Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov

Soviet and Russian physicist and academician

Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov (Russian: ???????? ???????? ???????????, 13 February 1903–3 February 1994), also known as A.P.Alexandrov, k.N., was a Russian physicist who played a crucial and centralizing role in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons.

During his lifetime, Alexandrov was recipient of many honors, civil citations, and state awards for this work and was also the director of the Kurchatov Institute and the President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1975 until 1986.