Yevgeny Adamov
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Family name hatnote Template:Infobox officeholder Yevgeny Olegovich Adamov (Template:Langx, born 28 April 1939) is a Soviet and Russian nuclear engineer and politician. He was the director of the N. A. Dollezhal Research and Development Institute of Power Engineering (NIKIET) from 1986 to 1998. He served as the Minister for Atomic Energy of Russia from 1998 to 2001, member of the Security Council of Russia from 1998 to 2000, and adviser to the Prime Minister of Russia from 2002 to 2004.
In 2008 he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for abuse of office and fraud, which was reduced to four years of probation on appeal.
Biography
Yevgeny Adamov was born on 28 April 1939 in Moscow. After graduating in 1962 from the Moscow Aviation Institute with a major in mechanical engineering, he joined the I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy and worked there until 1986.<ref name="nikiet.ru">Template:Cite web</ref> From 1986 to 1998 Adamov directed NIKIET, a Russian state nuclear research and design institute.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2005 he was arrested in Bern, Switzerland, on fraud charges. The arrest was made at the request of the United States. The United States accused Adamov of diverting up to US$9 million which the United States Department of Energy gave Russia to help improve security at its nuclear facilities. Extradition requests were filed first by the United States and then by Russia, which has protested about the move by the United States. Adamov was finally extradited to Russia. The move was widely covered as a successful ploy by the Russian government to prevent Adamov from telling US authorities state secrets that he knew.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2008 Adamov was convicted in Russia of abuse of office and defrauding the Russian government of some $31 million in US aid funds intended for security upgrades for aging nuclear reactors.
On 20 February 2008 he was convicted of fraud and misuse of power by the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow and sentenced to 5.5 years of imprisonment.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
He was released from jail when his sentence was suspended by a higher-level court on 17 April 2008.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Awards and decorations
- Order of the Badge of Honour (1982)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Honoured Worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation (11 October 1995)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"<ref name="nikiet.ru" />
- Order of Tomsk Glory (6 May 2022)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- State Prize of the Russian Federation in science and technology for 2023 (10 June 2024)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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