This is reported by the information agency "Nizhny Novgorod".
“Andrei Viktorovich Gaponov-Grekhov played a huge role in the development of domestic science.
He was not only an outstanding scientist, but also a brilliant organizer.
He was known and respected as a talented scientist, passionate about his work, a great professional, selflessly devoted to science, whose contribution to the development of applied physics is difficult to overestimate,” said Gleb Nikitin, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
The head of the region called Gaponov-Grekhov "a world-class personality, an extremely efficient and purposeful person."
In August last year, a Soviet and Russian physicist, one of the leading developers of thermonuclear weapons in the USSR, Yuri Trutnev, passed away in the Nizhny Novgorod region, he was 93 years old.