RIA Novosti informs about this with reference to the press service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

“Gerasim Matveyevich Eliashberg passed away on Friday,” the press service said.

Earlier it was reported that the last of the direct participants in the development and creation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, the oldest academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Isaak Khalatnikov, died at the 102nd year of his life.