakers include renown scientists Roald Sagdeev, Dmitry Ryutov, [insert others].

Friends and family of Sakharov, including Tatiana Bonner Yankelevich, Marina Sakharov-​Liberman, and Boris Altshuler, spoke at one of the panels.

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 The Andrei Sakharov Research Center for Democratic Development at the Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, held Tenth International Sakharov Conference. The title of the conference, “Celebrating Sakharov 1921-​2021 – Are Peace, Progress and Human Rights Indivisible?” referred to Sakharov’s Nobel lecture. Among the speakers are the granddaughter of Sakharov – Marina Sakharov-​Liberman and his step-​daughter Tatiana Yankelevich; the Chairman of the Board of the Sakharov Center in Moscow Vyacheslav Bakhmin; the former Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe Nils Muiznieks; and the well-​known scholars Mike Morgan (USA) and Timothy Garton Ash (UK).

Sakharov Center Moscow, with support from the ASF and its members, including Cathy Fitzpatrick, launched the virtual museum of Andrei Sakharov:

www.sakharov.space

Sakharov.space is a virtual museum of Andrei Sakharov, dedicated to the centenary of the great scientist and human rights activist. The design of the museum resembles a pyramid: a visitor can watch a 7-​minute video about Sakharov’s personality, or dive into a 30-​minute animated timeline about his life.

For the website, we created a 3D imagery of Sakharov and implemented it using WebGL technology. The archive images helped us make the features of the 3D model similar to real Sakharov ones. Then we animated it recreating the atmosphere of an old movie.

9 chapters, hundreds of photos, rare archival documents and shots: we have combined all these into a beautiful story, united by visual metaphors. For the first time, E. G. Bonner’s speech at the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Sakharov will be available on the Internet.

The website is adaptive and is fully available on all mobile devices.

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 To mark Andrei Sakharov’s centennial, a postal stamp and three envelopes with Sakharov’s images were released. The stamp is based on the photograph taken in 1988 by Sherstyannikov.

 A new collectable silver coin weighs 15.5g. The design is based on the famous portrait of Andrei Sakharov by Yuzef Karsh. The design includes Sakharov’s years of life (1921-​1989) and a facsimile of his signature.

The Organizing Committee for celebrating Sakharov’s centennial secured grants for production of those two documentaries:

• “Sakharov asks to speak” (Director: Grigory Kurdyaev) [insert a teaser]
• “Andrei Sakharov. Outside the window” (Director: Dmitry Zavilgelsky. Script: Boris Altshuler)

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 SIPRI’s 2019 Yearbook was dedicated to Andrei Sakharov. SIPRI Yearbook is an authoritative and independent source on armament, disarmament and politics.

Academician Alexey Arbatov (Center of International Security at IMEMO), Roald Sagdeev (University of Maryland), President of RAN Alexander Sergeev, Senator Vladimir Lukin and Vice President of the ASF Marina Sakharov-​Liberman, among others, took part in the sessions.

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The Organizing Committee for celebrating Andrei Sakharov’s centennial lists diverse events, dedicated to the famous scientist and dissident. Members of the Organizing Committee, which included representatives from the Sakharov Center in Moscow and the ASF, take an active role in preparing many of these events.

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