Yury Zakharov
{{Short description|University academic administrator (1938–2024)}}
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Yury Aleksandrovich Zakharov ({{Langx|ru|Юрий Александрович Захаров}}; 30 March 1938 – 23 July 2024) was a Soviet and Russian chemist and academic, Rector of Kemerovo State University from 1978 to 2005.
Life and career
Zakharov was born in Anzhero-Sudzhensk.
Zakharov graduated from Tomsk State University in 1960. Ph.D. in Chemistry,[http://mmedia2.kemsu.ru/chairs/chemistry/fb_chem.xsql.en KemSU OnLine | Chairs | Chemical Faculty | Chair of Chemistry of Solids] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050911014051/http://mmedia2.kemsu.ru/chairs/chemistry/fb_chem.xsql.en |date=September 11, 2005 }} Professor.
He was the author of numerous papers on solid-state chemistry.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 KRISTALLOV [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231903/http://www.maik.ru/abstract/highen/99/highen5_99p331abs.htm]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 (now United Russia) 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 {{cite web|url=http://www.fsb.ru/smi/ufsb/2004/040812-3.html |title=КОММЕНТАРИИ ОФИЦИАЛЬНЫХ ПРЕДСТАВИТЕЛЕЙ УФСБ - Федеральная служба безопасности РФ |access-date=December 22, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041222233826/http://www.fsb.ru/smi/ufsb/2004/040812-3.html |archive-date=December 22, 2004 }} (in Russian)
Zakharov died on 23 July 2024, at the age of 86.[https://rossaprimavera.ru/news/b386c8ce В Кемерово умер выдающийся химик Юрий Захаров] {{in lang|ru}}
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