Yury Aleksandrovich Zakharov (; 30 March 1938 – 23 July 2024) was a Soviet and Russian chemist and academic, Rector of

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from 1978 to 2005.

Life and career

Zakharov was born in

Anzhero-Sudzhensk Anzhero-Sudzhensk () is a town in the Kuznetsk Basin in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located to the north of the oblast's administrative center of Kemerovo and to the east of the Tom River, on the route of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Population: ...

. Zakharov graduated from

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in 1960. Ph.D. in Chemistry,KemSU OnLine , Chairs , Chemical Faculty , Chair of Chemistry of Solids
Professor. He was the author of numerous papers on

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.E. P. Surovoi, Yu. A. Zakharov, L. N. Bugerko, and L. I. Shurygina, Autocatalysis of the Photolysis of Thallium Azide http://www.maikonline.com/maik/showArticle.do?auid=VAF7LSFZD3L. T. Bugaenko, Yu. A. Zakharov, S. M. Ryabykh, D. G. Yakubik, RADIATsIONNO-KhIMIChESKAYa STABIL'NOST' IONNYKh I IONNO-MOLEKULYaRNYKh KRISTALLO

/ref>B. P. Aduev, É. D. Aluker, G. M. Belokurov, Yu. A. Zakharov and A. G. Krechetov, Explosive decomposition of heavy-metal azides, https://doi.org/10.1134%2F1.558931 Zakharov was a member of Unity (Russian political party), Unity (now

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) from 2000. In 2005 he quit the post of Rector, when he was indicted on bribery charges.See an official commentary of Federal Security Service of Russian Federation at (in Russian) Zakharov died on 23 July 2024, at the age of 86.В Кемерово умер выдающийся химик Юрий Захаров

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