He was a Soviet physicist who is considered the father of the Soviet atomic bomb.
He was born in 1904 in St. Petersburg to a prominent family in the Russian Empire. His father was a newspaper publisher and his mother an actress.
In 1940, his father was convicted and sent to the gulag, where he remained until the end of his life.
Little Yulii was raised by a governess.
He went to study electrical engineering and physics at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, from which he graduated in 1925.
In 1928, he received a doctorate from Cambridge.
After returning to Russia, he began working with explosives.
During World War II, he developed ammunition.
After the end of the war, Russia intended to develop nuclear weapons, and he was put in charge.
He chose his secret laboratory, which was an abandoned monastery. This place remained secret until the fall of the Soviet Union.
In 1949 he completed the first Soviet nuclear bomb.
Until he was 88 years old, he supervised scientific research and received many awards for his work.
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