Ashot Sarkisov

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Arakelovich and the family name is Sarkisov.

Ashot Sarkisov
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Native name	Ашот Аракелович Сарки́сов
Personal details
Born	({{{1}}}--{{{3}}}) Tashkent
Nationality	Russian
Residence	Russia
Alma mater	Felix Dzerzhinsky Higher Naval Engineering School Leningrad State University

Ashot Arakelovich Sarkisov (Russian: Ашот Аракелович Сарки́сов; born 30 January 1924 in Tashkent) is a Russian scientist who has worked with nuclear submarine technology, nuclear safety and decommissioning of nuclear facilities.

Early years

Ashot Sarkisov was born to an Armenian father Arakel Ovanesovich Sarkisov (1881–1959) and Russian mother Evgenia Bogdanovna (1896–1987).

Career

Sarkisov entered the Felix Dzerzhinsky Higher Naval Engineering School in 1941, then served in the army during the war and resumed his studies in 1945. From 1948, he also studied at the Leningrad State University. He became Doctor of Technology in 1968. Since 1994, he has been a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and he received its Aleksandrov Gold Medal in 2007. Sarkisov retired from the navy as vice admiral.

One of his research interests has been dynamic nuclear power generation processes in marine applications, particularly the effects of severe impacts. Sarkisov has also worked with the decommissioning of nuclear facilities in Northwestern Russia, for which he was awarded the Global Energy Prize in 2014, along with Lars Gunnar Larsson.