Sergei Khrushchev

Khrushchev held several advanced engineering degrees. From the Bauman Moscow State Technical University he earned his doctoral degree, and he earned a Ph.D. from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In addition, he earned an M.S. degree with distinction from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. He also held an "occasional" professorship at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, meaning he was not a full-time professor (though he was for some time), but did teach there fairly often.

Prior to emigrating from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1991, Khrushchev worked in various high-level engineering positions. From 1968 to 1991, he served at the Control Computer Institute in Moscow, where he rose from section head to first deputy director in charge of research. From the years 1958 to 1968, Dr. Khrushchev worked as an engineer, then later as a deputy section head in charge of guidance systems for missile and space design. In this capacity, he worked on cruise missiles for submarine craft, military and research spacecraft, Moon vehicles, and the Proton space booster.

He often spoke to American audiences to share his memories of the "other" side of the Cold War. He told Scientific American that he had tried to see the Apollo 11 Moon landing through a telescope from Ukraine with a KGB officer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/apollo-moon-khrushchev/|title = The Moon Landing through Soviet Eyes: A Q&A with Sergei Khrushchev, son of former premier Nikita Khrushchev| website=Scientific American }} Khrushchev served as an advisor to The Cold War Museum.{{Cite web |url=http://www.coldwar.org/ |title=Cold War Museum website |access-date=2 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630084058/http://www.coldwar.org/ |archive-date=30 June 2014 |url-status=dead }} He was a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.

Khrushchev moved to the United States with his wife Valentina from the Soviet Union in 1991, to teach at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

On 12 July 1999, Khrushchev and his wife, Valentina, became citizens of the United States through naturalization.{{cite web|last1=Kerlin|first1=Janet|title=Sergei Khrushchev will take oath of U.S. citizenship on July 12|url=https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/1999-00/99-002.html|website=Brown University News|publisher=Brown University|access-date=15 June 2015}} Pronouncing ''This is a great country and it's an honor to live here.' at the citizenship ceremony. He retained his Russian citizenship, becoming a dual citizen.{{Cite web |last=X. Clines |first=Francis |date=July 11, 1999 |title=A Khrushchev Is Pledging New Allegiance |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/11/us/a-khrushchev-is-pledging-new-allegiance.html |website=NY Times}} Khrushchev waited more than the required five years of living in the U.S, fearful his U.S Citizenship would restrict visits to see his extended family. His three sons and three grandchildren still live in Moscow.

His son from a previous marriage, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, a Russian journalist, died on 22 February 2007, aged 47, from a stroke.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/us/sergei-khrushchev-dead.html | title=Sergei Khrushchev, Son of Former Soviet Premier, Dies at 84 | work=The New York Times | date=24 June 2020 | last1=Seelye | first1=Katharine Q. }}

Khrushchev died on 18 June 2020, at his home in Cranston, Rhode Island, at age 84, by suicide. The cause of death, as certified by the Rhode Island medical examiner's office, was a gunshot wound to the head. Cranston, Rhode Island police Major Todd Patalano said there were no signs of foul play, and the investigation by the police into his death was closed with no criminal charges filed on anyone.{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/d90c46fc9f205adc8d0782a7b89b76c4

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• Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Medal endowed by Alexandra Hildebrandt
• The Medal of the Labor Hero, the Order of Lenin, the Lenin Prize and the Prize of the Soviet Union's Council of Ministers.{{cite web|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/son-of-soviet-leader-khrushchev-dies-in-us-at-age-84/30679668.html|title=Son Of Soviet Leader Khrushchev Dies In U.S. At Age 84|date=19 June 2020|publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|access-date=1 March 2022}}

• Sergei Khrushchev, Khrushchev on Khrushchev: An Inside Account of the Man and His Era, by His Son, Sergei Khrushchev, edited and translated by William Taubman, Little, Brown, and Company, 1990, {{ISBN|0-316-49194-2}}
• Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, hardcover: {{ISBN|0-271-01927-1}}, softcover: {{ISBN|0-271-02170-5}}
• Sergei Khrushchev, Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Reformer, 1945–1964, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006, hardcover: {{ISBN|0-271-02861-0}}
• Sergei Khrushchev, Khrushchev in Power: Unfinished Reforms, 1961–1964. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2014, hardcover: {{ISBN|978-1626370326}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110202222356/http://www.watsoninstitute.org/contacts_detail.cfm?id=26 Professor Khrushchev's page and biographical sketch at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies – Archived page via Wayback Machine – 2 February 2011]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317025644/http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/exhibits/khrushchev/k2.html Photographs from exhibit at the Brown University Library – Khrushchev and Khrushchev: from the Kremlin to Brown University: Sergei Khrushchev]
• [http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-7/khrushchev1.html Interview with Dr. Khrushchev in conjunction with the CNN series Cold War]
• [https://www.npr.org/programs/npc/2001/011206.skhrushchev.html Webcast from the National Public Radio of December 2001 appearance of Dr. Khrushchev at the National Press Club]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20000118095040/http://www.salon.com/people/log/1999/06/24/khrushchev/index.html Interview with Dr. Khrushchev at Salon.com]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060213203020/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/latin_america/july-dec97/cuba_10-16.html Transcript of an October 1997 discussion on the Cuban Missile Crisis on the PBS program Newshour, in which Dr. Khrushchev was one of the speakers]
• [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3996/is_200110/ai_n8985890 Review of Dr. Khrushchev's book Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower in the Fall 2001 issue of the journal Demokratizatsiya] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080417054603/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3996/is_200110/ai_n8985890 |date=17 April 2008 }}

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