Yuri Trutnev

Physicist, Inventor

1927 –

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Who is Yuri Trutnev?

Yuri Alexeyevich Trutnev is a Soviet/Russian physicist, member of the Russian Academy of Science, Doctor of Technical Sciences, and Hero of Socialist Labor. He was a co-developer of the AN602 hydrogen bomb, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Its October 30, 1961 test remains the most powerful artificial explosion in human history, about 50 megatons, Tsar Bomb. Since the 1990s, he has been the Director of the VNIIEF Russian Nuclear Labs, located at the Nizhni-Novgorod Oblast, Sarov.

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Born
Nov 2, 1927
Moscow
Nationality
  • Soviet Union
  • Russia
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on July 23, 2013

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