| Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov | |
| Native Name: | Андрей Николаевич Сахаров |
| Native Name Lang: | Russian |
| Birth Date: | 2 June 1930 |
| Birth Place: | Kulebaki, Nizhny Novgorod Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR |
| Death Place: | Moscow, Russia |
| Citizenship: | Soviet Union → Russia |
| Nationality: | Russian |
| Field: | History, historiography |
| Workplaces: | |
| Alma Mater: | MSU Faculty of History |
| Prizes: | Order of the Badge of Honour, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (4th class), Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, Honoured Cultural Worker of the RSFSR, Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Honour |
| Spouse: | Olga Sakharova |
Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Сахаров; 2 June 1930,[1] – 26 June 2019)[2] was an anti-Normanist Russian historian.
Sakharov was born in Kulebaki. In 1993, he was appointed Director of the Russian History Institute, affiliated with the Academy of Sciences. He initiated a campaign to purge the institute of his Normanist opponents.[3] It came under much criticism, forcing Sakharov into retirement in 2010.
Sakharov was an active member of the Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests that existed between 2009 and 2012.[4]
His major monographs include The Diplomacy of Ancient Rus (1980) and its sequel, The Diplomacy of Svyatoslav (1982). For his studies of early medieval diplomacy Sakharov was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991).[5]