Editing Andrei Sakharov (section)

===Death===
[[File:People gathered at the grave of Andrei Sakharov, 1990.jpg|thumb|right|Sakharov's grave, January 1990]]
Soon after 9 p.m. on 14 December 1989, Sakharov went to his study to take a nap before preparing an important speech he was to deliver the next day in the Congress. His wife went to wake him at 11 p.m. as he had requested but she found Sakharov dead on the floor. According to the notes of Yakov Rapoport, a senior pathologist present at the autopsy, it is most likely that Sakharov died of an [[heart arrhythmia|arrhythmia]] consequent to [[dilated cardiomyopathy]] at the age of 68.<ref>{{cite book |last=Coleman |first=Fred |title=The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Forty Years That Shook the World, from Stalin to Yeltsin |page=116 |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's |year=1997}}</ref> He was interred in the Vostryakovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.