Yevgeny Ivanovich Zababakhin , January 16, 1917, Moscow

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, USSR — December 27, 1984) was a Soviet physicist

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, one of the chief designers of nuclear weapon

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s in USSR, academician

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 of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Eng.

Military engineer

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 Lt. Gen. of Soviet Air Force

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. Lenin

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 and Stalin Prizes (1949, 1951 and 1953, Hero of Socialist Labor

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 (1953).

Worked at KB

OKB

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-11 (currently VNIIEF, Sarov

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, Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast).

Later worked as director of NII-1011 (currently, VNIITF, Chelyabinsk-70/Snezhinsk

Snezhinsk

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).

His name was awarded to RFYaTs-VNIITF and to a street in Snezhinsk.

In 1962 a group of csientists led by Zababakhin produced first detonation nanodiamond

Detonation nanodiamond

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s in VNIITF.

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• Personalities: Zababakhin Yevgeny Ivanovich (1917-1984) on Rosenergoatom
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