Soviet communist. Leading figure in the Soviet nuclear projects of the 1940s and 1950s. A protege of Lavrenti Beria, he survived the purge after the death of Joseph Stalin because of a long friendship with Nikita Khrushchev which dated back to the 1920s. He died of a heart attack.
Soviet communist. Leading figure in the Soviet nuclear projects of the 1940s and 1950s. A protege of Lavrenti Beria, he survived the purge after the death of Joseph Stalin because of a long friendship with Nikita Khrushchev which dated back to the 1920s. He died of a heart attack.
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