Editing Andrei Sakharov (section)

== Legacy and remembrance ==
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=== Places ===
[[File:Andrei Sakharov-IMG 0887-raffi kojian.JPG|thumb|A statue of Andrei Sakharov in [[Yerevan]], [[Armenia]]]]
[[File:A portrait Andrey Sakharov by Dmitry Vrubel, as restored in July 2009.jpg|thumb|"Thank you Andrei Sakharov" mural on the [[Berlin Wall]]]]
[[File:1991 CPA 6322.jpg|thumb|upright|Andrei Sakharov on ''Soviet Nobel Peace Prize winners'', the USSR stamp issued on 14 May 1991]]

* A public [[Sakharov Center]] operated in Moscow until 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-18 |title=Мосгорсуд ликвидировал Сахаровский центр |url=https://www.rbc.ru/politics/18/08/2023/64df53589a7947d659540a6b |access-date=2024-07-30 |website=РБК |language=ru}}</ref>
* During the 1980s, the block of 16th Street NW between L and M streets, in front of the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. (which later became the [[Russian ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C.|Russian ambassador's residence]]) was renamed "Andrei Sakharov Plaza" as a form of protest against his 1980 arrest and detention.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19840827&id=Zm0xAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xAIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4988,5711419 Washington's Sakharov Plaza: A Message to Russia], [[Toledo Blade]], 27 August 1984. Retrieved May 2013</ref>
* In [[Yerevan]], the capital of [[Armenia]], Sakharov Square, located in the heart of the city, is named after him.
* The [[Sakharov Gardens]] (est. 1990) are located at the entrance to [[Jerusalem]], Israel, off the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv Highway.<ref>{{in lang|ru}}. [http://www.sakharov-center.ru/museum/exhibitionhall/sadi-s.htm Photo exhibition "Sakharov Gardens"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927000719/http://www.sakharov-center.ru/museum/exhibitionhall/sadi-s.htm |date=September 27, 2007 }} (sakharov-center.ru)</ref> There is also a street named after him in [[Haifa]], near the [[Haifa Hof HaCarmel train station]].
* In [[Nizhny Novgorod]], there is a Sakharov Museum in the apartment on the first floor of the 12-storeyed house where the Sakharov family lived for seven years; in 2014 his monument was erected near the house.
* In [[Saint Petersburg]], his monument stands in Sakharov Square, and there is a Sakharov Park.
* In 1979, an [[asteroid]], [[1979 Sakharov]], was named after him.
* A public square in [[Vilnius]] in front of the Press House is named after Sakharov. The square was named on 16 March 1991, as the Press House was still [[January Events|occupied by the Soviet Army]].
* Andreja Saharova iela in the district of [[Pļavnieki]] in [[Riga]], Latvia, is named after Sakharov.
* Andreij-Sacharow-Platz in downtown [[Nuremberg]] is named in honour of Sakharov.
* In Belarus, [[International Sakharov Environmental University]] was named after him.
* Intersection of Ventura Blvd and Laurel Canyon Blvd in [[Studio City, Los Angeles]], is named Andrei Sakharov Square.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sakharov Junction |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-22-me-91-story.html |access-date=September 14, 2010 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 22, 1991 |author=Aaron Curtiss |location=Los Angeles |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102103156/http://articles.latimes.com/1991-11-22/local/me-91_1_andrei-sakharov |archive-date=November 2, 2012 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>
* In [[Arnhem]], the bridge over the [[Nederrijn]] is called the Andrej Sacharovbrug.
* The Andrej Sacharovweg is a street in [[Assen]], Netherlands. There are also streets named in his honour in other places in the Netherlands such as [[Amsterdam]], [[Amstelveen]], [[The Hague]], [[Hellevoetsluis]], [[Leiden]], [[Purmerend]], [[Rotterdam]], [[Utrecht]] 
* A street in [[Copenhagen]], Denmark.
* Quai Andreï Sakharov in [[Tournai]], Belgium, is named in honour of Sakharov.
* In Poland, streets named in his honour in [[Warsaw]], [[Łódź]] and [[Kraków]].
* Andreï Sakharov Boulevard in the district of [[Mladost, Sofia|Mladost]] in [[Sofia]], [[Bulgaria]], is named after him.
* In New York City, a street sign at the southwest corner of Third Avenue and 67th Street in Manhattan reads ''Sakharov-Bonner Corner'', in honor of Sakharov and his wife, [[Yelena Bonner]]. The corner is just down the block from the Soviet Mission to the United Nations (which later became the Russian mission) and was the scene of repeated anti-Soviet demonstrations.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Anderson, Susan |author2=Bird, David |title=New York day by day; human rights reminder posted near Soviet mission|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/10/nyregion/new-york-day-by-day-human-rights-reminder-posted-near-soviet-mission.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=10 August 1984}}</ref>
* In Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, there is Academician Andrei Sakharov street.

=== Media ===
* In the 1984 made-for-TV film ''Sakharov'' starring [[Jason Robards]].
* In the television series ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', one of the [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)|''Enterprise''-D]]'s [[Shuttlecraft (Star Trek)|Shuttlecraft]] is named after Sakharov, and is featured prominently in several episodes. This follows the ''[[Star Trek]]'' tradition of naming Shuttlecraft after prominent scientists, and particularly in ''The Next Generation'', physicists.
* The fictitious interplanetary spacecraft ''[[Leonov (fictional spacecraft)|Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov]]'' from the novel ''[[2010: Odyssey Two]]'' by [[Arthur C. Clarke]] is powered by a "Sakharov drive". The novel was published in 1982, when Sakharov was in exile in [[Nizhny Novgorod]], and was dedicated both to Sakharov and to [[Alexei Leonov]].
* Russian singer [[Alexander Gradsky]] wrote and performed the song "Памяти А. Д. Сахарова" ("In memory of Andrei Sakharov"), which features on his ''Live In "Russia" 2 (Живем в "России" 2)'' CD.<ref>{{cite web|title=Alexander Gradsky official website|url=http://www.gradsky.com/txt/038.shtml|access-date=3 February 2013|language=ru}}</ref>
* The faction leader of the Ecologists in the PC game [[S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl]] and [[S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky|its prequel]] is a scientist named Professor Sakharov.