Yevgeny Adamov

Yevgeny Olegovich Adamov is a Soviet and Russian nuclear engineer and politician, born in Moscow on 28 April 1939. After graduating from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1962 in mechanical engineering he joined the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, where he worked until 1986. He then directed NIKIET, the N. A. Dollezhal Research and Development Institute of Power Engineering, from 1986 to 1998, and served as Russia's Minister for Atomic Energy from 1998 to 2001 and as a member of the Security Council. His honours include the Order of the Badge of Honour and the State Prize of the Russian Federation in science and technology. In 2008 a Russian court convicted him of abuse of office and fraud over United States aid funds meant for nuclear security upgrades, and the sentence was later suspended. He is included as a leader of the Russian nuclear power design and administration system.